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Rocket League Sideswipe

From the makers of Rocket League, car soccer has been reimagined for mobile devices with Rocket League Sideswipe! Get in the game with the intuitive touch controls. It's as simple as putting the ball…

December 3, 2021 | 11:27 EST

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Rocket League Sideswipe Tips & Beginner's Guide

Six years after the release of Rocket League, we finally have the closest thing to a possible sequel in Rocket League Sideswipe. Sideswipe takes the massively successful Rocket League formula and…

December 3, 2021 | 06:06 EST

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Batman is Returning to Rocket League for In-Game Event

Rocket League has been out for six years, but it's a pretty big deal still. Not as big as it used to be, but even small, regular events like this one will affect a lot of people, over 75 million…

October 15, 2021 | 09:22 EDT

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Ghostbusters Come to Rocket League in 'Haunted Hallows' Event

The Rocket League Haunted Hallows event will be launching tomorrow, bringing some iconic Ghostbusters items to the game. And yes, you can unlock the iconic Ecto-1 vehicle — but you're going to have…

October 19, 2020 | 01:47 EDT

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Rocket League On Steam Now Requires An Epic Games Account

After the recent September update, Rocket League now requires you to have an Epic Games account when you're playing it on Steam. If you don't have one, it'll prompt you to create one before you can…

September 17, 2020 | 09:54 EDT

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Rocket League Free-To-Play Release Date and EGS Coupon Revealed

The Rocket League free-to-play release date and details have finally been unveiled by Psyonix, giving us a good look at what we can expect when this vehicle-based soccer game switches to a new…

September 15, 2020 | 02:43 EDT

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Rocket League Won't Require PS Plus or Nintendo Switch Online

Rocket League PS Plus and Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions will not be required to play the game when it switches to a free-to-play format in a forthcoming update. "PlayStation Plus on…

September 2, 2020 | 02:37 EDT

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Rocket League Shared Inventory Won't Share Share DLC Across Devices

The Rocket League Shared Inventory is a pretty cool new development to allow for cross-platform enhancements, but there's a hitch — not all of your DLC is going to be available on every platform. If…

August 12, 2020 | 03:32 EDT

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75 Million People Played Rocket League in Its First Five Years

Today marks the five-year anniversary of Rocket League and the developers have released some pretty impressive stats about the game. Believe it or not, there have been more than 75 million people…

July 7, 2020 | 02:55 EDT

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Rocket League Blueprint Update Arrives This December

The Rocket League Blueprint Update is on the way, bringing some big changes to the game's cosmetic systems. Players will be getting a boatload of free content, and the Item Shop will be opening up…

November 22, 2019 | 01:00 EST

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Psyonix Drops Info About Rocket League Blueprints

Psyonix has revealed more information about Blueprints, the upcoming replacement for Rocket League's Crate loot box system. Blueprints will replace Crates sometime next month and will change the way…

November 6, 2019 | 03:00 EST

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Spooky Rocket League Update Coming October 14th

A new update is coming to multiplayer arena ball-'em-up Rocket League. The October update promises some suitably spooky shenanigans, as well as some quality-of-life updates. It'll hit all platforms…

October 9, 2019 | 05:39 EDT

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Rocket League Gets New Blueprint System In December

Back in August, Psyonix revealed its intention to remove loot crates from Rocket League. Now, the developer has released some information about the system that will be replacing Crates. Going forward…

October 2, 2019 | 05:58 EDT

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Rocket League Loot Boxes Are Being Removed

Rocket League will no longer have real money loot crates available for purchase, later this year. The Rocket League loot boxes were introduced in September 2016, and have included cosmetics players…

August 6, 2019 | 05:09 EDT

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Rocket League Review Bombed Following Epic Games Acquisition of Psyonix

Yesterday we reported the acquisition of Psyonix by Epic Games, as part of Epic's campaign to establish dominance in the PC gaming ecosystem, which has been paved largely with exclusive deals. As…

May 2, 2019 | 10:21 EDT

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[Updated] It's Settled: Rocket League Not Epic Exclusive Coming After Epic Acquires Psyonix

Update: The original version of this story stated that Rocket League would become an Epic Exclusive based on statements that strongly implied that. Epic Games has since released a statement…

