250 FPS will run a 10-player Division 2 next to Season 6 Division 1. The field is the best qualifier finishers who miss a Division 1 slot and can play. Round robin, five matches played each week, then the top six in a double-elimination playoff.

The playoff pays $300: $120 / $80 / $60 / $40. First and second also get a Division 1 invite for next season. Division 1 stays at 12: eight invited from Season 5, four from the qualifiers. H3LLDOWN took the first. The other qualifiers are 4, 11 and 18 October. No group-stage start date.

Source: 250 FPS

phaze and rapha won EGB Cup 2v2 #4 on 27 September, beating DesiRo and Thri11er 3-1 in the grand final. They did not lose a series. $100: $70 / $30. dramiS and Strongsage finished third.

Upper bracket: 2-0 bukster and GaRpY, 2-0 anger and labur, 2-0 dramiS and Strongsage. DesiRo and Thri11er lost 1-2 to dramiS and Strongsage, beat them 2-0 in the losers final, and lost the rematch 1-3.

rapha's third straight EGB 2v2 title, each with a different teammate: k1llsen in #2, maxter in #3, phaze in #4.

Source: EGB

maxter won Estoty Duel Tournament #220 on 2 October without losing a series, beating Keltz 3-1 in the grand final. Tenth title, one behind ZenAkU. Keltz, third all-time with 33, finished second. $100: $40 / $25 / $15 / $10 / $5. Strongsage finished third, St0n3 fourth. 1eroy and Thri11er tied fifth.

Upper bracket: 2-1 Coffee by Tomo, 2-0 St0n3, 2-1 Strongsage, 2-1 Keltz. Keltz beat Strongsage 2-0 in the losers final and lost the rematch 1-3.

Source: Estoty

AGENT won EGB Cup #70 on 3 October without losing a series. He beat k1llsen 2-1 in the winners final and 3-0 in the grand final. $50: $40 / $10. ash finished third.

Upper bracket: 2-1 rell, 2-0 ARSENY, 2-1 k1llsen. k1llsen beat Spart1e 2-0 and ash 2-0, lost the winners final, then beat ash 2-1 in the losers final and lost the rematch 0-3.

Source: EGB

I've been working on Dinoblast, a fast FPS that runs in the browser: no install, no account. dinoblast.net

Movement

• Movement inspired by QuakeWorld-style strafe jumping and bunny hopping
• Physics at a fixed 125 Hz, independent of your framerate
• An in-game bunny hop tutorial takes new players from 300 to 1500 u/s

Race mode (the current focus)

• Trackmania-style: you race against your own ghost and the ghosts of the top 5 players on each map
• World leaderboard per map, and every run is replayed on the server from its inputs before it's accepted, so there are no spoofed times
• 8 race maps so far, including a maze

Coming next

• More maze maps, each adding one twist: multiple floors, traps, water, teleporters
• New race map mechanics: moving platforms, swimming, laser gates, and a track along the back of a giant diplodocus
• Bots and FFA
• Online duel, if enough people are interested

It's a solo project, still rough around the edges. I'm looking for feedback from people who know how movement should feel: acceleration, air control, anything that feels off.

Discord link is on the site.

Reddit user deadmanwonderland_23 says a $1,099 Walmart order for one MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB arrived as four. They are the Frieren edition, listed at $1,259 on MSI's own store, so the four boxes are a bit over $5,000. The post shows four identical cartons. Walmart has not confirmed the shipment, and the buyer has not said whether the extra three were reported.

Source: Reddit

Modder gebdag has put path tracing on Grand Theft Auto 2, the 1999 top-down game. GTA2 RTX Remix, on Nvidia's RTX Remix, lets fires, explosions and gunfire cast light, adds a day-night cycle and 16:9, and aims frame generation at 60 fps. GTA 2 does not speak DirectX 9, so two DLLs translate. A copy of the game is still required. Rockstar gave version 9.6 away in 2004. Any GeForce RTX card can run it. A 4070 or faster is the suggestion.

