Epic Games and Psyonix demonstrated Unreal Engine 6 on Rocket League. The brief trailer, published as part of the Rocket League Championship Series 2026 Paris Major, offered the first look at the version of the game running on the new engine. However, the release date, developer access and technical specifications list for Unreal Engine 6 have not been shared yet. Rocket League will be one of the first games of the Unreal Engine 6 era.
Psyonix announced the new era for the free-to-play vehicular football game Rocket League on the RLCS 2026 Paris Major stage. The screening included the version of Rocket League running on Unreal Engine 6. This promotion was one of the first open demonstrations for the successor of Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games and Psyonix did not announce the release schedule of Unreal Engine 6 during the promotion. Technical details were not shared about when the Rocket League update will be released, whether the current game will be completely moved to the new engine, what changes will be made on the performance side, and what difference it will make in competitive gameplay.
The name of Unreal Engine 6 was previously mentioned in the statements of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. In his assessment in May 2025, Sweeney said that Unreal Engine 6 was a few years away and that preview versions could be made available to developers in two-three years. In the same statements, it was stated that UE6 was considered as the version that would bring together the separate development branches of Unreal Engine 5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
One of the most important technical topics on Epic’s new engine side is the single-threaded structure in game simulation. According to Sweeney’s previous statements, Unreal Engine 6 will center on the transition to multi-threaded game simulation to overcome long-term limits in this field. Unreal Engine 5 was first shown with the new console generation in 2020. Epic Games released the first Early Access version of UE5 in May 2021, and the production-ready UE5.0 version was released in April 2022.
Epic Games’ current main engine line includes Unreal Engine 5.6. The company announced at the State of Unreal 2025 event that UE5.6 brings performance improvements for 60 FPS experience on current generation consoles, high-end PCs and modern mobile devices in large-scale open worlds. At the same event, the technology demo prepared for The Witcher 4 was shown running at 60 FPS with ray tracing on PlayStation 5. Epic is also expanding the content producer ecosystem on the UEFN side.
According to the information shared by the company, players have spent more than 11.2 billion hours on 260 thousand live content creator islands since the launch of UEFN. The amount of payments made to third-party content producers also reached $722 million.
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