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

would i have anything that happened in my trip to be any interest to the community of ESR.

I have twice to land upon Narita airport. Once was NEX and another Keisei. you must know Tokyo metropolitan choices of train could be JR, Toei and metro.

i have felt an end to my gaming interest. And again would it have anything to do with ESR to a good question and argument.

Sup guys, just wanted to share that theres a "Quake Community" facebook group with 16k users. But they dont share anything about the big cups, streams, etc.

I made some posts about them but they never got approved,yet the admins post and approve shit like "Oh look i found a broken Quake 1 disc in the atic".

Supposing 50% of those 16k check the group here and there, its a lot of eyes. We need majored posts about the important competitive stuff still happening there.

Ive tried and failed, so if you got ideas or a facebook account and want to try something, DO IT!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/quakecommunity

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

1.31 Point release introduces new way to play the game, plenty of major changes or plain removals of "DLC" content.

Today’s update marks a new chapter for Quake Champions as we transition the game from a free-to-play service to a paid application on Steam. Along with 30 Seasons worth of content to enjoy, all Champions are now unlocked for everyone, and most vanity content is available to equip. Battle Passes and microtransactions have been removed. Quake Champions is now available for one low price on Steam. No additional content updates are planned at this time. If you previously played Quake Champions on Steam, the new version will appear in your Steam Library at no additional cost.

Full changelog can be found here:
Changelog

United Kingdom won the QL CTF 4v4 European Nations Cup on 20 September, the first leg of the Fall Nations Cup. They went 5-0 in the Swiss, 10-3 on maps, and beat Germany 2-0 in the grand final: Japanese Castles 3-2, Infinity 2-1. Benelux finished third, Denmark fourth.

11 teams. Five Swiss rounds from 13:00 UTC Sunday, playoffs the same night. Semis: UK 2-1 Denmark, Germany 2-0 Benelux.

CTF points toward the overall cup: UK 10, Germany 7, Benelux 5, Denmark 3. Poland, Russia, France, and the Czech Republic each took 1.

Duel is Sunday 27 September. 4v4 TDM is 4 October. The three events combine for the Nations Cup title.

Source: Plus Forward

cYpheR won EGB Cup Final #3 on 20 September, beating k1llsen 4-3 in the grand final. $500: $300 / $100. ash third.

The field was the top eight from the weekly cups: AGENT, k1llsen, cYpheR, ash, Spart1e, pavel, ARSENY, H3LLDOWN. Two groups of four. In Group A, ash, AGENT, and pavel each beat one of the other two 2-0, so one-map tiebreakers decided it. ash and AGENT advanced. In Group B, k1llsen went 3-0 and cYpheR finished second at 2-1.

k1llsen beat AGENT 2-1 in the winners semi and ash 2-1 in the winners final. cYpheR lost 0-2 to ash, then beat AGENT 2-1 and ash 2-0 from the lower bracket.

The final moved to Sunday. k1llsen could not play late Saturday. He started the best-of-seven a map up. cYpheR won four of the six maps played: Silence 10-7, Aerowalk 13-7, Toxicity 12-4, Furious Heights 12-1. k1llsen took Sinister 5-2 and Battleforged 8-5.

Source: Plus Forward

Adam "SyncError" Pyle told the official Quake Discord on 20 September that he is no longer working on Quake Champions updates. The four-week return that started 31 August, to finish 1.31, is over.

On 18 September he had stopped new code and was only answering QA tickets for features already in testing. This goes past that. A player suggested more changes for 1.31. He replied:

I'm no longer working on QC updates.

Asked whether to retire the Discord channel, he posted a farewell GIF and added:

Everyone's dad dies eventually. It's time for me to leave you.

He said the dad is dying. Turns out he was just dying to leave.

No replacement developer is named. He has not said whether 1.31 ships, or whether it is the last QC update. That build still drops the Store, Battle Pass, and paid currencies, and unlocks most vanity.

