Over Memorial Day weekend, Epic Games revealed a first look at Unreal Engine 6 in a bit of an unexpected manner. Rather than unveiling the hotly anticipated upgrade at a tech or game developer conference (one of those just took place a few months ago), it instead showed off the new engine with a brief trailer at a Rocket League tournament of all possible places.
During the Paris Major of the Rocket League Championship Series, Epic Games and Psyonix, the developers behind the hit rocket-powered car sports game, seized upon the moment to tease the game's fans about the title's future. The brief snippet shown at the tournament, totaling all of about 35 seconds and captured in-game, bears many of the hallmark tenets of Rocket League iconography: the color-coded goal, the green of the pitch, the cybernetic cage around the arena, and even the ball that players are trying to knock around for points.
