Conquering a game’s challenges over and over again can make you feel invincible. With a new world record in sight,…
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The fastest speedruns in Breath of the Wild are slightly over forty minutes. Link wakes up, rushes to Ganon, and…
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Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours.…
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Super Dram World is an exceptionally cruel Super Mario World hack. It’s an accomplishment to survive a simple…
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Last year, a speedrunner managed to break through an infamous Wind Waker HD roadblock that players believed was…
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I’ve been religiously tracking Breath of the Wild speedruns since before the game was released and have even started…
When you cover speedrunning for a while, you start to ask: “can I do that?” This weekend, I started doing my own…
The race to rush through Breath of the Wild has produced blistering speedruns. A run on track for a new world record…
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One week after release, the speedrun for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has fallen under one hour thanks to…
Speedrunner Coolkid, aka DaBiGBoOi, won this weekend’s sixth ever Best of NES Big 20 Race, a competition in which…
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Breath of the Wild is an exciting game for speedrunning, inspiring attempts before the game was released and early…
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An accomplished speedrunner has been working hard all week to get to the end of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the…
For a certain subset of folks, speedrunning—the art of beating a video game as quickly as possible—is their window…
Back in 2013, Binding of Isaac fans turned the single-player game into a competitive pastime where multiple players…
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It took Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk 91 hours to beat Miracle Piano Teaching System, an NES game…
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Kid-friendly browser game Club Penguin is famed for rapidly banning the use of foul language. Now that the game only…
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Nioh is a massive game. Reviewing it took around 60 hours. Speedrunner Distortion2 puts myself and everyone to shame…
Beck Abney is a Mario Kart 64 speedrunner with world records on many tracks. He’s also a man on a mission. Trees dot…
I got my first 3DS recently. It’s magical. With Majora’s Mask 3D I’m able to enjoy the best game in the series…