MC_Gamer, also known as MC, has been working on a 100% Zelda challenge for roughly a year now, and just this past weekend they finally accomplished their goal. A 100% Zelda challenge is just as crazy as it sounds -- finishing every game wit...

It's amazing to see an old school community come to live decades after a game was in-demand. Mario Kart 64 was once a staple of so many households (hell it might even still be the kart game of choice for a lot of people), but for many it's ...

(Header photo credit: Michael Kire.) This summer, I used my vacation days to attend the European Speedrunner Assembly Summer 2018, an event held from 21–28 July in Malmö to raise money for Save the Children. On my return to Hambu...

[Update: Congrats Charlotte, you were awesome! For those who missed it, you can catch the VOD here.]The European Speedrunner Assembly 2018 (ESA 2018) is currently taking place in Malmö, Sweden. Hundreds of video game enthusiasts have d...

Another week of amazing speed running mayhem drew to a close yesterday as Summer Games Done Quick 2018 packed up its wild week of death glitches, frame clips, cutscene skips and out-of-bounds shortcuts, all in an an effort to raise top doll...

It's already time for the hottest version of Awesome Games Done Quick, the semi-annual speedrunning event that routinely raises millions of dollars for charity. Summer Games Done Quick kicks off this Sunday June 24 and runs through Saturday...

Speedrunning is a hobby that requires a lot of patience and a lot of hard work. Playing the same game over and over again sounds like a recipe for boredom, particularly if the slightest mishap can ruin an otherwise perfectly good run. In sp...

So, speedrunning. We've heard of it, we watch the marathons sometimes, and we might even make a donation to charity in its name. Not much to talk about, right? I mean, I thought that way for a while, and didn't quite get the fascination. Wh...

Mario games are pretty fun to speedrun. They generally take almost no time to get started (the one in this very article only takes 35 seconds for the opening cutscene to end), and allow for a large degree of freedom -- 2D or 3D -- in how yo...

It's hard to think of a speedrun more pure than Super Mario Bros. There have been myriad "classic" or popular speedruns that have been born out of competition, random luck, or perseverance, like the blindfolded Punch Out!! runs or anyt...

The indie scene on Switch is flourishing. In a complete 180 from Nintendo's previous generation I'm constantly seeing indie games released on just PC and Switch, or in some cases, Switch first. I'm still not used to it! But with the rapid-f...

A dedicated Dark Souls fan has completed a run of the game's entire trilogy without taking a single hit. The_Happy_Hob streamed the nerve-wracking achievement, a year in the making, on his Twitch channel. The final moment (which contains lo...

There comes a point in Monster Hunter: World where monsters you once feared stop feeling quite so intimidating. You learn their patterns and where to stand, you craft better gear, and you gain confidence. Instead of being on the defensive l...

Content creator and speedrunner SethBling managed to break Super Mario World and re-usher in a speedrunning category all at once. Although the previous record for a glitched credit Mario World run was set over a year ago, SethBling man...

The Wii U might be dead officially, but it lives on thanks to a few exclusives that the Nintendo Switch hasn't snatched up yet. One of those is The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD, which hasn't had an explosive speedrunning scene outside of ...

There were many amazing runs on last week's Awesome Games Done Quick charity event, including a wild dash through Resident Evil 7 and the always-impressive Super Monkey Ball run. But for many, the highlight was Zallard1's dual-ruining of Ni...

The curtain has dropped on Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 (AGDQ). Once again speedrunners from all over the world descended upon Herndon, Virginia to play hundreds of great (and not so great) video games, in order to raise money for charity....

Awesome Games Done Quick had a phenomenal lineup of horror speedruns last night. I was fortunate enough to catch the majority of Carcinogen's Resident Evil 7 run live, and while I don't keep up with the speedrunning scene as much as I used ...

Speedrunners unite! Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) has returned, once again, to hurtle through a selection of classic and contemporary video games in the name of charity.The next seven days will see speedrunners from across the globe gathe...

Mario games are just plain fun to speedrun. Super Mario 3D World quickly became a favorite of mine, but I also partake in plenty of side-by-side speedrun contests with a friend in pretty much every game in the series. Every 3D iteration has...

This weekend, speedrunner Karl Jobst blew his (and many other runner's) minds when he toppled a World Record on Rare's legendary N64 title GoldenEye 007. A record that was originally set some fifteen years ago.The record in question pertain...

Zelda: Breath of the Wild practically opened up a great year of video games. I mean looking back we did have Gravity Rush 2, Resident Evil 7, Nioh, and several others dropping before it, but it felt like people finally started to reali...

The moment I started playing Mario Odyssey, I knew it was going to be a great speedrun game. I mean most Mario titles are, truthfully, but the sheer amount of tech available due to the Cappy transformations is really going to lend some vari...

There's no shortage of impressive Super Mario Odyssey platforming feats making the rounds now that some players have already mastered Mario's cap-centric moves, but this? This shit is bananas. It's my new go-to clip. How good are people at ...

A woman, clad in a baseball jacket and a creepy mask (or is it?), kicks down the door of a crime-lord's penthouse office. Righteous light blazes, gunshots ring out, flames ignite, bodies fly across the room with reckless abandon and then, i...