The Quantum Times
No. 1Sunday, October 11, 2026Early access · free to play
Built this week
The city opens its doors
Quantum Drift is in early access: free to play while we build it with the people playing it. Here is what went in over the last two weeks.
Fri, Oct 9
Central Park, the Upper West and East Sides, Harlem, East Harlem and Washington Heights joined the map. Walk it, drive it or fly it.
Thu, Oct 8
Open roads, cars and comic stands
The blocks are joined by open streets. Climb into a parked car, race the time trial, join the destruction derby, and stop at a comic stand on the corner.
Thu, Oct 8
Warehouse training: twelve lessons and a raid
Learn to sneak, listen, climb and fight as a team, one short lesson at a time. The last lesson is the real thing: five floors down to the Titan in the vault.
Tue, Oct 6
Fly the city as Bingo in her rocket suit. Chain tricks together for a combo, corkscrew straight up, cut the engine and free-fall, land on a roof and launch off the edge.
Tue, Oct 6
The hacking course, missions 1 to 8
The certification course inside the mainframe: sneak past scanners, crack the doors, and finish with a brawl in the CPU socket.
Tue, Oct 6
Everyone meets in Times Square
The square is the meeting place. Two fortune machines deal out missions, and everyone gets a jet pack to fly off with.
Sun, Oct 4
Pick the 3D body your character wears in the city, human or mech, and choose its colours.
This week in the city
What the players did
Sunday, October 4 to Saturday, October 10
1 new character joined
Welcome to the city. Yours could be next: make a character.
This week’s competition
Highest sky run of the week
The biggest single score in Bingo’s sky run wins.
- Fly the sky run and bank your best score.
- Take a screenshot with the score on screen.
- Post it on the Community page (sign in, then “Post something else”).
There is no scoreboard yet: your best score is kept in your own browser, so the screenshot is your entry.
The prize: Your character’s name and your run on the front page of next week’s Quantum Times.
Closes Saturday 17 October, midnight Pacific
Bring a friend
The city is better with your crew
Send a friend your link. Making a character and playing are free, and you get someone to run missions with.
Calling 3D artists
Make a special move
Make special-move animations for Quantum Drift. Your name goes in the credits. Every player body in the city shares one skeleton, so a move you make works on every character in the game.
Keep the lights on
The donation box
Never required. Everything stays free to play. If you want to help pay for the servers and the build, drop something in the box.
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