The group stage of 250 FPS QL League Season 5 is over after 11 round-robin weeks, 66 matches, and 154 maps. AGENT and cYpheR both finished 10-1 and take the top seeds into the double-elim finals. k1llsen is 3rd at 9-2. cherepoff, pavel, and ash take the last three slots.

WB R1 on Sunday, August 29 at 11:00 UTC is cherepoff vs pavel, then k1llsen vs ash. AGENT and cYpheR sit in the winners semis. Lower bracket is Bo3, winners Bo5, grand final Bo7. The champion gets $1,000 from a $5,500 season pool.

baksteen and Spart1e missed the six-man cut at 5-6 but locked Season 6 group-stage spots. Furious Heights (20.8%) and Silence (18.8%) ate the map pool; Aerowalk was picked seven times, Vertical Vengeance once.

Bracket, streams, and results: Plus Forward, 250fps.com

Source: Plus Forward

k1llsen went undefeated through EGB QC Cup #5 on Sunday, then 3-0'd danches in the Quake Champions time-limit duel grand final.

The weekly EGB cup was an $80 double-elim bracket, Bo3 until the final. k1llsen never dropped a map in winners: 2-0 over danches in WB R2, 2-0 Yup, then 2-0 Thri11er in the winners final. danches took the long way back, beating creeep, klyb, cYpheR, Yup, and Thri11er out of losers before running into k1llsen again at 19:15 UTC. The rematch was a sweep. Thri11er finished 3rd, Yup 4th.

"another EGB Cup in the pocket this time Quake Champions DUEL," k1llsen posted after the match. His winner POV of the full cup is up on YouTube.



It is k1llsen's second solo title in the series after Cup #3, and it comes a day after he and rapha 3-0'd ANTOWKA and st0n3 to win EGB Cup 2v2 #2.

Source: Plus Forward, EGB, k1llsen

Rockstar Games and Netflix are teaming up for "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look," a new video presentation premiering exclusively on Netflix Thursday, August 27 at 3 p.m. ET. It's the first major game trailer to debut on a streaming service rather than YouTube. Patience pays off for non-subscribers: the same video hits Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official GTA VI site six hours later, at 9 p.m. ET.

What it'll actually show is unconfirmed. No GTA VI trailer so far has included gameplay, but the extended format has fueled speculation it could go beyond a cinematic trailer into mechanics or on-screen UI. Netflix's VP of Nonfiction Series, Brandon Riegg, called the partnership recognition that "Grand Theft Auto reveals have become cultural moments in their own right."

The game itself is confirmed for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19, 2026, capping a development cycle Rockstar has been running for 13 years.

Source: Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look - Rockstar Games

Multiple market-research firms released updated esports industry sizing this year, and they don't agree by a wide margin. ResearchAndMarkets puts the current market at $3.6 billion in 2026, growing at a 20.8% CAGR to $7.7 billion by 2030 -- but a separate ResearchAndMarkets release projects growth all the way to $17.42 billion by 2031, an implied 29.8% CAGR. Grand View Research lands closer to the conservative end ($3.3 billion in 2026, $12 billion by 2033), while Mordor Intelligence puts today's market well above the rest at $5.34 billion, growing more slowly (4.89% CAGR) to $6.78 billion by 2031.

The spread comes down to what each firm counts. Analysts note that including gambling and streaming revenue alongside traditional esports income (sponsorships, media rights, tickets, merchandise, publisher fees) roughly doubles the estimated market size, from around $3.3-3.5 billion up toward $4.8 billion or higher.

What the reports agree on: sponsorship investment, digital viewership, and major tournament ecosystems (this month's Esports World Cup finale in Paris among them) keep expanding. How big that translates to in dollar terms depends entirely on which report you read.

Source: E-Sports Market Report - Research and Markets, Esports Market Size Report - Grand View Research

Quake Champions designer Adam "SyncError" Pyle was among the roughly 136 id Software staff cut last month as part of Microsoft's wider Xbox restructuring. In response, the community has started a Change.org petition asking Microsoft to bring him back.

The petition credits Pyle as the driving force behind Quake Champions in recent years, pointing to his work on updates, community communication, and tournament support as key to keeping the game active. It has been circulating across the Quake Champions Steam Community hub and Quake-focused forums since the layoffs were confirmed.

Read more from the community:

Sources: Change.org petition, Plus Forward

QuakeCon returned to the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas from August 6-9, drawing more than 10,000 registered attendees for the event's 30th anniversary. The four-day BYOC hall ran around the clock with freeplay, tabletop gaming, and community tournaments across Quake Champions, Quake Live, and DOOM II, including a $2,000 Retro Classic bracket spanning Quake 1, II, and Live.

The biggest announcement landed within hours of the doors opening: MachineGames shipped Dawn of the Machine, a free 19-map Quake episode with new progression mechanics and a new Deathmatch map, released day one across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch 2 via backward compatibility.

The anniversary also brought a rare reunion: John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, and Tom Hall shared a ticketed panel to mark three decades of id Software. It came only weeks after a WARN notice confirmed Microsoft's Xbox division had cut 136 of the studio's roughly 185 employees, about 74 percent of the team, giving the founders' return more weight than a nostalgia lap.

