At long last, there's a new king of Rocket League. Cloud9 (Gimmick, Squishy, Torment) has dethroned Team Dignitas, who had won the past two championships. For the first time since Season 1 in 2016, a North American team has the rightful cla...

The Rocket League World Championships are three days long, and the middle day is the one that feels most eminently unfair. On Sunday, someone will be crowned champion. On Friday, the worst possible result in this double elimination tourname...

The first day of Rocket League's Season 6 RLCS tournament featured six matches. All six of them went to a fifth deciding game in the best-of-five series. No underdog went down without a fight, no favorite convinced everyone it's the stronge...

It's time for the biggest spectacle in Rocket League again. Rocket League esports has fallen into a pattern of squeezing two RLCS seasons into every calendar year; this game that's only three years old is already heading into the final...

Psyonix has been building toward cross-platform parties for more than a year now, but there have been plenty of bumps along the way. The newest development has the long-awaited integration pushed back at least a few more months. In its road...

Playing real-life Rocket League doesn't have to be as expensive as buying a few cars and knocking around a giant soccer ball. But, other options aren't necessarily cheap. Hot Wheels has come up with an officially-licensed alternative. ...

For the longest time, experience points did not matter in Rocket League. They simply existed to make the cumulative numbers go higher and higher. XP wasn't really attached to anything other than a rough estimate of how long someone had spen...

Rocket League is currently in its sixth season of competitive esports. The Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) is a grueling five-week gauntlet where every team plays every other squad in their region. Then, the top six square off in t...

This morning Sony did the unthinkable. After over a year of denying requests for cross-play between the PS4 and other console competitors like Xbox One and Switch, even going so far as to justify the lack of a feature because "PlayStation i...

Rocket League's long-awaited cross-play party system (called RocketID) has suffered an unfortunate delay. Originally announced alongside the reveal of its summer update roadmap, developer Psyonix has pushed back the feature to ensure a smoo...

Season 5 of RLCS ended on the highest possible note. The two most dominant sqauds -- Team Dignitas and NRG -- faced off in the Grand Finals. It's a double elimination tournament, and Dignitas was technically the underdog since it had alrea...

Psyonix has finally implemented the long-awaited Rocket Pass, which is a sort of event subscription for earning cosmetic items through gameplay. The closest analog is probably Fortnite's Battle Pass. It's Rocket League's way of making level...

Rocket League has existed in its current state for more than three years now, and developer Psyonix has stayed mostly hands-off with the minutiae of how everything works. It's nearly the exact same game that launched in July 2015. That...

To the untrained eye, Rocket League is always the same regardless of how many people are playing. One-on-one, two-on-two, three-on-three -- it's all cars deftly knocking a ball around in hopes that it goes into a goal. "Soccer but with...

For the second straight year, Rocket League is taking advantage of the summer break between RLCS seasons to hold a high-profile doubles tournament. The NBC Universal Open is interesting in that 2v2 is Rocket League's most-pla...

Rocket League players on Xbox will soon be able to trade money -- or, at least Rocket League's in-game equivalent to real-world money. Key trading will be implemented on Xbox "within the next several days," according to Psyonix. This n...

Competitive Rocket League was at its all-time best at the end of Season 5's RLCS in June. The deciding game of the Grand Finals saw Team Dignitas score the go-ahead goal with four seconds left. Then, NRG somehow managed to keep the bal...

Rocket League just celebrated its birthday with a big shindig at Petco Park, the home of baseball's San Diego Padres. As a party favor for everyone, Psyonix is giving out more free in-game items. As part of its second extensive partner...

Rocket League's celebrating its third birthday by throwing things back to the origins of the game. Rocket League was originally called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars and it was played on a slightly different fiel...

Psyonix is quite literally shifting the pitch for Rocket League's birthday. To celebrate the game's upcoming third anniversary since its launch, there's going to be new playlist with a drastic overhaul to the way the field looks. It's a thr...

A non-negligible percentage of the hardcore Rocket League community are obsessed over cosmetic item drops. They're the players who collect certified and painted variants of free items. They're the players who spend $1 to open every cra...

Rocket League is about to dip its toes into the Mesozoic. Or, at least the scientific recreation of the Mesozoic. Specifically, the Jurassic Era. Okay, you know where this is going. Jurassic Park. It's Jurassic Park. Later this month,...

The defending Rocket League champions will try to win back-to-back titles at the RLCS Season 5 World Championships while competing under a new name. After spending the entire season as part of the Gale Force Esports organization, the s...

Psyonix has just clued its players into what the next few months of Rocket League will look like. The summer's going to be busy, as Psyonix finally implements some things it has been talking about for the better part of a year. The big...

Last year's release of Star Wars Battlefront II seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Not even a week after the game was on store shelves, a bunch of politicians were looking into whether or not the loot boxes contained within...