The Quake soundtrack recently popped up as a coming-soon article in the Nine Inch Nail online store. However you will be struggling to play it in your normal CD player as the release is for a vinyl edition of the soundtrack, which sounds like a nice item for the hardcore Quake fans/collectors to get.

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The first three games in the Quake series are currently 60% off in the GOG (formerly Good Old Games) store, which may be a good opportunity for anyone who haven't paid their Quake taxes to Shub-Niggurath just yet.

For QuakeWorld in particular it's of interest as the popular nQuake package is based on the Shareware version of the game, leaving players with the deathmatch maps and the first episode of the singleplayer part of Quake. If one should buy the game off of GOG (or Steam etc) then one can copy pak1.pak into /nquake/id1/ for a complete version of the game.

More info on the deals at Reddit

xazqe reports in the forum that he has set up a couple of free for all servers as a nod to the long gone classic eDome servers. eDome traditionally had one small server with a mixed map rotation and a larger server with 16 players battling it out on death32c and this is clearly an attempt to rekindle that spirit.

Check out the forum post for details

The 2017 instance of QuakeCon takes place on August 24-27th in the Gaylord Texan Hotel, Dallas. There was recently some good news released with regards to community competitions as the prize purses for a few tournaments were revealed.

There has been quite a bit of 4on4 activity in form of mix games after Qhlan, but the scene hasn't seen almost any official 4on4 games since the last EQL season. To fix that we're launching a new 4on4 ladder style league together with Dev right about now: enter Quakeworld 4on4 Ladder Tournament Season 1.

The eight season of Thunderdome has closed its signups and gone live, i.e. people can start to schede and play their games. With a good amount of 80 signups spread over six tiers, we should see a fun yet competitive tournament. The deadline for the first round of games is the upcoming Tuesday 4th of April so read on to see what the first round of games looks like so you can make the proper arrangements.

Following his recent QHLAN victory, the current QuakeWorld 1on1 champion has decided to start streaming his magic straight into people's living rooms. The stream description gives some insight on what to expect:


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The long running QuakeWorld 1on1 league known as Thunderdome, characterised by its division-based way of pitting players against each other, is about to launch another instance of its popular format in a not too distant future. In this article we look back at the what happened in the previous season as well as what we can expect from the upcoming one, which may be set to start in about a week's time.

QHLAN2017 has been three days of action packed QuakeWorld gaming featuring a bunch of the very best players venturing on a pilgrimage to the Stockholm suburbs of Haninge from all over the world. The event was nothing less than a great success and If you couldn't attend or want to review it all again then the details of this post intends to gather the most important assets to catch up on the event, such as demos, photos and VODs. As some things tend to take time to process, the list will be updated as more (or refined) content becomes available.

Congratulations to all the winners, a big thanks to everyone involved in making QHLAN happen and well played by all the players, you all rock!

DICE Summit takes place this week (Tuesday-Thursday) and the FACEIT crew will be hosting a QuakeWorld gaming celebrity tournament featuring no other than Tim Willits himself among other executives within the industries from companies like Blizzard, Zenimax, Facebook et al.

The games will be streamed on IGN's official Twitch channel and a schedule can be found on the link below.

Update: Congratulations to Tim Willits who ended up victorious after defeating Randy Pitchford in the final!

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