May 1, 2019 | 05:30 EDT

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Rocket League Loot Boxes Can No Longer Be Opened In Belgium and The Netherlands

Rocket League loot boxes can no longer be opened in Belgium and The Netherlands in a continuation of the war between government regulation of in-game microtransactions and game developers. The most…

April 18, 2019 | 10:50 EDT

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Rocket League Friends Update Releases February 23

Today, Psyonix announced that the Rocket League friends update, which makes friends lists and parties cross-platform, will be available on February 23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m35zFlZyU4…

February 12, 2019 | 07:02 EST

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Rocket League's Rocket ID Delayed Until 2019, PS4 Cross-Play May Be Coming

The bad news is that Rocket League's upcoming cross-platform party feature is being delayed until 2019 according to a news post on the game's official website. The good news? They're hopeful about…

October 18, 2018 | 05:53 EDT

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Rocket League Developers Next Of Many To Reveal Loot Box Drop Rates

While the heat around Loot Boxes seems to be cooling off it's still clear that many players, companies, and even governments want better clarity on what your chances are of earning an item are as you…

July 24, 2018 | 06:00 EDT

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Rocket League to Receive Cross-Platform Play, Leveling Updates, And More

Everyone's favorite advanced sports soccer game, Rocket League, is going to get some significant changes over the summer, including quite a few new and interesting features. While the full list of…

May 13, 2018 | 06:46 EDT

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Rocket League has Passed 1 Million Physical Sales

The Psyonix-developed rocket car powered eSports title Rocket League has been selling like hotcakes since its release as a free title for PlayStation Plus subscribers alongside PC. The game, made by…

April 13, 2017 | 08:30 EDT

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Rocket League Getting New Dropshot Mode

Rocket League developer Psyonix has announced that a new mode will be coming to the popular rocket-powered soccer game as part of a free update. This mode is called 'Dropshot' and is the latest is an…

March 14, 2017 | 11:30 EDT

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Rocket League Toy Cars are Coming!

In many ways, Psyonix's football racer Rocket League is the gift that keeps on giving. Released back in 2015, the deceptively simplistic and (also deceptively) hard to master eSports game has managed…

February 5, 2017 | 09:30 EST

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Rocket League's DLC pack Aquadome launches today

Rocket League started as a small indie project from experienced game developers and is now a gaming phenomenon. Psyonix continues to push more DLC for the soccer meets RC car game. The developer…

October 4, 2016 | 05:17 EDT

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Rocket League AquaDome Update Details

A brand new update is coming to Rocket League, and with it, a new map, new cars, and new achievements andtrophies, among other things. This update releases for free across all platforms on October…

September 30, 2016 | 07:24 EDT

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Gret is ready for some high-octane fun with Rocket League, the popular online multiplayer game where you and your friends play a friendly game of soccer with cars! The goal of Rocket League is…

September 18, 2016 | 03:44 EDT

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Psyonix is Coming Down on Toxic Players in Rocket League

A few days after Rocket League developer Psyonix released the new Rumble mode to the public and introduced players on the MacOS and Linux to soccer with rocket-powered cars, the developer has…

September 18, 2016 | 10:37 EDT

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New Game Mode to be Added to Rocket League in September

Rocket League's success is indisputable. Since its release in 2015, the action-sport mashup title created quite the sensation. Part of its success comes from the stream of content updates Psyonix…

August 14, 2016 | 12:48 EDT

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Rocket League Cross-Play Needs Sony Approval

Psyonix, developer of the breakout indie hit Rocket League, is hovering its hand over a big red button. This button will allow Rocket League cross-play between Playstation 4 and Xbox One servers!…

July 21, 2016 | 12:47 EDT

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Rocket League to Implement New Crate System

On Friday, July 8 2016, leaked Rocket League assets were posted in a Rocket League forum. These assets, which can be seen below, are of an apparently planned crate system for Steam, similar to what…

July 11, 2016 | 10:46 EDT

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Humble June Monthly Bundle Released

Its the first Friday of a month, so its time for the next Humble Monthly Bundle! This month's bundle includes car soccer, pub crawling, survival, and planetary destruction. Anyone who bought the…

