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Summer Games Done Quick 2022 has come and gone. This year's event pulled in over $3 million (USD) for charity and was full of ridiculous runs, various incentives, and a few cases of "that's never happened before." One run in particular, the one for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, seemed to pull in a lot of hype.

Metal Gear Rising also happened to be one of the games that had an incentive. If enough money was donated,...

Speedruns for Nioh have been underway roughly a day or two after the game was released. The game has proven especially popular with runners that favor games like the Dark Souls franchise and Bloodborne. Speedrunner Distortion2 is no stranger to either of those games, often trading world records with his fellow runners over at Speedsouls. Distortion2 is the "current" world record holder (as of February 21, 2017) in Nioh with a time for doing all main missions of 1:36:51. Due to how new ...

Speedruns for Nioh have been underway roughly a day or two after the game was released. The game has proven especially popular with runners that...

Hey, do you like watching events like SGDQ and AGDQ? Yeah? You also like helping out charity? Cool, me too! That's why you should check out ESA 2016! The European Speedrunner Assembly is again holding its week long charity marathon of some amazing games to benefit charity.

This year, the charity is none other than Save the Children.
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Hey, do you like watching events like SGDQ and AGDQ? Yeah? You also like helping out charity? Cool, me too! That's why you should check out ESA...

Just a little note to say that Summer Games Done Quick 2016, or SGDQ2016 for those on social media, is once again upon us. The annual charity drive is here again to benefit Doctors Without Borders. You get to experience nearly a week of various games finished as quickly as possible, some with glitches, some without.
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Just a little note to say that Summer Games Done Quick 2016, or SGDQ2016 for those on social media, is once again upon us. The annual charity drive...

The world of speedrunning for the NES classic title Super Mario Bros. comes down to a matter of frames. We're not talking seconds or minutes here, we're literally talking about individual frames. Darbian is a Super Mario Bros. speedrunner that has been hard at work trying to perfect the game for ages now. He previously set the world record back on October 18, 2015 with a time of 4:57.627. That record was beaten yesterday by none other than darbian himself. His new time is a mind blow...

The world of speedrunning for the NES classic title Super Mario Bros. comes down to a matter of frames. We're not talking seconds or minutes here,...

Starting tomorrow at 1PM (ET), Summer Games Done Quick 2015 will officially kick off. This annual event is once again going to showcase some of your favorite (and not so favorite) games over the course of seven days where some of the best speedrunners in the world will be showcased.

This rapid fire sequence of games will raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
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Starting tomorrow at 1PM (ET), Summer Games Done Quick 2015 will officially kick off. This annual event is once again going to showcase some of...

Awesome Games Done Quick 2015, otherwise known as AGDQ 2015 (or #AGDQ2015), kicked off just a short time ago today. As always, this event will span about a full week and aims to raise both money and awareness for charity. This year's charity is the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Now, there are multiple ways you can help out.

1. You can either donate directly through the GDQ website.
2. You can pick up a special AGDQ 2015 Humble Bundle, so you donate and get some fun games.
3. You

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Awesome Games Done Quick 2015, otherwise known as AGDQ 2015 (or #AGDQ2015), kicked off just a short time ago today. As always, this event will span about...

Famous speedrunner Cosmo recently broke the world record for shortest time to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The run was completed in 18 minutes and 10 seconds. This run is the culmination of years of work and research from the speed running community, countless hours of practice, and a touch of good luck thrown in for good measure. He says that this is "the greatest speedrun (he's) ever done." The video below offers up his in-depth commentary on the entire run and what went i...