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Rocket League will reveal Rocket League's "surprising" next update in the next two weeks.

"As we get closer to the Rocket League Championship Series," explained vice president Jeremy Dunham to IGN, "around that time [August 6-7] is when we're going to start promoting our next update - and wait 'til people see it.

"We've got something brewing that a lot of people have been asking for in different forms but is also very surprising. It's going to be interesting, but it's going to be cool too."

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It's not immediately clear what that much-requested feature could be. Popular ideas on the Rocket League Suggestions forum include garages for saved cars, more customisable vehicles and custom goal explosions, while the second most upvoted post of all time on the Rocket League subreddit is a beachball-and-powerboats mode.

While Dunham wouldn't be drawn on the exact content of the update, there's a sense that it could be something akin to Rocket League's previous Snow Day and Hoops modes, which adapted the game's vehicular football set-up to take on other sports' characteristics.

Speaking later about Psyonix's general approach to updates, he said:

"From our vantage point, people are playing the game because they like it how it is, so we don't want to get in the way of playing the game in the way that they've fallen in love with it - but we also don't want them to think that there aren't other options for them.

"That's why a lot of the modes that we've introduced - Snow Day, Hoops, the Mutators, and some of the things we have planned for the future - are coming in to supplement what we've done as the base game, to give people options and feed their curiosity without taking away from what keeps them coming back. [My emphasis]"

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It's the start of what Dunham calls a "more aggressive" approach to updates for the game. "We have several major updates scheduled for the rest of the year," he explains. "We're working on a lot of the stuff which we're planning to do for our next update right now. Then as soon as we're done with that, we're onto our very next update right after that - and these aren't just small updates [...] We're adding new content in all of these updates, we're adding brand new features, we're adding new modes in some of them."

As it turns out, one Rocket-League's most-requested features - cross-network play between Xbox One and PS4 - is already completed, and just needs Sony's go-ahead before it can be released. Here's hoping that makes it into one of those content drops.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor and that powerboats mode just makes him think of Blood Wake, which can only be a good thing. Follow him on Twitter.