speedrunning

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $2,764…

Awesome Games Done Quick, back for its 12th year, starts today. After a terrible 2020, these fun and impressive…

A group of Japanese speedrunners have discovered that the key to getting faster times in all-time RPG classic Dragon…

It took me 20 hours to beat the Demon’s Souls remake on PlayStation 5, but speedrunners have already discovered a…

You don’t need the hundred eyes of Argos to see that Hades is a fast-paced game. It’s endlessly and easily…

Sometimes, you just gotta dance. And what better time to work on your moves than when skipping a huge section of Stre…

After nearly 27 years, players have finally found SNES action-RPG classic Illusion of Gaia’s first speedrunning…

The current world record Spelunky 2 speedrun is a sight to behold and won’t take up hours of your time.

Spelunky 2 has been out for less than a week, and while many players (like me) are still fumbling through its…

Summer Games Done Quick has wrapped up after a week of streaming, and we got a week of very cool shit, some fun…

While the in-person portion of this year’s Summer Games Done Quick has had to be called off thanks to you-know-what,…

It is, to still somehow understate things, an incredibly difficult time to be a teacher. Around the country, many…

You never know what you’re going to see in a speedrun. The players working on beating Doom Eternal as quickly as…

This weekend, the folks at Games Done Quick put together a charity speedrun event to raise funds for covid-19 relief.…

Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But…

There is a large and active speedrunning community around Half-Life 2. And Valve is aware of this and during a…

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has only been out for a week, but already speedrunners have played through it…

Few experiences in video games feel better than demolishing a tough boss after figuring out the perfect strategy.…

BioShock is an especially harrowing game to watch people speedrun, largely because of all the small things that can…