The game features fully customizable male, female and droid players, and a virtual marketplace for unlockable in-game content.

The game also features a subscriber-based "Gold" mode in which players are granted access to worldwide officially ranked leagues.

[1] The SourceBall project began development in November 2004,[2] and garnered interest from both Valve (many of whom claimed to be fans of the original Speedball 2), and from Mike Montgomery of The Bitmap Brothers.

Following a change of leadership in early 2006, development on the SourceBall project ended, but public demand for a new version of Speedball 2 remained high.

As eminent advisor and lead producer, Mike Montgomery from Bitmap Brothers was a supervisor in the development of the game.