The fact that developer, Psyonix, doesn’t have a storied history of paradigm-shifting properties has made this little explosion all that more unexpected. Rocket League came along, and now I can care once more. That is until this week, when something so small, so simple, squeaked its way into the free games line up and blew up the marketplace in a way that hadn’t been seen before. It had been the slow decline of something once great.
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PS Plus was becoming something of a purgatorial space for the games that no one gave a shit about. A constant cycle of enthusiastic excitement turned to straight up grief. It’s been a dismal showing of last generation games, second-rate indie games, second-rate last-gen indie games, etc. I’ve lamented the last few months of releases on Playstation Plus (Sony’s online service that tosses users a handful of free games each month in exchange for a yearly fee). Scott buckles his seatbelt, plants his hands at 10 and 2, and uses turn signals vigilantly in Rocket League, the new breakout hit from Psyonix, Inc. This is Load File, where we discover passions for sports, cars, and sportscars we never knew we had.