Superior Video games Completed Fast 2023 ran during the last week, the annual occasion that includes 150 speedruns and 4 damaged information, with a hefty sum raised for the Forestall Most cancers Basis. $2.6 million was raised over the week, and that’s regardless of the shortage of a dwell venue, following the choice to cancel its Florida occasion as a consequence of…nicely, Florida.
Video games Completed Fast, aside from being a monstrous assault in opposition to good grammar and adverbs, is the incredible group that mixes folks enjoying video games actually rapidly (see, fastly) with elevating astonishing quantities of cash for good causes.
January’s annual “Superior” incarnation hasn’t had a dwell residence for 3 years now, following two years of Covid, after which this 12 months’s option to abandon plans for a Florida occasion on condition that Florida has develop into unsafe for almost everybody. (I’m British and solely watch from afar, however so far as I can inform it’s now the legislation in Florida that for those who’re not completely draped in a Accomplice flag whereas firing at the very least two weapons into the air Yosemite Sam-style, you will be legally murdered on the street.)
Final 12 months noticed the identical occasion increase an eye-watering $3.4 million, however given the price of residing crises all over the world, $2.6 million in 2023 stays beautiful. This got here from viewers who loved a wonderful array of speedruns, together with—as our sister web site down underneath studies—4 world information. They had been a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles: Shredder’s Revenge co-op, Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2, er, Steven Seagal Is: The Closing Choice, and—yay—PowerWash Simulator. The latter, which has taken me roughly 348 weeks to get midway by way of, lasted simply 33:31. Watch it!
You possibly can watch the remainder of the runs through GDQ’s YouTube channel. Like Mysteries Of Sith in 26 minutes!
The Summer time Video games Completed Fast(ly) dates have been introduced as Might 28 to June 4.