Gaming
Rocket League hits 38 Million Users and Teases Future Updates
Psyonix has announced that they have plenty of reasons to celebrate the success of Rocket League. This popular mixture between rocket cars and football soccer has finally managed to gather over 38 million users. This is across multiple platforms including Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
I mean, I don’t want to sound like my peer when he reported that Psyonix reached 30 Million Users back in April. But it seems like it was yesterday when Psyonix was just starting with their game and now, all of the sudden, they have several ports for their game and a prominent eSports scene.
As “Rocket League’s best year yet” draws to a close, Psyonix took to its forums to outline some of the updates planned for 2018, with server performance being one of their top priorities.
“We’ll be rolling out improved connection quality status information in the game client in 2018 that will tell you if you’re experiencing packet loss, latency variance, or legitimate game server performance issues,” Psyonix said, adding that they are also looking into improved server reporting and region selection.
They also want to focus on the performance issues surrounding the Xbox One version. This is something the Psyonix development team has been focused on since the game rolled out, mind you. But there have been fixes to stuttering and performance issues and Psyonix aims to continue providing fixes as well.
The in-game tournaments feature of Rocket League will be likely seeing a release for 2018 as well. Not only that, but we’ll also get “Quality of Life” improvements with things like inventory management. There’s also some XP and Leveling tweaks that will give you rewards for playing the game.
Of course, there will still be the usual improvements to the eSports scene and rewards for the players who enjoy watching Rocket League eSports. But the game aims to continue to grow and at least Psyonix can have yet another reason to continue on providing a quality sports experience.
High on Life gets its first major paid DLC next week. From October 3, you can experience High on Knife. The offering was announced by a strange claymation trailer, and while you can still expect a silly experience, the developers wanted to make it spooky.
Announcing the DLC, Squanch Games CEO Mike Fridley said: “High On Knife is still hilarious and weird, but we’re getting spooky. Maybe not ‘I may never sleep again’ terror, but ‘my dreams are going to be broken for a while’. Imagine body horror, but your horrible body gets worse. We need your trust for now.”
Consider our curiosity piqued. Would you have bought High on Life for PlayStation or played it before? Any thoughts on High on Knife? Are you considering another serving?
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 appears to be a completionist’s dream, like its predecessors. Famous developer Insomniac Games has revealed a partial list of Trophies for the upcoming release, likely excluding spoilers. The lesson is that you must do almost everything to get Platinum.
Gongs include 100% completing every district in the game, including quests, collectibles, and crimes. You must also buy all gadget upgrades, unlock all suits, and complete combat missions as Peter Parker and Miles Morales. It seems simple, but you must do everything.
Here is a partial list of spoiler-free Trophies. After browsing, let us know if you’ll go Platinum. Doesn’t it look fun to unlock?
After an alleged data breach this week, Google Trends registered a 277% increase in “delete PlayStation account” searches. Ransomware group claimed to have “successfully compromised all of Sony’s systems” and sold stolen data. The Japanese giant says it’s investigating.
Despite no leak confirmation, search data suggests many gamers are eager to close their accounts in the aftermath. A 277% increase in search traffic is alarming, but we don’t know how many queries it represents.
Sony was hit hard over a decade ago when a PSN data breach took down its online network. This led the company to offer free security and several games as compensation. Naturally, it increased behind-the-scenes security.
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