{"id":87598,"date":"2016-03-30T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87598"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:38:31","slug":"rocket-league-meets-basketball-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87598-rocket-league-meets-basketball-coming-soon","title":{"rendered":"Rocket League meets basketball &#8211; coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket League developer Psyonix has announced the launch date for the game&#8217;s new basketball-inspired game mode.<\/p>\n<p>Psyonix has recently been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLeague\/status\/708107277543182336\" target=\"_blank\">teasing <\/a>Rocket League&#8217;s newest content release on social media, and has now confirmed that the new basketball-themed gameplay will be implemented into the game next month.<\/p>\n<p>The game mode is called Dunk House, and will feature large hoops at either end of the playing field instead of the usual football-styled goals.<\/p>\n<p>The replacement of football goals with basketball hoops will force players to employ a more aerial strategy in order to score, as oppose to the relatively grounded gameplay of the regular mode.<\/p>\n<p>The developer announced via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLeague\/status\/714961035883483137\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter <\/a>that the new game mode will arrive sometime in April 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Break some axles in the Dunk House this April! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RocketLeagueHoops?src=hash\">#RocketLeagueHoops<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VA23YUEEXM\">pic.twitter.com\/VA23YUEEXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rocket League (@RocketLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLeague\/status\/714961035883483137\">March 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EVGA unveils first gaming laptop\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87606-evga-unveils-first-gaming-laptop.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">EVGA unveils first gaming laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 games we can\u2019t wait to play in April\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87596-5-games-we-cant-wait-to-play-in-april.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 games we can\u2019t wait to play in April<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Rumour: Shadow of Mordor 2 in development\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87614-rumour-shadow-of-mordor-2-in-development.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rumour: Shadow of Mordor 2 in development<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket League&#8217;s new basketball game mode has a release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16050,9985,15397,1853,15155,14566,991,243],"class_list":["post-87598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-basketball","tag-cars","tag-pc","tag-playstation4","tag-psyonix","tag-rocket-league","tag-soccer","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}