Tag: Psyonix
News Rocket League Ditches the Ball for Combative Knockout Bash Event
Ballsy
Arguably the most important part of the Rocket League experience is its ball – after all, those little remote-controlled cars have very little to do unless it’s guiding a giant sphere into an enormous net. Knockout Bash, a new in-game event launching from 27th April through 10th May, is especially bold, then: there is no ball at all. The...
News Rocket League Prepares for Turkey and Football with NFL Fan Pass
Thank you, Thanksgiving
Rocket League is reopening the tailgate this week, ahead of Thanksgiving’s football fiesta. Starting from 23rd November, the NFL Fan Pass will be available once more from the release’s Item Store, bundling in all of the previously released crossover content – as well as a brand-new set of decals. It’ll set you back...
News Rocket League Takes a Nice Shot with the BMW M240i
Coming this week
Rocket League, once a scrappy online multiplayer game designed as a successor to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars, quickly evolved into a gaming phenomenon – and that’s why you now see brand crossovers, like this BMW one. Starting from 4th November, the BMW M240i will be available for a “limited time” within...
News Rocket League Goes Gotham in Haunted Hallows Event
They ain't jokin'
Soccer, cars… And now DC Comics? For its annual Halloween event, Psyonix has paired up with Warner Bros to bring a Batman-themed gameplay mode to Rocket League. Inspired by ordinary Rumble, the new Gotham City Rumble – available now – will see you using power-ups inspired by Batman and many of his enemies, including the likes...
News NASCAR, F1 Speed into Rocket League Season 3 Next Month
Gotta go fast
Rocket League is big business these days, which means it gets its pick of brand partnerships. With its upcoming Season 3 update – rolling out on 7th April – it’s partnering with two titans of the track: F1 and NASCAR. There’ll be new bundles inspired by each motorsport launching in May, but you can get a glimpse at the...
News NFL Super Bowl LV Touches Down in Rocket League Next Week
Into the End Zone
As the big matchup between Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs nears, Rocket League is getting in on the action. Beginning 2nd February through 8th February, Pysonix is rolling out a brand-new in-game event: the NFL Super Bowl LV Celebration. This is anchored by an entirely new game mode,...
News PS Plus Members Can Score Free Bonus Content in Rocket League
Nice shot
As with most free-to-play games on the PlayStation 4, there’s a complimentary content drop for Rocket League now that it’s shed its asking fee. The exclusive add-on for members includes: Blue Notch Wheels, Blue Smoke Boost, Blue Rocks Trail, and the Trimpact BL Player Banner. You can claim it through here, assuming you have an active...
News PS Plus Will Not Be Required for Rocket League Soon
Breaking down walls
You’ll no longer need a PlayStation Plus subscription to play Rocket League online when the game goes free-to-play imminently. While you need an active membership to play premium franchises like Call of Duty and FIFA online, the platform holder allows free-to-play titles such as Fortnite to be enjoyed at no additional cost. And...
News Rocket League Goes Free-to-Play This Summer
Get all the DLC at no extra cost
Rocket League recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, and now the next step for this incredibly popular, vehicular take on football is going free-to-play. Psyonix will ditch the price tag later this summer as part of the game's biggest update yet. This patch also includes overhauled menus and improvements to...
Feature Rocket League: A Celebration to Five Years
Calculated!
Rocket League celebrated its fifth anniversary on Wednesday, and we can hardly believe it. Introducing many players to Soccar back in 2015, this once-indie game has become a defining multiplayer experience for PlayStation 4 and, according to Psyonix’s latest figures, an incredible 75 million players have registered since launch...
News Rocket League Is Celebrating Fifth Anniversary with In-Game Event, Starts Tomorrow
Here's to another five
Rocket League married arcade driving to physics-based footie nearly five years ago on PlayStation 4, and it took the community by storm. The rest is history, and the game is still going strong as ever thanks to excellent post-launch support. To help celebrate the game's upcoming milestone, developer Psyonix is holding a...
News Beat Saber Crosses Paths with Rocket League, DLC Available Now in Both Games
Rocket beats
Two of PlayStation 4's finest indie titles have crossed over, and it seems like a pretty good fit. Rocket League has accrued quite the soundtrack over the years, and so it makes sense that some of these songs make their way into the popular PSVR rhythm title, Beat Saber. A new song pack for the game is available now for £7.39 / $8.99,...
