Rocket League gets basketball with Hoops mode on April 26

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Car soccer fans won't have to wait much longer to trade their cleated tires for Air Jordan all-weathers: developer Psyonix plans to add the Hoops mode to Rocket League as a free update on Tuesday, April 26. It marked the announcement with this buzzer-beating trailer (and yes, Nike has a monopoly on athletic tire sponsorships in my Rocket League headcanon).

Basketball is the second new sport added to Rocket League, after it sent players slamming into oversized hockey pucks over the winter. I hope Psyonix keeps the new modes coming, even if soccer remains the rightful focus of the game. Ooh, maybe all the other modes could feed into one Olympic-style playlist!

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.