{"id":88317,"date":"2026-08-26T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88317"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:36:35","slug":"more-people-watch-hockey-thanks-to-heated-rivalry-and-this-new-game-hopes-to-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88317","title":{"rendered":"More People Watch Hockey Thanks To Heated Rivalry, And This New Game Hopes To Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Savage Planet series developer Raccoon Logic announced a new game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-games-and-trailers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-games-and-trailers\/\">Gamescom<\/a> today, and it&#8217;s not what anyone would expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breakaway Hockey League is a new &#8220;high-skill&#8221; 4v4 ice hockey game with five-minute matches, ranked play, and what the studio called &#8220;larger-than-life spectacle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIqv5Qg2Tmo&amp;t=1s  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In development for PC, Breakaway Hockey League has players controlling just one member of the team, not the entire lineup like you might find in EA&#8217;s NHL series. Raccoon Logic is promising things like realistic puck physics and &#8220;physical checking,&#8221; along with other things you&#8217;d expect from a hockey game, including skill moves like dekes and picking your corners with precision shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raccoon Logic is hoping Breakaway Hockey League will lead to &#8220;highlight-reel moments&#8221; with its more arcade-y setup, which in turn people may share online. The game promises players &#8220;dramatic breakaways, clutch saves, and bone-rattling hits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raccoon Logic&#8217;s marketing boss Hugo Agostinho said the team created Breakaway Hockey League in part because of a gap in the market with hockey games vanishing from PC. That&#8217;s not totally true, as Steam is filled with hockey games like Bush League Hockey, Hoser Hockey, and Backyard Hockey &#8217;02, just to name a few. In any event,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savage Planet series developer Raccoon Logic announced a new game at Gamescom today, and it&#8217;s not what anyone would expect. Breakaway Hockey League is a new &#8220;high-skill&#8221; 4v4 ice hockey game with five-minute matches, ranked play, and what the studio called &#8220;larger-than-life spectacle.&#8221; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIqv5Qg2Tmo&amp;t=1s In development for PC, Breakaway Hockey League has players controlling just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88320,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88317\/revisions\/88320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}