Speedrunning charity event Summer Games Done Quick finished up this past Sunday. The recipient of the funds raised druing the event, which saw players rushing as fast as possible through titles like Animaniacs, Pikimin 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider, went to benefit Doctors Without Borders. Gamers raised $ 2,122,529.20 for the medical charity […]
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild speedrunners are taking down the game in less than an hour
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Speedrunners Compete To See Who Can Beat Samurai Pizza Cats And Other NES Games The Fastest
Speedrunner Coolkid, aka DaBiGBoOi, won this weekend’s sixth ever Best of NES Big 20 Race, a competition in which players see who can finish a bunch of old NES games the fastest. His time? 2:44:11. It was over ten minutes ahead of the second place finisher, Jaguar King, and better than anything the players had […]
Tales Speedrunners Race Through Grand Epics In A Few Hours
For a certain subset of folks, speedrunning—the art of beating a video game as quickly as possible—is their window into competitive gaming. But if speedrunning Super Mario World is a 100-meter sprint, a Tales race is a marathon: superficially similar but wildly different. This weekend, the RPG Limit Break channel on Twitch is streaming a […]