News Stranger Things Turns Rocket League Upside Down in Halloween Event
Scoops Ahoy
Rocket League has attracted some huge crossovers with other entertainment icons, and that trend isn't changing any time soon. The evergreen PlayStation 4 classic holds a Halloween event each year, and this time it's taking a trip to Hawkins, Indiana. That's right, a Stranger Things event is taking place in the soccar game. One of the...
News Rocket League's Blueprints Will Replace Randomised Loot Boxes in December Update
Psyonix reveals new monetisation system
Earlier in the year, Psyonix pledged to remove loot boxes from the ever popular Rocket League in a bid to make its microtransactions fairer. The randomised rewards are to be replaced with a system in which you'll be able to see exactly what you're buying before you put any money on the table. Today, the...
News Rocket League Is Ditching Paid, Randomised Loot Boxes
Nice shot!
Rocket League sure has gone through a lot of changes, hasn't it? Since it exploded in popularity right off the bat in 2015, developer Psyonix has been admirably committed to improving and expanding the quirky sports game. At one point, that included the introduction of Crates -- paid loot boxes you had to buy keys to open. For some, they...
News Rocket League's Radical Summer Event Brings 80s Themed Cars, Items, and Modes
Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, and more represented
Rocket League is one of PlayStation 4's less talked about service games, but it's been brilliantly supported over the years. Psyonix has provided near constant updates to its crazy game about cars playing football, with all kinds of themed events, DLC, new modes, and more. It's just unveiled the...
News Rocket League Developer Psyonix Acquired by Epic Games
Deal to close within a month
Epic Games, the company behind the Unreal Engine and, of course, Fortnite, is set to acquire Rocket League studio Psyonix. The developer has announced the news today via its Rocket League blog, which you can read through the link. The deal, which will be finalised by the start of June, will presumably mean Epic will...
News Rocket League's Friends Update Allows You to Create Cross-Platform Parties
Everyone's invited
Last month, Rocket League joined Fortnite as one of PlayStation 4's only games to support cross-console compatibility. Psyonix's evergreen arcade game has featured cross-platform play from the beginning between PS4 and PC, but now, players on any system can play together. With this new game update, it'll also be much easier to do...
News Cross-Console Play Arrives in Rocket League on PS4
Compete against all other systems
Remember cross-console play? It was a hot button topic in the gaming industry for all of five minutes, until Sony announced a Fortnite beta and no one ever mentioned it again. Well, Rocket League is the second game to join the programme, meaning that from today, players on “PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox...
The Game Awards 2018 Rocket League's Next DLC Pack Features McLaren Cars
Taking things up a gear
You know Rocket League is a big deal when it partners with a leading car manufacturer. The next DLC for the hit arcade football game is set to feature McLaren, specifically the McLaren 570S line of cars. You can take a look in the above trailer. The car pack is available now on PS4. Will you be picking up this DLC for Rocket...
News Even Rocket League Has Something Lined Up for The Game Awards 2018
The gang's all here
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know full well that The Game Awards is right around the corner. On 6th December, Geoff Keighley will walk on stage and kick off his show, which combines the glitz and glamour of an awards ceremony with the relentless announcements and reveals of an E3 press conference. It seems like...
News Rocket League Delays Cross-Play Party System into Next Year
PS4 about to get an invite?
Rocket League already supports cross-play in various permutations across a number of different platforms, but Psyonix’s big priority has been building a party system which will work across devices. Unimaginatively dubbed RocketID, this feature was set to launch later in the year on non-PlayStation platforms at least,...
News Rocket League Cross-Play Seems Likely on the PS4
Open goal
Now that Sony’s opened its doors to cross-play on the PlayStation 4, another title seems likely to jump aboard. Rocket League, which is one of the games that the Japanese giant’s previous policy blocked, is looking like it’ll support players across Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PS4 soon, as
News Rocket League's Fortnite Inspired Rocket Pass Kicks Off Next Week
Mavericks
Does anyone else feel like they need a degree to understand games these days? FIFA Ultimate Team has become borderline impenetrable with its set collecting systems, and now Rocket League – one of the simplest games on the planet – is adding a Fortnite-esque Rocket Pass model to its gameplay progression. Okay, so Rocket Pass 1 will run...
News Rocket League Anniversary Event Kicks Off Next Week on PS4
Happy birthday
Time sure does fly when you're smacking a giant ball around with rocket-propelled cars wearing hats. Rocket League is three years old this week, but its predecessor, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, is turning 10. As you might expect, Psyonix is looking to celebrate both birthdays with an in-game Anniversary Event...