Source: Plus Forward

Bloodrun BUILD 2026-09-12, a week after the UI rebuild. Mouse accel: Q3, IOQ3, and QL schemes now have independent settings. QL gets a speed threshold, power, and cap, including negative accel. Zoom can use its own scheme or none. Zoom sensitivity no longer leaks into hipfire.

CTF is a menu mode with a capture limit. Carriers drop the flag on the ability button, 2s before they can pick it up again, teammates can take it immediately. Picking up a flag cancels an active ability. Bots now attack flags, escort teammates, and intercept carriers. Ultra Nightmare bots hunt when behind. Nav points on 11 maps.

Also: ten HUD crosshairs with per-weapon shapes, a duel scoreboard, server-side rewind toggle per hitscan (MG, SG, LG, RG), pickup radius 80 to 75, BSP 47 support.

PTS MOSCOW 1-3. Build on Google Drive and Yandex Disk.

Source: Bloodrun Telegram

k1llsen won EGB QC Cup #8 by beating Thri11er 2-0 in the winners final and 3-0 in the grand final. Week earlier Thri11er had 2-0'd him at Cup #7. $75: $60 / $15, klyb third.

k1llsen opened 2-1 cYpheR, 2-0 Yup. Thri11er through losers 2-0 klyb after the first loss.

Fourth EGB QC Cup title for k1llsen in eight events.

Source: EGB QC Cup #8

cYpheR went unbeaten through EGB Cup #68 on 12 September and 3-0'd k1llsen in the grand final. $51: $41 / $10.

Upper bracket: 2-0 ant1, 2-1 Spart1e, 2-0 ash in the winners final. k1llsen dropped 0-2 to ash, then through losers over LOKOMOTIV, Spart1e, and 2-0 ash.

After two runner-up finishes to AGENT at #66 and #67. Last regular QL duel before EGB Cup Final #3 on 19 September ($500).

Source: EGB Cup #68

The StarCraft site glitch was the shooter. BlizzCon opening ceremony, 12 September: StarCraft returns as an original open-world shooter, spring 2030. Not an RTS. Set in the Koprulu Sector, about 70 years after Legacy of the Void. Cinematic only, no gameplay.

Dan Hay (Far Cry 3-6, now Blizzard GM) introduced it:

This is something new: an open-world shooter where every step is earned. Not from above, but down on the ground, in the mud, in the fire.

Blizzard: "it's about damn time." Title is just StarCraft. Ghost and Ares were the last two shooter attempts; both died.



Also: Diablo V, spring 2029, Sanctuary already fallen. Diablo IV Season of Hell's Legacy 15 September (Prime Evils, Deckard Cain). Animated Diablo series with Netflix.

World of Warcraft: Forever, third track next to Modern and Classic, Vanilla-era, 4 November, beta 17 September. Warcraft III: Reforged Forsaken Kingdom campaign is out now, first new WC3 story in 23 years.

Source: Xbox Wire / Eurogamer

After weekly maintenance Valve shipped a bug that made private Steam achievement lists public. Aggregators such as Exophase and SteamDB ingested them. Exophase owner Mike Bendel called it a Valve API error, not a hack. Unnamed apps showed up as AppIDs.

Named so far: Fable, Persona 6, Kingdom Hearts 4, Control Resonant, Gears of War: E-Day, Clutch, Horizon Hunters Gathering, Ace Combat 8, Metro 2039, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Stranger Than Heaven, Rayman Legends: Retold, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.

This is not the 12TB Steam2 dump. Valve has not commented. GamesIndustry.biz asked.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz

Strongsage went unbeaten through EGB QC Cup #7 on 6 September and 3-0'd dramiS in the grand final. First all-American title match in the seven cups. $100: $88 / $22.

Upper bracket: 2-0 cYpheR, 2-0 dramiS, 2-0 Thri11er in the winners final. dramiS came back through losers over St0n3, k1llsen and Thri11er, then lost 0-3 again.

Second EGB QC Cup title for him after #4. After seven cups: k1llsen 3, Keltz 2, Strongsage 2.

