I've been working on Dinoblast, a fast FPS that runs in the browser: no install, no account. dinoblast.net
Movement
Race mode (the current focus)
Coming next
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. AGENT and KAK_AGENT, then cYpheR and rell, and lost the rematch 1-3. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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
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. cYpheR, AGENT, ash, pavel, k1llsen, cherepoff, baksteen, and Spart1e.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.
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. cYpheR won EGB Cup Final #3 on 20 September, beating k1llsen 4-3 in the grand final. $500: $300 / $100. ash third. 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.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. cYpheR, 2-0 Yup. Thri11er through losers 2-0 klyb after the first loss. cYpheR went unbeaten through EGB Cup #68 on 12 September and 3-0'd k1llsen in the grand final. $51: $41 / $10. AGENT at #66 and #67. Last regular QL duel before EGB Cup Final #3 on 19 September ($500).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.
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. 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.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
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Spirit vs 
MOUZ, BLAST Open Porto grand final. Bo5 LAN at Super Bock Arena, Sunday 6 Sep 14:00 UTC.
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. 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.
BLASTPremierAlinea 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:
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
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
the event was shut-down before the LB final between ZeRo4 and elp could be played (I think).They started playing T4 and when the score was 8-8 between them as network died for good. The organizers didn't care anymore at that point but the players wanted to proceed, regardless of the cash (which was never payed out in the end). So they connected Zero4s computer directly to elpajuo, however, the organizers then proceeded to shut down all power as well, so there wasn't much for them to do.
Alchemist03
Alchemist03
Yeah that's what I meant, that all of them would stop playing completely between official tournaments! a gift for you
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"Quake live has brought quite a few players back to the scene. Which comeback to the Quake competitive scene would you rather see (as a player)?"
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czm: 24% (79)As you can see, your claim that "half those players never placed top3 in a duel tournament", was entirely inaccurate. Almost all of them have won at least one LAN tournament.
#1 QIL4
Fatal1ty: 18% (60)
#1 XSReality Invitational
toxjq: 17% (56)
#1 Dreamhack winter 2005
uNkind: 12% (41)
#1 WCG 2002
LeXeR: 4.8% (16)
#1 QuakeCon 2002
Thresh: 3.6% (12)
#1 Red Annihilation
LakermaN: 3.3% (11)
#1 Lan Arena 4
Stelam: 3.3% (11)
#1 Lan Arena 5
ZeRo4: 1.8% (6)
#1 QuakeCon 2001
Polosatiy: 1.8% (6)
#1 AMD PG Challenge 2003
PELE: 1.8% (6)
#1 RazerCPL Qualifier
Blue: 1.5% (5)
#1 CPL Asia
socrates: 1.5% (5)
#1 WCG USA 2002
DOOMer: 1.5% (5)
#1 Swedish Quake Championships
elpajuo: 1.2% (4)
#1 Cyber X-Games
Makaveli: 0.9% (3)
#2 XSReality Invitational
Sujoy: 0.9% (3)
#3 Ground Zero
cha0ticz: 0.6% (2)
Can't remember any
Blokey: 0.3% (1)
#1 XSReality AMD Cup (this was a duel tournament but not alone though).
Daler: 0.3% (1)
#1 ION Games
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ja ja ve ve
Godservant
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since hes already back in quake :)