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Ordinarily Games Done Quick waits until summer to launch their summer-branded marathon, but this year they’re getting started early. SGDQ 2023 starts this Sunday, May 28, decidedly late spring. It’s the earliest SGDQ ever; hopefully it won’t catch people off-guard or result in lower donation numbers. Because GDQ does good things. Games Done Quick’s bi-annual marathons gather together the top speedrunners from around the country and set them to work demolishing all your favorite games in the name of charity. Viewers can donate cash to enter for prizes, vote in polls and sponsor bonus runs. To date, GDQ has raised over $43 million for various charities. As always, the summer version of this event benefits Doctors Without Borders. Highlights from the upcoming week include a blindfolded speedrun of Breath of the Wild, an eight-per-team Super Mario Maker 2 relay race, a glitchless Elden Ring run, the entire Elder Scrolls Anthology on PC, and Ring Fit Adventure (somehow). Other scheduled games include Bugsnax, Sonic Frontiers, Hi-Fi RUSH, Metal Gear Solid: The

It’s back! The pandemic has crushed many things, but not even its forces can take down GDQ! Another marathon begins this weekend, though it will look a bit different than what we’re used to. Originally, Summer Games Done Quick 2020 was to be held from June 21-28 in Bloomington, Minnesota. The event was delayed to August, and a special weekend edition was held in April which raised $400,000 for Direct Relief. In June it was announced that this year’s SGDQ would be held entirely online, just like the weekend edition was. “We will move the event to online-only, broadcasting the event from our studio with participants performing speedruns from the safety of their homes,” explained the staff in a post to the official website. So it’s back again. The race kicks off with a speedrun of Demon’s Souls at 9 AM Pacific, followed by ICO, Metal Gear Solid and Secret of Mana later in the day. Monday brings with it Hollow Knight, both Portals, a playthrough of Witcher 3 that

THREE MILLION DOLLARS! Summer Games Done Quick shattered their previous record late last night (which was 2.5 million, set at AGDQ just six months ago). The video game charity speedrunning event pulled in $3,004,039 for Doctors Without Borders by the time the feed was shut off, and when the final count is made it may be higher. Even more remarkable: that extra million was generated entirely within the last day of the marathon. It was a very fruitful week for great speedruns as well. Since watching them all would take seven whole days of your time, we’ve pared the playlist down to the defining moments. Don’t miss these: It’s one thing to play a game…..it’s another to pull it off blindfolded, and even more impressive to do this for over an hour and beat the entire thing. Runner zallard did this with Punch-Out, and became the true underdog champion. The Resident Evil 2 remake is barely old enough to be teething, and yet here it is being torn apart already.

The summer incarnation of Games Done Quick is off and running! The world’s most skilled game players are breaking your favorite games as fast as possible in a week-long marathon, streamed live on Twitch! There are contests and prizes involved as well. As for the charity, every summer for the past few years has raised cash for Doctors Without Borders, and this year is no different. Watch great games be annihilated and make a tax-deductible donation. The event began at 10 AM this morning with a one-handed playthrough of NieR: Automata (from a disabled yet skilled gamer who can only use his left hand). Later on in the day you’ll see lightning-fast playthroughs of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, Metroid Prime and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Some fairly long titles are in the lineup this year. Chrono Trigger has made its return, but it won’t be the final act (that honor will go to EarthBound, which also takes a while). But neither of them hold a candle to Final Fantasy