News Well, There It Is - Jurassic World DLC Pack Stomps into Rocket League This Month
Hold onto your butts
Rocket League is no stranger to crossover content. You may remember a while back, when the DeLorean from Back to the Future became available in Psyonix's ever-popular arcade game, as well as the Batmobile from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Continuing its run of movie tie-ins
News Rocket League's Salty Shores Update Brings Summer Fun to PS4 Next Week
Beach party
Rocket League, the perennially popular arcade sports game, is getting another content update, and it's very much Summer themed. From 29th May, Salty Shores will be available as a free update to the game, and as usual, it brings with it a variety of new toys to play with. First and foremost is the new arena, which takes Rocket League to...
News Rocket League Raises the Bat Signal from 5th March
Animated series next?
Two classic Batmobiles are set to join Rocket League’s growing vehicular roster from 5th March, with the Christopher Nolan-era Tumbler and the iconic 1989 Tim Burton-era roadster both scheduled to be added to the title as part of the DC Super Heroes add-on pack. Of course, the DLC includes more than merely two new vehicles,...
E3 2017 Sony Seemingly Skips Rocket League Cross-Console Play
This will go down well
Whoever’s fielding interview questions for Sony at E3 2017 may want to work with the PR department to come up with a good response, because Rocket League is the latest game to support cross-console play between the Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC – but not the PlayStation 4. So why doesn’t PlayStation support...
News Dropshot Is Rocket League's Latest New Mode
Update drops next week
Psyonix is readying up its latest content update for its evergreen multiplayer smash Rocket League. The headline addition this time around is Dropshot, an all-new game type that introduces yet another way to pit rocket cars against a giant ball. The objective in this new mode is to use the ball to deal damage to segments of...
News Rocket League Runs in 4K at 60 Frames Per Second on PS4 Pro
Patch coming next week
One of the most played PlayStation 4 games is about to get a facelift, with Psyonix pledging PS4 Pro support for Rocket League starting 21st February. This is a full, native patch and not a Boost Mode improvement, meaning that the title will now run in (checkerboard) 4K at 60 frames-per-second across all arenas in...
News Holy Moly! Rocket League's Getting Hot Wheels DLC
Like, licensed Hot Wheels
Rocket League's rapid ascension from cult indie classic to mainstream monster could probably be marked by the addition of the Batmobile, but we reckon these Hot Wheels classics are arguably even cooler. Psyonix has announced that Bone Shaker and Twin Mill III are launching as DLC cars starting 21st February. They'll cost...
News Of Course Rocket League's Getting a Line of Toy Cars
OMG!
Back when we described Rocket League as the PlayStation 4's killer app in 2014 – long before #ColinWasRight, we simply have to snipe – we could never have imagined how popular it would actually go on to become. Well, here's a reminder that the release is no humble indie these days: it's getting a line of licensed toy cars. We're being...
News Rocket League Scores Custom Training Mode
Coming in the upcoming Fall update
Rocket League is truly a game that keeps on giving, and more than a year after its release, Psyonix is still releasing free content in the form of the Custom Training mode. This allows players to create their own training scenarios by choosing the difficulty, map, and whether you want to be a goalie or striker,...
News Rocket League Will Probably Score PS4 Pro Support
OMG! OMG!
A bit like when Psyonix pooled community interest in the PlayStation 4 release of Rocket League and we posted about how it absolutely had to happen because it would be the best thing since sliced bread, Psyonix now wants to know whether you want a PS4 Pro update for the car-soccer smash. Which, of course, you do, so we're glad that's...
News Rocket League Receives New Mode in Gigantic Update
Let's get ready to Rumble
We're now well over a year into Rocket League's life, and Psyonix doesn't appear to be slowing down on the post-launch support. The much-loved multiplayer game, still a firm favourite of yours truly, has just received its latest patch, and it's another big one, introducing new items, systems, and even an extra Rocket Labs...
News Rocket League's Free New PS4 Mode Is Party Focused
Rumble in the jungle
Rocket League's appeal has always been its purity, but with the core mechanics mastered, there's always room for a bit of madness. Rumble, which will be added for free in September, is a brand new mode which will bring a bit of chaos to the core formula in the form of power-ups. These include the ability to freeze the ball,...