June 3, 2016 | 04:26 EDT

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Rocket League Has Sold Over 5 Million Units

Nobody would've expected the follow-up to Psyonix's RC-cars soccer game Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars to be an enormous success, but Rocket League has managed to become a staple of…

June 2, 2016 | 10:46 EDT

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Upcoming Rocket League Update Will Expand Quick Chat Options

The developers behind the hit indie game Rocket League are planning a huge update for this June, and in a recent post on the Rocket League website, we learned the first details towards what that…

May 19, 2016 | 09:22 EDT

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Euro Truck Sim 2 and Rocket League Cross-Promote

  Rocket League developer Psyonix and Euro Truck Simulator 2 developer SCS Software will be doing a cross promotion by adding cosmetic items to each other's games according to news posts on SCS…

April 26, 2016 | 09:10 EDT

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Rocket League Basketball mode coming next week

Rocket League is getting a brand new game mode next week as fans can go from playing soccer with rocket powered cars to playing basketball. This game mode was originally teased in a tweet at the…

April 21, 2016 | 11:40 EDT

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Rocket League's Basketball Mode Is Coming In April

Psyonix's continued effort to add every ball game known to man to their competitive RC-car sports game Rocket League continues, and this time basketball is set to make its debut at some point in…

March 30, 2016 | 08:00 EDT

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[Updated] Microsoft Opens The Door For Cross-Console Play

Update: Game Informer was able to talk to Vice President of Publisher and Developer Relations for Sony, Adam Boyes, at GDC about Microsoft's announcement on cross-network play and he had this to say…

March 14, 2016 | 08:14 EDT

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Rocket League Championship Announced

While Rocket League's formula already seems like it was tailor-made for the esports scene, the frantic RC-car soccer game didn't get an official tournament (outside of ranked play and some matches by…

March 3, 2016 | 11:43 EST

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Rocket League is Coming to Retail

Pysonix’s Rocket League, which has sold over four million copies so far, is coming to retail later this year in partnership with 505 Games who will be publishing the title at the retail level. The…

February 29, 2016 | 10:17 EST

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The Batmobile is coming to Rocket League

Rocket League is now available on PC, PlayStation 4 and most recently last week Xbox One allowing nearly all players to get in on the rocket powered fun. Some recent events that we've seen in Rocket…

February 26, 2016 | 10:20 EST

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Rocket League Season 2 Starts, New Patch Adds Rocket Labs

With the first competitive season for Psyonix's chaotic RC Soccer game Rocket League officially coming to and end, the developer has released an update for the game. This patch, which carries version…

February 14, 2016 | 10:06 EST

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Rocket League Update Coming This Month

Rocket League is getting a new update this month that includes a new mode called Rocket Labs, which allows players to test out new maps before release on prototype arena layouts. Essentially, players…

February 3, 2016 | 08:20 EST

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Rocket League Season 1 Ending Soon

The first season for the RC-soccer game Rocket League will officially come to an end with the upcoming February update. Players who participated in ranked games will be getting some swanky rewards to…

January 18, 2016 | 08:00 EST

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Game Awards 2015: Rocket League Coming to Xbox One in 2016

Rocket League had an incredible launch on the Playstation 4 as one of the free games with Playstation Plus but gamers have been wondering if the Soc-Car phenomenon would be hitting the Microsoft…

December 3, 2015 | 11:39 EST

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Rocket League is getting a Portal crossover

Starting on the first of December you will be able to use Portal customization items in Rocket League. The items that are unlocked in this update are also completely free so all you need to do is…

November 28, 2015 | 01:33 EST

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Rocket League Christmas Event Details

Psyonix' smash hit Rocket League is getting a special Christmas event to celebrate the holiday season in style. Starting on December 14, players of the wacky competitive RC soccer game can look…

November 26, 2015 | 06:17 EST

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Rocket League Announces New DLC, Confirms No PS3 Version

Today Psyonix announced a new paid DLC coming to Rocket League in December called Chaos Run, which includes a host of new cosmetic items for you to enjoy. Also, the trend continues in that all Rocket…

November 18, 2015 | 04:57 EST