The day before he 3-0'd Thri11er in the NAQCL Duel Tournament #71 grand final. Same 1-2-3 as #70: Strongsage, Thri11er, St0n3. Upper bracket 2-0 klyb, 2-0 Thri11er, 2-0 St0n3. Thri11er through losers over Yup, dramiS, St0n3.

Source: EGB QC Cup #7 / NAQCL #71

Adam "SyncError" Pyle posted a Quake Champions 1.31 PTS changelog in the official Quake Discord on 7 September. It is marked DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRESS - NOT FINAL. The build is not on the Steam PTS client yet.

Today's PTS update reflects our first step towards removing paid Battle Passes and microtransactions in favor of making the champions and vanity content unlocked for everyone.

Listed for removal: Battle Pass, Weekly and Event Challenges, the Store, Platinum and Shard, loot boxes, daily login rewards, Champion Progression shard rewards. Almost all vanity unlocks for everyone. Promo exclusives stay with current owners (AMD Ruby Nyx, Twitch Rocket Launcher, Nvidia Pulsar Railgun). QuakeCon belts and Golden Crowns stay merit-only.

Asked how you rename once the Store is gone:

Change it now if you're interested.

No replacement rename system is announced. Rename tokens are a Store purchase today.

Also in the notes: leveling to 999, kick votes, bot and net/input work, an Adaptive FPS Stabilizer, and QCON 2026 skins for the starting Machinegun, Shotgun, and Nailgun.

He is on a four-week window to finish 1.31.

Source: Quake Discord

Spirit vs MOUZ, BLAST Open Porto grand final. Bo5 LAN at Super Bock Arena, Sunday 6 Sep 14:00 UTC.

Spirit are HLTV #1 and EWC champions, 8-0 on maps this event after 2-0s over DENDELE, G2, FURIA and Falcons (Nuke 13-8, Ancient 13-11). MOUZ are #5, BLAST Bounty Season 2 champions, and just swept Vitality 2-0 in the semis (Dust2 13-11, Mirage 13-7) with Spinx at 1.61.

This is a rematch of the Bounty final on 2 Aug, where MOUZ won 3-1 (Dust2 13-8, Mirage 13-4, Ancient 9-13, Nuke 13-10). Polymarket had Spirit around 79% that day. Spirit have been the better team since; MOUZ already beat them once in a Bo5.

Opening line: Spirit 0.65 (1.54x), MOUZ 0.35 (2.86x). Betting closes 13:50 UTC, ten minutes before the start.



Source: HLTV

Gametype: Duel
Map: DM2
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: Thump4
Version info: ezquake
How to play back Q1 demos


Quakecon 2026 - Retro Classic Tournament

Featuring Quake Live, Quake II, and QuakeWorld

Map 3 - Quakeworld - Grand Finals

Gametype: Duel
Map: DM6 - The Dark Zone
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: Thump4
Version info: ezquake
How to play back Q1 demos


Quakecon 2026 - Retro Classic Tournament

Featuring Quake Live, Quake II, and QuakeWorld

Map 3 - Quakeworld - Winner Bracket Finals

BLAST Open Porto playoffs opened at Super Bock Arena. Two quarterfinals, both done. $1.1 million pool.

Falcons 2-0 G2. Inferno 13-6 on G2's pick, 11-1 at half. Dust2 13-9. NiKo 37-24 (1.54), kyousuke 36-26. Falcons are the IEM Cologne Major winners. G2 take $75,000 and go home.

FURIA 1-2 Vitality. FURIA took Nuke 13-6 (10-2 half). Vitality took Cache 13-11, then Dust2 13-4. jL is still standing in for mezii. Vitality opened this event 0-2 to Inner Circle. They are through.

Saturday: Spirit vs Falcons 14:00 UTC, then MOUZ vs Vitality 17:30 UTC. Sunday Bo5 final 14:00 UTC. Winner $150,000 plus $100,000 club share.

Streams: BLASTPremier

Source: HLTV

Alinea Analytics has Steam at $15 billion gross for January through August 2026. Up about 15% on the same stretch last year, and already more than all of 2023. They think the year finishes well above $20 billion for the first time.