News Rocket League's PS4-Xbox One Cross-Network Play Is Ready to Go
But the ball's still in Sony's court
Oh right, we'd forgotten about this. Those of you with really long memories will recall Microsoft suddenly changing its policy regarding cross-network play a few months back, putting Sony on the spot by suggesting that it wants Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players to play together. We're sure that the current...
News Rocket League to Receive Paid Crate System
Crates will only contain cosmetic items
After Reddit user TheSgtPunishment uncovered an image from Rocket League's source code suggesting that a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive-style crate system (in which players pay money in exchange for crates containing random items) would be coming to the game at some point, Psyonix's Vice-President Jeremy...
News Rocket League's Neo Tokyo Update Is Massive
GG, Psyonix
It seems that, to win the favour of gamers these days, ongoing support for your game is just as important as the game you launch. Psyonix knows this, and its post-release content drops and feature-adding patches have kept swathes of players happy since the seminal sports game launched last year. Rocket League's latest patch, version...
News Rocket League's Neo Tokyo Arena Says Konnichiwa to PS4
OMG! OMG! Wow
The environmental design in Rocket League has always been one of its understated assets, but it looks like its all-new Neo Tokyo arena will take things to the next level. Available for free from 20th June, this sweet looking stage is absolutely bursting with detail, and while there's nothing especially original about a neon-soaked...
News Rocket League Hoops Laces Its Hi-Tops in PS4 Patch
Net it now
Rocket League Hoops, the free basketball-inspired spin-off mode for Psyonix's future sports smash, is available now for free on the PlayStation 4. You should net the title's latest patch, v1.17, the moment that you boot up your console, which includes access to the new mode and arena. The update also includes support for all of the NBA...
News Rocket League Hoops Looks Like Another Slam Dunk
Find out what all the hoopla's about
Even games as good as Rocket League require fresh updates to keep their fanbase engaged, and it looks like Psyonix has struck gold yet again with the title's upcoming Hoops patch. The new mode – which basically turns the title into basketball with cars as opposed to football with cars – looks like a simple...
News Rocket League Races to Retail This Summer on PS4
OMG! Nice shot!
Remember a time before Rocket League? No, us neither. The addictive PlayStation 4 car-meets-soccer sim will take a shot at retail this summer, with 505 Games handling all of the headache-inducing distribution stuff. Imaginatively dubbed the Rocket League: Collector's Edition, the physical release will launch with the title's trio of...
News Psyonix Teases Basketball Mode for Rocket League
We're dribbling over this
Just when you thought that Rocket League couldn't get any better – after getting an Ice Hockey mode as well as the innovative Rocket Labs maps – Psyonix has gone and done it again, teasing a new Rocket League Hoops mode on its Twitter account. The tweet simply shows the above image, as well as the caption: "March...
News The, Er, Batmobile's Coming to Rocket League on PS4
Send a spotlight signal
When you move 10 million units, you tend to open a lot of doors for yourself. It's perhaps no major surprise that Rocket League will be adding the Batmobile from 8th March on the PlayStation 4. The supercharged vehicle will cost you just $1.99, and will come with three antenna flags – one apiece for Batman, Superman, and...
News New Rocket League Update Drops Next Month, Brings an End to Season One
Also adds loot
Psyonix has done an excellent job of keeping Rocket League fresh with new content and gameplay modifiers, and it looks like 2016 won't be an exception. On its Steam Community page, the San Diego-based team announced that the first season of competitive Rocket League will be brought to a close when a new update launches in February. If...
News Rocket League Rakes in Over $50 Million for Psyonix
Wow! Nice shot!
Psyonix will be celebrating Christmas with a three bird roast and those cool crackers that have gags inside them, because Rocket League's success has earned the indie outfit a whopping $50 million since launching in July. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the game only cost around $2 million to make, so the studio's...
News Portal Teleports to Rocket League with New Items
Not a lie
There's already a plethora of items to unlock in Game of the Year contender Rocket League, but developer Psyonix is still adding content. This time around, it's a bunch of Portal-themed items announced via the studio's Steam Community page, which have later been confirmed for the PlayStation 4 on the game's official subreddit. Nine...
News Rocket League's Winter Games Look Puckin' Awesome
Deck the balls
Rocket League loves a good seasonal celebration, and this Christmas it'll be feeling the festive spirit. Psyonix has announced on the PlayStation Blog that its Mutator Mashup playlist will soon be replaced by a cool mode named Snow Day, which will bring a chilly twist to the title's usual gameplay. Set to release on 14th December, you...
