It's nearly the end of the year, which means it's nearly 2020, which means it's nearly time for one of the most exciting events in video games. Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 kicks off in just under three months, so it's time to see which ga...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair has a wildly inconsistent difficulty curve. Most of the game is breezy platforming, and then the final challenge is a grueling gauntlet unlike anything before it. You can attempt the Impossible Lai...

Sunday saw another amazing week of speedrunning come to an end, as the curtain fell on Summer Games Done Quick 2019. For seven days, players from all over the world descended on the DoubleTree Hilton Bloomington-Minneapolis Hotel in Minneso...

There's no event in gaming's calendar year I look forward to more than Games Done Quick's charity speedrun extravaganzas. And today sees the return of such an event, with the start of the group's mid-year marathon, Summer Games Done Quick.F...

Here's a bit of a strange one. During E3 week, Ubisoft is giving out Rayman Origins, a gorgeous game that any and all platformer fans should check out. You won't have to attend the gaming expo in-person to earn the free PC title, but you wi...

One of my favourite video game events of the whole year, Summer Games Done Quick, may still be a couple of months away, but that hasn't stopped the organisers from setting the game schedule live, whetting the appetites of speedrunners and s...

Feeling a touch of the post-AGDQ blues? Thankfully, it's not just North America that is serving up good old-fashioned charitable speedrunning for your viewing pleasure. Until February 23, The European Speedrunner Assembly will be bringing y...

Another fantastic Awesome Games Done Quick event has drawn to a close. For the past seven days in Rockville, MD, video game fans have played their way through a catalogue of modern, classic and not-so-classic games in efforts to raise money...

Yep, it's already time for another Games Done Quick event. Not that that's a bad thing, I always get a kick out of the great, week-long event, which sees video game experts from across the globe descend on a venue to show off their mad skil...

The Zeldathon team have gathered together once again. Over the next few days, they hope to raise oodles of Rupees for charity by whizzing through an assortment of Legend of Zelda titles, old and new.Having just started the live stream at th...

There's a little-known Australian exploitation flick called Thirst. Released way back in 1979, it stars Henry Silva as the head of a massive corporation that has made big business out of vampirism, kidnapping innocents, and siphoning their ...

I Am Bread isn't exactly a staple of the larger speedrunning community. Maybe it should be, though. I Am Bread is one of the sillier takes on the "Simulator" genres, wherein the player has to finagle a piece of bread onto heat so...

Another day, another contest: Enter to win Joggernauts on Steam. Attention anyone looking for a cute and colorful puzzle game you can play with your friends and family: We're giving away a cute and colorful puzzle game you can play with you...

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...