New 2026 games are not carrying it. The top six new releases are under $1 billion combined, about 6.6% of the total:

• Forza Horizon 6: $210.5 million
• Crimson Desert: $203.3 million
• Resident Evil Requiem: $200.9 million
• Slay the Spire 2: $148 million
• Subnautica 2: $139.2 million
• Meccha Chameleon: $89.8 million

The top 100 new 2026 games are about $2.4 billion, 15.9%. 63% of those titles are new IP. 52.5% of that revenue is still established franchises.

Steam has logged about 19,000 new releases this year already, on pace with all of 2025 and past 2024. Alinea flags the generative-AI dump as the next problem for anyone trying to get seen.

These are estimates, not Valve's books.

Source: Alinea Analytics

Archon Studio put up a cooperative playthrough of Quake: The Board Game. Rangers fight through a facility, recover Runic Keys, and seal an unstable Slipgate before it implodes.



Players plan at the same time with Action Cards. Slam lets you dump cards for extra movement, attacks, or heals. The deck is also ammo, stamina, and your connection to the server: spend too many without restocking and you cannot finish the round. Killing monsters and grabbing loot puts cards back.

Enemies run off a Control Card deck. Maps have High Ground, Low Ground, jumping, and jump pads. The co-op campaign is what they showed. Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch are still planned.

The Gamefound page is a campaign preview, not live pledging. About 13,000 followers. 1-4 players, about 60 minutes, 14+. Named expansions: Flesh and Runes (original Quake) and Stroggification (Quake 2 / 4). Archon has said rocket jumps are in.

Source: Archon Studio

The official StarCraft website is glitching on purpose. Images twitch. Text flashes. The page still sells StarCraft Remastered. The source does not.

Fans opened the JavaScript console and found a failed Terran Dominion login (user 2560037-DA, flagged, told to contact the service desk), a refused request for "special order 176," and a 2575 memo from a redacted first sergeant. Theta Squadron is inbound to the Roxara lunar mining complex. A freighter lands first. The crates are "pivotal to our research." Handle them carefully. Every scrap so far is Terran-only. No Zerg. No Protoss.

2575 is about 70 years after StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void.

Same week, Korea's Chosun said Nexon is close to a deal with Blizzard for a StarCraft successor. First pass sounded like an IP sale. Later wording is a development license. Genre is still a mess: some of the Korean reporting says StarCraft 3, older reporting said a Nexon shooter, and Blizzard was separately incubating an open-world shooter under former Far Cry lead Dan Hay. Two StarCraft shooters at once is a stretch. An RTS from Nexon is the other rumor. Nobody has confirmed either.

BlizzCon is 12-13 September. Opening ceremony 17:30 UTC on the 12th. Day-one main stage has an unexplained hour gap. The floor map has no StarCraft booth, so if something is announced it is probably not playable there.

Blizzard has not commented. Nexon has not commented.

Source: Polygon

NVIDIA has a date for DLSS 5. It goes live 3 September at 21:00 PT in NBA 2K27, on RTX 50-series cards, laptops, and GeForce NOW. Nothing older. NVIDIA says it needs Blackwell's fifth-generation Tensor cores.

Older DLSS fills in pixels and extra frames. This one paints lighting and materials the engine never drew: skin, hair, contact shadows, light through ears. Faces in the March GTC demos came out looking like a different person. Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft got memed as yassified. People called it AI slop. A few Capcom and Ubisoft staff said they found out their games were in NVIDIA's reel when everyone else did. Jensen Huang told Tom's Hardware the critics were "completely wrong."

Since then NVIDIA has added sliders, three models, and masks so developers can leave faces alone. The launch game is NBA 2K27.

With DLSS 5, players will see how light naturally passes through player ears, the natural lighting of skin, and how light catches hair.

NVIDIA's charts have an RTX 5090 at 370fps in 4K Ultra with ray tracing, which includes the rest of the DLSS stack and a lot of generated frames. The neural pass itself is supposedly a 50-60% hit. In March this ran on two 5090s; now it runs on one.


How much better would this make Quake. We may never know.

Source: NVIDIA