{"id":115127,"date":"2020-07-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/psyonix_celebrates_rocket_leagues_fifth_anniversary_with_a_huge_infographic"},"modified":"2020-07-08T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:30:00","slug":"psyonix-celebrates-rocket-leagues-fifth-anniversary-with-a-huge-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/psyonix-celebrates-rocket-leagues-fifth-anniversary-with-a-huge-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Psyonix Celebrates Rocket League&#8217;s Fifth Anniversary With A Huge Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4eb008fe7b32d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4eb008fe7b32d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Rocket League\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4eb008fe7b32d\/rocket-league.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4eb008fe7b32d\/rocket-league.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Rocket League\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Psyonix<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Following on from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> turning four, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\">Rocket League<\/a><\/strong> is now five &#8211; yes, five &#8211; years old. When it was originally rolled out on PC and PS4 in July 2015, the world went absolutely bonkers for this new futuristic hybrid sport, Soccar.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Psyonix&#8217;s game has grown each year. The Nintendo Switch version arrived in November 2017 and there&#8217;s now even full cross-play support &#8211; with a pool of 75 million players. Of course, it hasn&#8217;t been smooth sailing the entire way &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/psyonix_says_goodbye_to_paid_and_randomised_crates_in_rocket_league\">there was a massive crate controversy<\/a> &#8211; and one other moment that wasn&#8217;t so well received was when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/epic_games_acquires_rocket_league_developer_psyonix\">the company was acquired by Epic Games<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a message from Psyonix to the game&#8217;s community:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From all of us at Psyonix, thank you for being a part of this amazing journey. Here&#8217;s to five more years!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Rocket League Infographic\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4b4bcc9a9ce83\/rocket-league-infographic.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 3383'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"3383\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4b4bcc9a9ce83\/rocket-league-infographic.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket League Infographic\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Psyonix<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Have you been on this wild ride over the past five years? Have you even played the game yet? <em>Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Psyonix Following on from Pok\u00e9mon GO turning four, Rocket League is now five &#8211; yes, five &#8211; years old. When it was originally rolled out on PC and PS4 in July 2015, the world went absolutely bonkers for this new futuristic hybrid sport, Soccar. Since then, Psyonix&#8217;s game has grown each year. The Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}