Sources: Bethesda Slayers Club, Blue's News

Celebrating three decades of Quake in this special anniversary showdown, the Quakecon 30th Retro Classic took place over the weekend. It was the only event managed by Quakecon this year. The event was a double-elimination duel tournament where competitors battled through best-of-three matches across Quakeworld (ezquake with qcon ruleset), Quake II (q2pro with anticheat) and Quake Live (via steam) to crown the Retro Classic Champion.

Of the 32 competitors included makaveli, czm (first tournament since ~2012), fiend, dramis, Kev! among others

The official bracket for this year's main tournament, the $2,000.00 QuakeCon 30th Anniversary Retro Classic, was managed and tracked live on toornament.

The tournament concluded with a multi-generational group of players making it to the final stages.

Fnal Standings & Payouts:

🥇 1st Place: Thump4 ($1,000.00)
🥈 2nd Place: czm ($600.00)
🥉 3rd Place: Burner / Twitch ($400.00)

I was hoping for a new single player title and not an expansion for Q1 but here we are.

"To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, the award-winning team at MachineGames in collaboration with id Software returns with Dawn of the Machine, a brutal new episode building on their critically acclaimed work on Dimension of the Machine and Dimension of the Past.

Ranger is trapped in a dimension of endless illusion reliving the same violent cycles for what feels like lifetimes, dying thousands of times in a futile attempt to escape. Wearied but unbroken, he has heard rumor of the Nightmare machine"

Le-LAN is announcing a 1826 CHF CASH prize pool for this year's Quake Live duel tournament.

3rd edition of our LAN, March 25-28, 2027, Grosse Reithalle Winterthur, Switzerland. Up to 300 attendees this time.

Duel, double elimination, Bo3 (grand final Bo5).
Total prize pool: 1826.-(~$2,045). Cash payout at the event:
1st: 1337 CHF (~$1,497)
2nd: 420 CHF (~$470)
3rd: 69 CHF (~$77)

Plus the roaming trophy for the champion and podium medals!

Rules & schedule: https://le-lan.ch/le-tournament_pages/ql.html
Roster so far: https://le-lan.ch/?p=event/v6/tournaments
Sign up: https://le-lan.ch/?#signup (early-bird pricing live)
Discord: https://discord.gg/cnAUtN4Kug

GLHF
le-lan.ch

During Microsoft's latest round of layoffs, Bethesda's Quake community caretaker, SyncError and sponge were among those affected.

SyncError has been with Bethesda for over 20 years, acted as lead Designer for Quake Champions, Associate producer and Community manager for quake live. Basically the caretaker of the quake franchise who kept the game alive through all of its struggles.

Sometimes controversial but always involved with the community.

sponge on the other hand worked as a senior programmer who also interacted with the community.


more on Reddit
and official Discord

A quake 3 arena trick jump movie, not much info gathered.
Worth it for the ospdm6 quad to rail alone

Multiplayer Doom Federation and [RAMPAGE] are pleased to announce the DooM II Take The Crown: Duel Tournament II, with a cash prize of $1000 USD! Players will have four chances to qualify for the final bracket by placing in the Top 4 of one of the one-day qualifying tournaments.

Prize Pool: $1000 USD (60%/25%/10%/5%)


Port: Zandronum 3.3-alpha-260112-1855 https://zandronum.com/download




Servers:

Defaulted based on your region and your opponents region. Two players may agree to play on another server but otherwise must play on the default provided by the admins.

The tournament will be organized out of the Multiplayer Doom Federation Discord server ? you will be able to find further information on signups, rules, and servers. It will also be a place for you to find players to practice with.

>>>MULTIPLAYER DOOM FEDERATION DISCORD SERVER<<<

Check out my first Quake Live movie "Fragged by sm4ll".


Most of the footage was collected between 2010 and 2014, with a few additional clips from 2025+

SOUNDTRACK:
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode
House of Pain - Jump Around
W.A.S.P. - Mean Man
Queen feat. David Bowie - Under Pressure
Bullet For My Valentine - Hand of Blood
Bullet For My Valentine - Waking the Demon
P.O.D. - Boom
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

I hope you enjoy it!

Fragged by sm4ll - YouTube

New QL fragvideo all set and done by Vig1lante featuring 18+ minutes worth of content.


All Frags made between (2017-2025) All frags featured here are from from DUEL, CA, TDM, CTF.

PROGRAMS USED:
WolfcamQL / Wolf Whisperer
Handbrake
Sony Vegas

MUSIC USED / BY:
Eisbrecher: - Besser
3TEETH (Feat Mick Gordon) - What's Left
Youth Code x King Yosef - Head Underwater
KMFDM - Free Your Hate 2025
Nuovo Testamento - Gold

Youtube

The European Duel League 🎄 Christmas Cup (EDLCC#2) is here to light up the holiday season with epic duels and community spirit!

🌟 What’s waiting for you:

Quake 2 1v1 High level competitive matches
Live commentary and festive coverage
Community prizes and holiday surprises

📅 Event Date: [12-14 Dec. 2025]
🌐 Details & sign ups: https://dropslugs.com/
📺 Watch live & subscribe: https://youtube.com/@dropslugs