alexametrics
Games

About the game

Quake Champions

Quake Champions is an arena shooter that added Champions, each with unique attributes and abilities for players to master.​​​​
Quake Champions Articles

Playdate unleashes the crank on Doom's chaingun and it's awesome

Even the developer admits that game development for Playdate, the cute yellow handheld that uses a crank, eventually had to end up here. Doom. Chaingun. Crank. It just flows.

Quake Champions offers all champions for free during QuakeCon

Bethesda's promotions around QuakeCon have already started with discounts all over the place and an opportunity to grab all the champions in Quake Champions for free.

Nvidia plan to remaster more classic PC titles with ray tracing effects

quake 2 screenshot showing a ruined room
Nvidia will be adding ray tracing support to more PC classics in the near future. The company has revealed its plans in the latest job posting, which mentioned some of the greatest titles from the past decades.

QuakeCon: Year of Doom will have live gameplay of Doom Eternal

Doom Eternal key art
Bethesda have posted a detailed schedule of this year's QuakeCon and in honour of Doom's 25th anniversary, it will be called QuakeCon: Year of Doom. Among its features are the first live gameplay demo of Doom Eternal, Fallout 76 and more.

Nvidia add ray tracing to Quake II and Wolfenstein: Youngblood

quake 2 screenshot showing a ruined room
Nvidia officially confirmed that arena shooter Quake II is getting ray tracing support on 06 June 2019. The upgrade will be free. Furthermore, Bethesda's upcoming shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood will also support the feature on launch.

Quake Champions update introduces Season 2 and a ton of features

Weapons and cosmetics from Quake Champions' March 2019 update
Quake Champions has received a hefty update that introduces Season 2 of id Software's shooter, adds custom game and PTS for everyone, a truckload of cosmetics, smarter bot behaviour, crosshair size, balance changes and a bunch more.

Quake Champions shaking it up in December, loot boxes going away

Backpack, Quake Champions' version of loot boxes
Bethesda and id Software have decided to shake up the monetisation game in Quake Champions and as of the December update, the game is doing away with loot boxes in favour of the battle pass system, which offers non-random progression.

Quake Champions patch introduces new champion, nerfs heavies

A Quake champion in-game screenshot
Bethesda and id Software have rolled out a hefty patch for Quake Champions, introducing a new champion called Eisen, three new arcade modes, a nerf pass on all heavy champions with an equal buff pass on light ones and a bunch more.

Quake Champions dev says battle royale is nothing new

Character from Quake Champions standing in a doorway
Studio director of the legendary developer id Software, Tim Willits recently commented how battle royale is nothing new and that Quake already had a similar concept through community mods, before adding that copying others gets you nowhere.

Quake Champions gets a throwback to the maps of old

Longest Yard, a newly added Quake Champions map
Bethesda and id Software's shooter Quake Champions has received a hefty update that adds a bottomless QuakeTM map called Longest Yard along with arcade modes, Trespasser shotgun skin and a host of champion balance changes and tweaks.