One of the best games of the past decade is going free-to-play today. As if that weren't incentive enough to check it out, Epic's upping the ante a little bit. Anyone who claims Rocket League on the Epic Games Store will be gifted a $1...

Back in July, Psyonix announced that its wildly popular socc-car game Rocket League would be going free-to-play. At the time there was only a vague "in the future" release window. Today, Psyonix announced on Twitter that the go-live date fo...

A few weeks ago, Psyonix pushed back the end of Rocket League's current competitive season to an undetermined future date so that the new season can coincide with the next update. Now it's clear why there's a need for a slight delay. Rocket...

Rocket League turns five this month, the age where children go to kindergarten and start playing Fortnite. In that time, every person on earth has scored four Rocket League goals -- or so the averages say. Psyonix released some big-ass...

Competitive Rocket League took a big hit today as major esports organization Cloud9 released its roster and left the game. After nearly three years in Rocket League, Cloud9 has called it quits. What's particularly notable about C9's ru...

There's nothing more dangerous in Rocket League than getting caught out by a quick ricochet or redirect that's straight on your net. It happens sometimes, and you just chalk it up to cheeky bounces and overaggressing. This is a game t...

Psyonix has made the prudent decision to cancel the upcoming Season 9 Rocket League World Championship live event in Dallas, Texas because of health concerns stemming from the global coronavirus outbreak. The RLCS Season 9 LAN was scheduled...

In 2001, the Seattle Mariners signed Ichiro Suzuki from the Japanese major leagues, a landmark international transfer at the time. It paid immediate dividends. The Mariners were transformed into world-beaters, tying the record for regular s...

Psyonix has had a week. Last Wednesday, December 4, Rocket League received an update that did away with the blind crate (loot box) microtransaction system, in favor of a new blueprint setup that told players exactly what they were gett...

The audience in Rocket League is usually pretty innocuous. It's a bunch of faceless egg-shaped dudes bobbing up and down in silent approval. It is not tough to perform under this sort of pressure. Soon, those eggs will be replaced wit...

Psyonix is doing away with Rocket League's gambling-like microtransactions for something more akin to crafting. Sort of. In August, Psyonix announced that it's nixing Rocket League's lottery-focused crate system -- essentially just loot box...

Psyonix is doing away with Rocket League's crate system, which is better known by the industry-standard term "loot box." It's a form of randomized microtransaction -- in-game gambling that costs $1 per crate and rewards the player with a my...

In a surprise announcement this afternoon, Rocket League creator Psyonix confirmed its plans to join Epic Games. The deal is expected to go through "near the end of May to early June 2019," and while the developer has answered several immed...

Rocket League's third Rocket Pass launches on April 17, and it'll be accompanied by a new feature that amplifies its appeal. Psyonix is introducing a Challenges system to Rocket League, and it makes perfect sense for the players who are try...

Ooh, can you feel it in the air? The Boys of Summer are almost back. The dog days of spring (training) will soon turn into another Opening Day where every team is a contender. That, in turn, will give way to the dog days of summer when...

After nearly two years of sitting on the bench, Anthony's back in the Rocket League game! Why? I can finally start a cross-platform party with friends who have expressed interest in playing with me. As of now, the system is live and ready t...

Rocket League's ELeague tournament kicked off today, and it features the top eight teams from Season 6 RLCS -- which just wrapped up a few weekends ago. ELeague is in Atlanta, which means all those European squads (and one Oceania squad) ha...

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...