The button-mashing speedrunners over at Games Done Quick are getting set to sweat once again. The GDQ organizers have announced that sibling community Frame Fatales will be holding another fantastic, all-women's speedrunning event this comi...

The Games Done Quick team has announced that it will once again be hosting its sunny speedrunning event Summer Games Done Quick in July. The event will bring together some of the fastest and... furiousest players from across the globe to co...

Another Awesome Games Done Quick event has drawn to a close. The past week has seen some of the best – or at least fastest – video game players in the world come together to smash their way through a cavalcade of titles old and ...

It's January, and you know what that means, it's once again time for some of the savviest players in the business to gather together for a non-stop marathon of fantastic gaming action. Awesome Games Done Quick is upon us once again, and wil...

The Fleet Fatales extravaganza has finally wrapped. As the curtain falls on a week of daily game-busting escapades, the Games Done Quick team announced that an amazing total of $81,101 USD was accrued over the course of the seven-day, all-w...

The record-smashing folks over at Games Done Quick are at it again, as another awesome speed running event is scheduled for this week. Dedicated video game fans will once again be blitzing through a host of titles, old and new, in a worthy ...

Awesome Games Done Quick is getting set for its 2021 iteration. The organizer of the annual speedrunning marathon has released a tentative games list for the event, revealing over 150 titles from the pantheon of gaming - all being played in...

Unsurprisingly, the Awesome Games Done Quick team has confirmed that their first event of the new year, AGDQ 2021, will be an online-only affair, as the world continues to be rocked by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Much like last month's SG...

Against all of the odds, and despite all of the hurdles 2020 has put in place, the annual Summer Games Done Quick speedrun marathon has delivered once again. As the curtain fell on this year's event, SGDQ 2020 succeeded in raising an amazin...

Demon's Souls has never been more prominently relevant than it is right now. Possibly the most infamous of the From Software Souls-type games, everyone has their eyes trained on that PS5 remake that was announced last month. It's being...

Summer Games Done Quick has a format shakeup this year, even though every part of its name still holds true. It's the world's largest and most prominent speedrunning event, so the "Games Done Quick" part is accurate. And, it takes place in ...

[Update: Corona Relief Done Quick continues today. As of this writing, the team has raised an amazing $220,000. There's still some great games ahead, including Pokémon Sword, Super Mario Odyssey, Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Super ...

As everyone comes together (but stays appropriately far apart!) to help solve the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the speedrunning community is taking steps to contribute in the only way they know how: By beating video games extremely quickly. Gam...

We've come to the end of another amazing week of exciting, amusing, and heart-stopping  speedruns, as the curtain falls on another amazing Awesome Games Done Quick event, which saw expert players from across the globe gather at the Dou...

The source code for one of the greatest video games of the last decade, VVVVVV, has been released to the public by its creator Terry Cavanagh. The surprise drop happened during AGDQ, after runner Mohoc's crazy 100% run, which was held to co...

In between the speedruns, tool-assisted gimmickry, and marathon RPG sessions, Awesome Games Done Quick is also known for its interesting "stunt" runs, which sees players take on games under specific (and usually quite odd) rules and conditi...

Looking for something to semi-mindlessly watch this cold winter weekend while you melt into your chair? Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 starts this Sunday, January 5, at 11:30am ET in Orlando, FL. As usual, the streaming-for-charity event is...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...