What’s football without a little destruction? In its ongoing mission to become the world’s most realistic football simulation, Rocket League [official site] will next week add a new mode based around smashing holes in the opponent’s side of the arena. Dropshot mode will do away with traditional goals, instead having players bop the ball to smash holes in the other team’s side of the arena (a shiny new hexagonal one) so they can bop the ball through the holes to score. Here, have a look: … [visit site to read more]

Following the recent announcement that the sports cars of Rocket League [official site] are becoming toy cars, now developers Psyonix say they’re turning toy cars into Rocket League cars. Two Hot Weels cars are coming to Rocket League as paid DLC on February 21st, two souped-up sillycars which yeah, do look right at home there. … [visit site to read more]

Now, normally I’ve no interest in ‘merch’ but hannng on! Twelve sports cars from Rocket League [official site] are being merchified as wee pull-back-and-go toy cars, which look perfect for a game of tabletop Rocket League. Get creative with a few cardboard boxes and bing bong bangily boogily, you’ve got yourself a great game for all the family. Add some big lumps of metal to the front and use a wallnut for a ball and you’ve got yourself some snazzy Rocket League nutcrackers too. Build the cars into a Rube Goldberg machine and baby, you’ve got breakfast. … [visit site to read more]

I’ve seen some big numbers in my day–I’m not boasting, but check this biggun: 8008135–and while I’m generally cool and collected in the presence of big numbers, I did mutter “flipping heck!” at the belter I’ve just seen in the company of Rocket League [official site]. 25 million players have carballed, developers Psyonix announced today, racking up over a billion matches between them. Those are big numbers for any game, let alone the follow-up to a PS3-exclusive game about sentient cars playing football. Good numbers, you lot. I mean, I’ve known bigger numbers–80081357, for starters–but that’s still some great numbering. … [visit site to read more]

Valve capped off 2016 by revealing the year’s 100 highest-grossing games on Steam, which is a pretty interesting list. If you’ve been following Alec’s prolonged breakdown over the weekly charts you’ll not be shocked by revelations that Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are near the top, but you might not expect them to be joined by the likes of No Man’s Sky or the free-to-play Dota 2.

When I asked Alec if he fancied writing up this chart too, he began hissing “The Venga Bus is coming the Venga Bus IS coming the Venga Bus is coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa” so you get me and my GIFs instead. … [visit site to read more]

Black Friday 2016 is finally here, and it’s of course the biggest day for deals yet. We’ve rounded up the best below, so if you’re looking for great games or PC hardware, step inside.

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Smashing sportsballer Rocket League [official site] already supports custom levels in an unofficial and slightly fiddly way but will soon officially embrace them. Developers Psyonix have announced plans to add Steam Workshop support, meaning players will simple need to click a button on Steam then fire up the game to play in custom arenas. Who knows what you’ll find? A pretty new sportszone, maybe, or an obstacle course, a race, maybe even a nice little Sunday drive through the Cotswolds. … [visit site to read more]

“GET YOUR BOOTS ON!” you shout, making an exquisite football/car crossover pun that doesn’t work in America because they call the darn thing a “trunk”, “because Rocket League [official site] is getting a custom training mode!” … [visit site to read more]

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.>

I think by this point we’re all aware of the apocalyptic hellscape simulator as Rocket League [official site] y’know, the one where the fates of nations are decided by which ones can drive RC cars the best? Rocket League is really, really good. So good, in fact, a year later it’s still enticing me to put off work so I can squeeze a few rounds in almost daily.

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“Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No,’ says the man in Washington, ‘it belongs to the poor.’ ‘No,’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘it belongs to God.’ ‘No,’ says the man in Moscow, ‘it belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… hot dunks 24/7 slamming and jamming and punting and giving them the ol’ alley-oop in the highest-horsepower sportsballing this side of Atlantis GET DUNKED ON, FONTAINE.”>

Which is to say that the new BioShock-lookin’ Rocket League [official site] arena arrived in yesterday’s update, along with some snazzy subnautical sportsgear.

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