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Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 Begins Today

Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 Begins Today

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If it feels like AGDQ 2019 snuck up on you this year, you’re not alone in that sentiment. It hasn’t been moved up — Awesome Games Done Quick has always been held during the first full week of the year. From this point forward, mark your calendars right after New Years. The world-famous charity speedrun event has now been going for nine years and has managed to get bigger each time. It now pulls in millions for the charities it represents (typically, Prevent Cancer or Doctors Without Borders….the event streaming now supports Prevent Cancer). 100% of donated cash goes to the organization….the cost of running the show is covered by sponsors, whose logos appear during the stream. It’s gonna be a great AGDQ 2019. Today alone we have Hollow Knight, a two-player Donkey Kong Country race, Majora’s Mask, Shadow of the Colossus, MGS2, Portal and Bomberman 64. In the days ahead you can look forward to Vectorman, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, NiER Automata, Super Mario RPG, Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2018

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2018

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One week, over 150 speedruns: Awesome Games Done Quick bashed and broke our favorite video games for charity and did it with style. Each year has raised more money than the previous year (with the exception of 2016). It was tight until the end, but when the final tally was in, AGDQ 2018 beat last year’s record by $40,000. The event raised $2,263,508.19 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Since you likely don’t have a solid week of spare time to watch the entire thing, here are the best and most memorable speedruns we saw during the event…. One early speedrun made the mindbending promise that all the bosses in Donkey Kong Country could be beaten in reverse order. DKC is such a linear game we didn’t see how it would be possible. But with clever glitch exploitation and RNG manipulation, the player was able to jump around the map and fulfill his promise. The exception was K.Rool, since beating him ends the game. One of the newest games exhibited was

Awesome Games Done Quick Returns This Sunday

Awesome Games Done Quick Returns This Sunday

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Late this weekend, Games Done Quick will return with a new logo and seven full days of breaking the most popular video games, in the name of defeating cancer! This year’s AGDQ will take place within a banquet hall in Herndon, Virginia. Though corporate sponsors usually have their logos on the screen, they are only paying for the setup and staff. 100% of donations go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This year’s lineup may prove controversial. Shockingly, Super Metroid has been left off the list for the first time in years, depriving the marathon of one of its most lucrative goals, “Save/Kill The Animals.” Also, don’t expect very many of 2017’s most popular games….as entertaining as a zip-through of Cuphead or Super Mario Odyssey might be, the games simply weren’t old enough at the time of submission for speedrunner skills to be properly honed (though I would point out that Mario Odyssey is already one of the most popular games currently being used for competitive speedrunning). But there will be

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2017

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2017

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Another Games Done Quick marathon has come to a close, and this one was their biggest ever! For the first time in GDQ history, the event raised over $2,000,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation — twice as much cash as what GDQ generated one year ago. And what an event it was! If you missed the stream and you don’t have the time to watch a literal week’s worth of footage, we’ve pruned the entire marathon to its most memorable moments…. This year there were a lot more competitive races and less glitch-exploiting single-player playthroughs. There was this early on, however: player Jaguar King rushing through Metal Gear Solid 2’s most brutal difficulty setting like a knife through butter. But if it’s races you wanted, you got your donation money’s worth. This four-player simultaneous race through Super Mario Sunshine gets nail-bitingly close toward its finish. The Awful Games Block is always pure joy….and they picked some stinkers this time! Check out Timecop: Donkey Kong 5: And the bizarre “educational” lupine

2017’s Awesome Games Done Quick Begins Today

2017’s Awesome Games Done Quick Begins Today

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Whoever you are, whatever you’ve got going on in your life, make sure you clear room in your schedule for some Awesome Games that are Done Quick. The world’s most fun-to-watch charity marathon is back for another week of live nonstop gaming, much of it filled with crazy sequence-breaking tricks and complicated glitches performed with the precision of an Olympic athlete (thumb-wise). The Prvent Cancer Foundation is the recipient of the cash that will be generated by this marathon, as they have been in several Januarys past. In past marathons AGDQ has raised over a million dollars for the foundation; this year should be no different (but whether they pull it off or not is on you). Your donation dollar not only benefits the sick but can usually be used as a voting ballot to decide what name the players should call their characters in an upcoming game. Sometimes attractions and stunts will be offered as donation goals if a certain revenue number is hit by a deadline. The full

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2016

The Most HYPE Moments From Awesome Games Done Quick 2016

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Games Done Quick returned once again last week, raising over $1.2 million for cancer research through the method of beating popular games as quickly as possible. Most of the marathon is now archived on the GDQ YouTube channel (as I write this the final day has yet to show up), and if you missed it, here are the best parts of the week in their entirety…. The highest point of joy in the entire marathon was the Super Mario Maker challenge, embedded above. Eight of the SMM community’s most notorious designers created previously unseen custom levels for two teams of four players to race through as fast as possible. If you have anything important to do right now, forget it and watch this instead — you won’t be sorry. Show starts at minute 26. The Metroid Prime speedrun was quite a sight to behold; the player found a shortcut in nearly every room. You wouldn’t believe the game could be broken like this if you hadn’t seen it. A new

Awesome Games Done Quick Begins Today!

Awesome Games Done Quick Begins Today!

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Every January and July, the most skilled gamers from across the country meet to blaze through, break and dominate your favorite video games in a weeklong marathon for a worthy cause. It’s Games Done Quick, back once again under its “Awesome” variation for another week of insane live plowthroughs. The full schedule can be found here. Highlights for the first day include Splatoon, Diddy Kong Racing, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (how do you speedrun through this? You’ll have to watch to find out) and a three-person competitive Super Mario 64 race for 120 stars. Donating is tax-deductible (though since the new year just happened, you’ll have to wait a while) and every donation puts you in the running for something rare and valuable. Prizes offered depend on the hour and the game currently being played. The charity this time is the Prevent Cancer Foundation, the only U.S. nonprofit organization solely devoted to cancer prevention and early detection. You can watch the festivities online at gamesdonequick.com or on anything that

The Best of Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

The Best of Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

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Awesome Games Done Quick is a weeklong charity event that has been running for the last two years in which some of the Internet’s best and fastest players plow through the most popular games live, as quickly as they possibly can, for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This year’s marathon raised over a million dollars and had plenty of great moments for those watching live, but for those who didn’t, most of those moments have been archived on the AGDQ YouTube channel. Since watching them all would literally take a week, here are the highlights: The race through Banjo-Kazooie was one of the first taken and one of the most interesting. They spent about three minutes in each world and got everything. I Wanna Be The Boshi is an amateur game, starring tons of ripped sprites, created by someone whose brother complained that notoriously hard platformer I Wanna Be The Guy was too EASY. Watch the player zip through some of the hardest areas ever witnessed, like an entire room covered