Source: Tom's Hardware

Thieves in Fremont, California took two PlusAI trailers because they had Nvidia logos on them. They got about half a mile, then opened the doors. Each trailer held 20,000 pounds of sand, 40,000 pounds in all. PlusAI packs the trailers that way so its Nvidia-backed autonomous trucks can practice hauling freight. The computers were in the cabs, which stayed in the warehouse. Police recovered both trailers with the sand still in them. No arrests.

Source: Wired

pavel and Nitrino won EGB Cup #69 on 26 September, the first QL TDM 2v2 under the pairing ban. They did not lose a series and beat k1llsen and Spart1e 3-1 in the grand final. $100: $70 / $30. cYpheR and rell finished third.

Upper bracket: 2-1 k1llsen and Spart1e in the winners semi, 2-1 cYpheR and rell in the winners final. k1llsen and Spart1e came back through the losers over ash and koMnoT, AGENT and KAK_AGENT, then cYpheR and rell, and lost the rematch 1-3.

Source: EGB

H3LLDOWN won 250 FPS Season 6 Qualifier 1 on 27 September, beating sCoopY_ 3-1 in the grand final. He did not lose a series: 2-1 sCoopY_ in the opener, then 2-0 Troolz, ARSENY and Radist_dk. sCoopY_ came back through the lower bracket and lost the rematch 1-3.

The win is the first Division 1 spot. Nine of the twelve places are filled. He joins AGENT, cYpheR, k1llsen, cherepoff, pavel, ash, baksteen and Spart1e. The other qualifiers are 4, 11 and 18 October. The group stage has no start date.

Source: EGB

Germany won the QL Duel Nations Cup on 27 September. k1llsen did not lose a series. He 2-0'd Slovenia, Sweden and Russia in the upper bracket, then beat Spart1e 2-1 in the grand final. Silence was the only map he dropped: Bloodrun 3-2, Silence 3-11, Sinister 5-4.

Russia, ash and pavel, finished third. They lost the winners final 0-2 to Germany, then the lower final 0-1 to Sweden.

Germany has 17 points after two legs (7 from second in CTF, 10 from this duel). The UK is second on 11. Sweden has 7. Benelux and Russia have 6. 4v4 TDM is 4 October. Germany takes the overall title with third or better there, whatever the UK does. The UK is the only team that can still pass them.

Source: House of Quake

Andrew Willis, a producer on Doom: The Dark Ages and its Revelations expansion, described the July id Software layoff call in an interview with Kiwi Talkz.

Staff were told not to come into the office. About 95 people then got a Teams invite. Cameras off, chat disabled, everyone muted except Marty Stratton.

I received a Microsoft Teams invite, there were about 95 of us, no cameras on with chat disabled, everyone muted except Marty Stratton. He took about 50 seconds to say that if you were on this call, your positions were eliminated. He said it wasn't a reflection on our performance.

He said that was the last direct word from id or Microsoft for many of them, and that people were not allowed back in to collect their things.

Source: Kiwi Talkz

EGB Cup #69, the sixth QL TDM 2v2 in the series, is Saturday 26 September at 11:00 UTC. $100. Double elimination. Winners semis, winners final, lower final, and the grand final are bo3. The other rounds are bo1.

AGENT, ash, cYpheR, pavel, and Latrommi can play, but none of them can team with each other. Each has to pick a partner from outside that five. AGENT and ash won TDM 2v2 #4 and #5, so they cannot defend the title together.

Maps: Almost Lost, Bloodrun, Campgrounds, Devilish, Hidden Fortress.

Source: EGB

250 FPS has set four Quake Live qualifiers for Season 6. The winner of each one takes a group-stage spot. The group stage start is not set, and the season dates are marked approximate.

Qualifier 1 is Sunday 27 September at 11:00 UTC. Then 4 October, 11 October, and 18 October, all at 11:00 UTC. Double elimination: lower bracket bo1, upper bracket bo3, grand final bo5.

Already in from the Season 5 group-stage top eight: cYpheR, AGENT, ash, pavel, k1llsen, cherepoff, baksteen, and Spart1e.

Source: EGB