# Quake 30th Anniversary Update

- Product: Quake (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/quake)
- Vendor: id Software
- Date: 2026-08-06
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- **added** — Add a new episode called Dawn of the Machine created in collaboration with MachineGames
- **added** — Include ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms in the new episode

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, **Dawn of the Machine**, now available as a free update to Quake.

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##### **🆕WHAT'S NEW**

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##### **⚙️DAWN OF THE MACHINE**

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Celebrating 30 years of Quake, 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 th

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