Quake Champions hits Early Access for $30 on August 22

Id Software announced today that its multiplayer first-person shooter Quake Champions will transition from its closed testing phase to Early Access on August 22. To play the game in Early Access, you need to buy the Champions Pack for $30. That’s $10 cheaper than it’s final $40 retail price.

Quake Champions is a PC-only arena shooter, a kind of multiplayer FPS that focuses on fast-paced deathmatch action. The Quake series was one of the first to popularize the subgenre with Quake III Arena in 1999. However, the franchise has gone dormant since 2010’s Quake Live, which itself was a simple browser version of Quake III Arena.