It’s a cold enough winter to hibernate here in video game land, but esports does not rest. This weekend brings us a packed lineup of Smash, League, Heroes and Fortnite, as well as multiple PUBG and Rocket League tournaments.
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The inaugural season of Gfinity's Australian city-based esports league wrapped up over the weekend with a southern rout. Having solidified their position in the finals of all three games, Melbourne Order turned the weekend into a whitewash, taking home the trophy in all three matches and the club championship to boot.
Over the weekend, Gfinity's first city-based esports league will come to a close. So if you'd like to see who will sit atop the crown for Rocket League, CS:GO and Street Fighter 5, you can tune in here.
Pay-to-win games are garbage. Loot boxes are passe. Cosmetics are cute, but not a great incentive to keep playing. Game publishers have cycled through a bevy of monetisation gimmicks aimed at keeping gamers putting cash into their games, some more successful than others. Now, more and more of them seem to be coalescing around a new idea - the "battle pass".
A standard competitive Rocket League team has three players, but sometimes it only takes one to slam the ball into the goal, even past all three opposing players.
Cloud9 has secured a neat 3-0 at the end of its match this weekend against Out of Style in the Rocket League championship series. Mariano "Squishy" Arruda was not content to let the game end at the zero, however, and caught the ball at just the last second for a game of keepie uppie.
Rocket League is a game with very little randomness. It's mostly about the physics of rocket-powered cars slamming into giant balls. But during today's Rocket League championship series matches, the one aspect of randomness in the game made a surprise appearance: respawning.
In today's European play-in qualifiers for the Rocket League Rival Series, team Triple Trouble showcased some beautiful coordination in setting up a clean shot on the goal by bumping out the defenders.
Last year, Rocket League developer Psyonix added iconic Hot Wheels vehicles to its popular car soccer video game. This year, Hot Wheels returns the favour, recreating the video game in miniature with the Hot Wheels Rocket League RC Rivals Set.
Today's grand finals between G2 and Paris Saint-Germain managed to go the full distance. It was the champs against the fresh-but-fierce PSG squad, and it all came down to a single goal in extra time.
The upcoming Twelve Titans Rocket League tournament will pit 12 players against each other in a winner-take-all one-on-one brawl. Isaiah Sharrieff was set to be one of those players who would play in the tournament in Scotland -- until he revealed on Twitter that he had already played his first round and won't fly to Scotland.
The British are coming and they're bringing an esports competition with them. Starting this week, Gfinity's Challenger series lets you show your skills and - if you kick enough ass - you can get drafted into their Elite series where pro teams will compete for $450,000 in prizes.
Until today, I only got my arse kicked at Rocket League indoors, on a couch, proximate to a television. Now that the beloved car soccer game is on the Switch, the realm of arse-kicking possibilities is infinite. I didn't know I wanted this and I am so happy.
Mariano "Squishy" "SquishyMuffinz" Arruda's Cloud9 team only finished third at this past weekend's Rocket League season four finals in Washington, DC, so Mr Muffinz will have to settle for what might be the best single shot ever made in competitive Rocket League history.
The season four finals of the Rocket League Championship Series ended in a European grudge match, as its top two teams Gale Force eSports and Method clashed again in the grand finals.
If lush jungles and representing the Empire sounds like your cup of tea, then this week has a new Star Wars game for you: Battlefront 2. And if you like returning to worlds you've visited before, you can buy Skyrim all over again.
This week is really about the remakes and remasters. There's a re-release of Pokemon Sun/Moon, L.A. Noire, Rocket League, Outlast and the consoles finally get The Sims 4.
Most Rocket League players have scored an own-goal at some point in their life, but having that moment happen on the championship stage can be a little demoralising.
Despite very few radical changes over the last couple years, Rocket League always seems to have something new to teach me. Case in point: today, while browsing the community's subreddit, I found this clip from user Whiffmiester.
Teamwork makes the dream work in Rocket League, and in a match between Cloud9 and Ghost in today's championship series matches, all three members got a piece of one goal.
Rocket League has been steadily growing as a scene, both fostering its own league and spotlighting on networks like NBCSN. It's easy to see why -- rocket-car soccer is inherently simple to understand as a spectator. The high-flying automotive game has space for wild plays, but when it comes to competitive action, simple has proven better.
