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The Latest Breaking News from Rematch

Sloclap Reflects on Rematch’s Rocky First Year and the Reality of Live-Service Football

Sloclap CEO Pierre Tarno tells all.

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"Players are very precise and very demanding": Rematch "was a very strong learning curve" for the Sifu devs, but Sloclap is still working to find the back of the net

Year in Review 2025 | A game of two halves

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Rematch Dev Responds to Fan Concerns With Candid Discord Message

Truly a heartfelt message.

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Rematch Player Numbers Drop Sharply on Steam

Rematch's player count has dipped dramatically since launch.

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Rematch Confirms Upcoming Hotfix, Currently in Console Certification

A new Rematch hotfix is on the way, and it aims to solve a handful of frustrating issues players have been dealing with since the last update. According to developers Sloclap, the patch has already been completed and is currently in the console certification process. Once approved, it will be…

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Rematch Lands Nomination for Best Multiplayer Game at Golden Joysticks

Rematch is getting its due!

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Rematch Update Addresses Goalkeeper, Locomotion and Match Flow Issues

Rematch received a new update earlier today that cleans up a number of lingering issues with goalkeepers, locomotion, match flow and more.

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Rematch is free to play for a long weekend after its Season 1 launch—and I'm currently torn between saving Olympus and having a kickabout

Surely Hecate can wait just a little bit.

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Rematch Elite Edition Hitting Retail Shelves on November 14

Sloclap confirmed that Rematch will be getting a physical edition for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 14, priced at $40. The Elite Edition is set to include the full Season 1 content scheduled to launch later this month.

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Rematch crossplay is delayed after devs found "a major matchmaking issue" during its "final tests" before Patch 3's launch

"Since Crossplay is the heart of Patch 3, we've decided to delay the release while we fix it"

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3 best Xbox games on Game Pass that I'd happily have paid full price for

Here are three Xbox Game Pass games worth every penny – if you had to pay extra for them

Rematch's latest update aims to fix 'major netcode releases' including missed tackles and false goals, crossplay will 'hopefully' go live by the end of August

The second big Rematch patch is now live in Steam beta and expected to roll into the full game on Monday.

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Why is REMATCH struggling to retain its players? One of my favorite online games is still missing the most crucial feature of all

Are cosmetic microtransactions sidelining the potential of this fun multiplayer football title? REMATCH is losing its players, and crucial features are still absent.

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EA boss doesn't seem worried about Rematch stealing EA Sports FC 26's thunder as he insists "we love competition," but are "always watching" competitors: "We never sit back with arrogance"

EA CEO Andrew Wilson thinks "we have the greatest football creation team on the planet"

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Sifu wasn't just a kung-fu game, say its devs, and Rematch is actually a "samurai game" and not a football game

I think I've been playing it wrong

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Rematch devs call it a 'samurai game' and give a timeline for player reports, new ranked queues

Plus a patch adds colorblindness features, gamepad remapping.

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Rematch's first big patch makes being a goalkeeper even more terrifying, because improved hit detection means I'm being mobbed on every goal kick

My controller can't get much sweatier

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Rematch dev is "sorry" that players wanted more Sifu, "but for the moment it was better to let it rest"

Sloclap had "given everything we had on Sifu"

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FIFA and Rocket League aren't major Rematch competitors, according to director who says that fans of the football game "don't have an alternative" to play instead

And Football Manager certainly doesn't count

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Rematch director doesn't want to make "$50-100 million" games, "because that's what the big studios do" and all it does is limit the studio's creative freedom

And that just makes it harder to survive in a tough industry

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Rematch developers didn't 'get' the game, Sloclap boss says, until they started playing internal tournaments: 'I don't give a s**t about football, but this really struck something in me'

It turns out that a lot of Rematch developers, and a big chunk of players, aren't soccer fans.

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Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'

Tekkers!

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"The essence of football is not in the rules": Rematch's creative director on nailing that five-a-side feeling and making a game "about kicking a ball rather than kicking heads in"

Interview | Creative director Pierre Tarno dives into the motion that ties Rematch, Sifu, and Absolver together

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Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'

Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".

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No more dolphin swimming or flying in Rematch—in a bug fix, Sloclap very seriously explains why levitating soccer players aren't part of its vision for the game

It's okay, Sloclap. We understand.

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