id Software will add a free Slaughter Mode to DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations in November. Hugo Martin announced it on Slayers Club Live. There is no date inside the month.

It is endless single-player: escalating demon waves across several arenas, cosmetics, and a personal best by score and by round reached.

Source: IGN

ARSENY won 250 FPS Season 6 Qualifier 2 on 4 October, beating fire_bot 3-0 in the grand final.
15 players. The prize is a Division 1 slot.
He did not drop a series: 2-0 WPHK1991, 2-0 rell, 2-0 Radist_dk, then 2-1 Fog in the winners final.
fire_bot lost 0-2 to Fog and came back through the lower bracket.

Ten of the twelve Division 1 places are filled.
He joins H3LLDOWN and the eight invites: AGENT, cYpheR, k1llsen, cherepoff, pavel, ash, baksteen and Spart1e.
The last two qualifiers are 11 October and 18 October.

250 FPS put him 5th in the EGB ranking, with 3 wins in Season 5.

Source: 250 FPS

Germany won the QL European Nations Cup after the TDM leg on 4 October.
Three online Sundays: CTF on 20 September, duel on 27 September, TDM on 4 October.

Russia won TDM and beat Germany 2-0 in the grand final.
Germany were second, the UK third, Sweden #1 fourth.
Russia went 12-0 on maps.

Germany finish on 24 (CTF 7, duel 10, TDM 7).
Russia are second on 16 (1, 5, 10). The UK are third, also on 16 (10, 1, 5).
Sweden #1 are on 10.
Benelux 6, Slovenia 4, Denmark 3.
Poland, France, the Czech Republic and Sweden #2 are on 1.
Spain finished on 0.

A different nation won each leg: the UK in CTF, Germany in duel, Russia in TDM.

The community pool is 500 euro.
Germany take 250 (200 for the title, 50 for the duel).
Russia take 150 (100 for second, 50 for TDM).
The UK take 100 (50 for third, 50 for CTF).

Source: House of Quake

Astralis beat Nemiga 3-1 in the grand final of Stake Ranked Episode 4 on 4 October in Barcelona.
The pool is $100,000. First is $25,000. Nemiga take $17,500.
Mirage 13-6, Ancient 10-13, Nuke 13-5, Cache 13-7.

They lost the opener 1-2 to Alliance, then won five straight: FaZe 2-1, BIG 2-1, fnatic 2-0, Luminosity 2-1, Nemiga 3-1.

It is the first LAN title since the BLAST Pro Series Global Final in 2019 in Bahrain.
A different roster won Copenhagen Gaming Week in January 2024, a showmatch.

Staehr was 66-49 in the final (1.41), the series high, and 1.27 for the event.
jabbi posted 2.30 on Mirage.
Staehr was 2.02 on Nuke and took an ace clutch on Cache.

It feels nice to finally lift a trophy.

NEO, to HLTV. He took the coach job in the summer.

HLTV has Astralis back in the top 10 for the first time since June.

Source: HLTV

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