Psyonix is an American video game developer based in San Diego, best known as the maker of Rocket League. Dave Hagewood founded it in 2000 with the team from his Internet-focused company WebSite Machines. After cancelling its first two projects, the studio built VehicleMOD, a mod that added vehicles to Unreal Tournament 2003, and Epic Games then hired it to recreate that gameplay as a mode in Unreal Tournament 2004. Psyonix lived on contract work and released its first original game, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, in 2008. The game underperformed, but Hagewood kept the concept alive with a small prototype team while the rest of the company did contract projects. That sequel became Rocket League in 2015 and a major commercial success. Epic Games acquired Psyonix in May 2019.
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Epic Games acquired the studio in May 2019.
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based in San Diego
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It was founded in 2000 by Dave Hagewood
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Psyonix LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego.
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based in San Diego
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Epic Games acquired the studio in May 2019.
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Based in San Diego, California, Psyonix is a critically-acclaimed video game developer
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