Rocket League engine switch noted

Psyonix used the Rocket League Championship Series Paris Major on May 24 to preview Rocket League running in Unreal Engine 6, giving the 2015 game its first public look on a new engine after years on Unreal Engine 3. Epic Games presented the footage as part of the Unreal Engine 6 announcement, and gaming outlets including IGN and Polygon described it as a first glimpse of the upgraded version. The reveal surfaced a day after an X post grouped the change with two other live-service talking points: Fortnite gifting and Destiny 2’s latest troubles. The comparison in that social recap reflects three different kinds of updates. Rocket League is showing a technology transition, Fortnite already has an established gifting system for eligible in-game purchases, and Bungie is preparing what it called the final live-service content update for Destiny 2 on June 9. (ign.com) ### What exactly changed with Rocket League this week? Psyonix showed Rocket League running in Unreal Engine 6 during the Paris Major on May 24. IGN reported the studio described the reveal as a “new era” for the game and said the footage included a first look at an updated logo. Polygon said the demo marked the first public look at a game running on Unreal Engine 6. (epicgames.com) Rocket League has been on Unreal Engine 3 since its launch 11 years ago, according to IGN. That makes the engine move notable on its own, separate from any announced gameplay changes, because it affects the technology underneath one of Epic Games’ longest-running competitive titles. (ign.com) ### Did Fortnite just add cosmetic gifting? Epic Games’ Fortnite support page says gifting already allows players to purchase in-game content with V-Bucks and some real-money purchases for friends. The page lists requirements including two-factor authentication, a minimum account level of 2, and a waiting period after adding a friend before gifts can be sent. (ign.com) Fortnite’s official Item Shop page also shows the game’s cosmetics economy remains active, with outfits, emotes, pickaxes and bundles rotating through the store. The social post’s reference to Fortnite “enabling gifting of cosmetics” appears to describe that consumer-facing feature set rather than a newly announced platform overhaul in the official materials surfaced here. That is an inference based on Epic’s current support documentation and shop pages. (epicgames.com) ### What were the “major issues” around Destiny 2? Bungie said on May 21 that June 9, 2026 will bring “the final live-service content update for Destiny 2” as the studio begins what it called a “new journey.” Bungie also said active development may be concluding, while the game will remain playable. Forbes, summarizing Bungie’s announcement, said future expansions had been canceled and described the game as heading into maintenance mode. (epicgames.com) The X recap cited “major issues,” but the official Bungie post tied the current player anxiety to the game’s development future rather than to a specific outage or hotfix detailed in the recap itself. (bungie.net) ### Why were these three games grouped together in one post? The May 23 X post bundled three high-profile live-service games into a single snapshot of what players were talking about that week: an engine reveal for Rocket League, gifting and shop activity in Fortnite, and uncertainty around Destiny 2. Each item came from a different publisher — Psyonix and Epic Games on one side, Bungie on the other — but all three involved games that update continuously rather than through one-time boxed releases. (forbes.com) June 9 is the next named milestone in the group. Bungie has scheduled “Monument of Triumph” for that date, while Psyonix has so far shown Rocket League’s engine shift publicly without announcing a release date for the upgraded version in the sources reviewed here. (bungie.net) (ign.com)