Rocket League, the surprise hit from Psyonix, is one of the most entertaining, unique multiplayer games around. For multiplayer to work, you need a big audience, and that’s the Xbox One’s biggest hurdle for getting players into the game right now. Well, it was. Microsoft has announced that, as of 6:00 p.m. EST yesterday, Xbox One players will now be matched up not with just their Xbox...
Rocket League is huge. There’s no way that statement can be qualified as hyperbolic or an exaggeration. The game that debuted as a reboot or sequel of the poorly named yet still glorious Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars has ushered in a horde of happy and hungry users. Psyonix announced a new milestone achieved on Twitter yesterday. Rocket League has surpassed 15 million...
Are we at the point where we can call Rocket League the most successful indie game of all time? Psyonix’s popular monster-truck soccer game has racked up and impressive 14 million users, and aside from the obvious answer of Minecraft and a plucking of free mobile games, what else has put up numbers even close to that? Seriously, fill me in if you can. I’m drawing absolutely blanks here...
Psyonix has released V1.16 for the PlayStation 4 and PC versions of Rocket League. They explain the patch fully in their official patch notes, but they headline the big changes at the top. This patch will improve the way the ball bounces, adjust hitboxes “for several vehicles to bring outliers more inline with other Battle-Cars” and will bring the ESRB rating down from E10+ to E. Here...
That physical release of Rocket League we’ve all been waiting for finally has a release date, announced developer Psyonix and publisher 505 Games. Psyonix’s surprise hit soccer-car-mashup is set to hit US stores on July 5, while it’ll release in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on June 24. The physical release will come with four new vehicles and the three currently existing DLC...
Psyonix, the company behind the massively successful Rocket League, is looking to do other things. Speaking with Game Informer in the magazine’s latest issue, CEO Dave Hagewood explained that there’s a “massive backlog” of ideas the company is hoping to explore. Of course, they’re “all-in” on Rocket League. They’ll support that game as long as they can. But what about the other stuff...
Developer Psyonix Games has teased a seemingly bonkers new mode for Rocket League called Dunk House. It was announced earlier this month, though now we have a release window. They did so with a short clip in GIF form on Twitter, and they announced that, in spite of March being the month for basketball here in the States, the Madness would come in April. Just look at this. We have a...
Rocket League players on Xbox One will soon see a much bigger pool of opponents. Microsoft announced as part of [email protected]’s Game Developer’s Conference show that the game will allow its Xbox One players to play against those on PC. With the Xbox One version having, by far, the smallest pool of players to play with, that will broaden the community significantly and offer much more...
Despite its late arrival to the Xbox One platform, it looks like demand for Rocket League is still high, as over a million Xbox One players have taken to the field in less than a month since its release. Developer Psyonix made it official with the following tweet: YES! We have officially eclipsed more than 1 MILLION unique players on @Xbox One! Thank you very much for continuing to...
Do you consider yourself good when it comes to Rocket League? You may want to register for the upcoming championship series later this month. Twitch and Psyonix (developer of Rocket League) have announced the Official Rocket League Championship Series, or the RLCS. Registration begins on March 25, 2016, and the RLCS is set to last for three months. As it’s co-sponsored by Twitch, all...