No download is needed for today's Rocket League update, which brings it into Sony's PlayStation Cross-Play Beta program. That means that, starting today, Rocket League players on PlayStation 4 can play with Switch and Xbox players.

PS4 players could already play with PC players, but the change does affect us. Previously, we could either match with Xbox and Switch players or PlayStation 4 players, but never a mixed-platform group including all of them. With today's change, players on all three consoles and PC can join the same match. As usual, console players will all be designated as "Psynet" players if you're on PC.

I'm hoping this helps ease solo matchmaking in my preferred mode, Snow Day, where it can be tough to find matches with its sub-1,000 playercount. It probably won't significantly affect the primary modes, which are populated with thousands and thousands of players, but it does lift platform restrictions on tournaments.

This was a necessary step toward Psyonix's next challenge, which is to introduce cross-platform parties so that we can team up with console friends. That feature is coming in Rocket League's "first update this year," says Psyonix in the announcement post.  

In the meantime, here's to Rocket League unity. It doesn't matter whose net it is, just hit the ball into it:

When I want to share a heinous Rocket League goal, I usually save a replay of the match and then record my 360 back-flippy bar-downski with ShadowPlay after the fact, setting up a nice, HUDless shot. Either that, or I forget to save a replay and the goal is lost forever.

That was until my Discord friends convinced me to try Gif Your Game. I knew the name from the watermark on other people's gifs, but I'd never tried it because I figured I had enough video recording and gif-making software already. I did not want yet another program running in the background. But they were right: Gif Your Game is a blessing.

The utility of GYG is common knowledge to many, but the software was new to a few of us, so consider this a PSA for those who are not currently gifing their games: Gif Your Game is free, you can disable the watermark if you want, and it ensures you'll never lose a badass pinch or kill again.

While Gif Your Game can record highlights via hotkey—like lots of other programs—its best feature is its game-specific auto-recording, and it currently supports Rocket League, Fortnite, PUBG, and League of Legends. In the case of Rocket League, I've set it to auto-capture every goal, every assist, and every save. After each one, it eventually DMs me a link to my video on Discord. Despite the name, GYG actually records mp4s with audio, not gifs, but if you want, you can download the mp4 and upload it to Gfycat or convert it to a gif yourself.

As promised on the website, I've noticed no performance hiccups as the result of using GYG. It just does its thing seamlessly, and after an hour of pucking around I can browse and share all my best moments without having to scrub through replays for ages.

Note that Gif Your Game currently only works with the games I listed: Rocket League, Fortnite, PUBG, and League of Legends. For PUBG and Fortnite, it can be set to auto-record all kills, double kills, or triple kills. The same is true for LoL, except you can limit it all the way up to penta kills.

I'll still save replays of our best matches (when I remember), but being able to casually share our goals and saves without much effort has livened things up for my Rocket League friends. How exactly Bad Panda, Inc plans to monetize GYG, if it does, is unclear—currently it sells a Rocket League training course from Kronovi, but GYG is free. I've reached out to Bad Panda to ask what its future plans may be.

My Rocket League group is largely composed of hockey fans—hence our Snow Day obsession—and so we spend most matches replicating the absurd banter of NHL color commentators: Four lines banging all night. Gotta get to the dirty areas. Good things happen when you get pucks to the net. Take the hit to make the play.

As in the NHL, our best exclamations come after a filthy goal, at which point our Discord icons light up with such classics as "piss on my hands!"

I can't take credit for any of this—Snow Day pals Julez and Juxxt are the most prolific commentators, and started the trend—but my exclamation of "adopt me!" after Julez dismantled our opponents the other day is now canon. I have a new dad.

We use NHL standards, too: "top shelf where mama keeps the cookies" (there is some debate over whether it should be cookies or something else), "an absolute laser," and Mike Lange's "shave my face with a rusty razor," as seen recently in reference to a Bryan Rust goal. 

I like how sub-sub-cultures develop on Discord servers (or other voice chat severs, though everyone I know has migrated). There's a common language to each game—"banana" in Counter-Strike, for instance—but then there are the terms that are entirely localized within small groups. I wonder, for instance, if anyone else calls Rocket League dangles, jukes, and fakes "goofs" like we do? Do they understand what we mean when we say "ya goofed me" in text chat? 

It got me curious to know: what phrases have you only heard in your group, be it about Rocket League or any other game? So for this mid-week Q&A, let us know your favorite inside gags and localized terminology in the comments. Maybe we've all been saying the same things?

(Speaking of Discord servers, PC Gamer has its own, which you can access by becoming a Club member.)