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Summer GDQ’s week of online-only speedruns start this weekendGotta go fast, online.
Gotta go fast, online.
The couch may be gone and the crowd safely isolated at home, but that won’t stop those pesky speedrunners from once again marathoning a whole lotta high-speed videogames. This year’s entirely-online edition of Summer Games Done Quick races off this weekend, beginning a week of charity speedrunning tomorrow in support of Doctors Without Borders.Like everything else this year, on-site plans for this year’s Summer GDQ werepostponed, and then scrappedin favour of taking the event wholly online, akin to the one-offCorona Relief Done Quickheld back in April.Watch on YouTubeThis year’s event is, understandably, a little scaled back from before. A look at theofficial SGDQ schedulereveals significantly fewer races, and a few notable games are missing outright (where are you,Titanfall 2?). That doesn’t mean there aren’t enough big runs to catch at this year’s show, includingHalf-Life: Alyx' GDQ debut as a bonus game on Friday. There’s also an actualJedi Knight: Dark Forces IIrun on Thursday - but then, what’s the point if you’re notsneaking it inside an entirely separate Half-Life speedrun?.On the other hand, this year’s event makes room for a good amount of shorter, niche titles likemelancholy Pac-Man-alike Eat Girland geocities web adventureHypnospace Outlaw- a game I struggle to even conceptualise being speedrun. As before, all funds raised at this year’s events will go towards Doctors Without Borders. Last year’s showraised a solid $3 million, setting a high bar to beat this time ‘round.Summer Games Done Quick kicks off with a run ofDemon’s Soulsat 5pm BST tomorrow afternoon, and runs through ‘til the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, August 23rd. You can catch the all the runs over on theGames Done Quick Twitch channel. Until then, why not get yourself in the mood for some sprints with ourbest bits from January’s Awesome Games Done Quick?
The couch may be gone and the crowd safely isolated at home, but that won’t stop those pesky speedrunners from once again marathoning a whole lotta high-speed videogames. This year’s entirely-online edition of Summer Games Done Quick races off this weekend, beginning a week of charity speedrunning tomorrow in support of Doctors Without Borders.Like everything else this year, on-site plans for this year’s Summer GDQ werepostponed, and then scrappedin favour of taking the event wholly online, akin to the one-offCorona Relief Done Quickheld back in April.Watch on YouTubeThis year’s event is, understandably, a little scaled back from before. A look at theofficial SGDQ schedulereveals significantly fewer races, and a few notable games are missing outright (where are you,Titanfall 2?). That doesn’t mean there aren’t enough big runs to catch at this year’s show, includingHalf-Life: Alyx’ GDQ debut as a bonus game on Friday. There’s also an actualJedi Knight: Dark Forces IIrun on Thursday - but then, what’s the point if you’re notsneaking it inside an entirely separate Half-Life speedrun?.On the other hand, this year’s event makes room for a good amount of shorter, niche titles likemelancholy Pac-Man-alike Eat Girland geocities web adventureHypnospace Outlaw- a game I struggle to even conceptualise being speedrun. As before, all funds raised at this year’s events will go towards Doctors Without Borders. Last year’s showraised a solid $3 million, setting a high bar to beat this time ‘round.Summer Games Done Quick kicks off with a run ofDemon’s Soulsat 5pm BST tomorrow afternoon, and runs through ‘til the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, August 23rd. You can catch the all the runs over on theGames Done Quick Twitch channel. Until then, why not get yourself in the mood for some sprints with ourbest bits from January’s Awesome Games Done Quick?
The couch may be gone and the crowd safely isolated at home, but that won’t stop those pesky speedrunners from once again marathoning a whole lotta high-speed videogames. This year’s entirely-online edition of Summer Games Done Quick races off this weekend, beginning a week of charity speedrunning tomorrow in support of Doctors Without Borders.
Like everything else this year, on-site plans for this year’s Summer GDQ werepostponed, and then scrappedin favour of taking the event wholly online, akin to the one-offCorona Relief Done Quickheld back in April.
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
This year’s event is, understandably, a little scaled back from before. A look at theofficial SGDQ schedulereveals significantly fewer races, and a few notable games are missing outright (where are you,Titanfall 2?). That doesn’t mean there aren’t enough big runs to catch at this year’s show, includingHalf-Life: Alyx’ GDQ debut as a bonus game on Friday. There’s also an actualJedi Knight: Dark Forces IIrun on Thursday - but then, what’s the point if you’re notsneaking it inside an entirely separate Half-Life speedrun?.
On the other hand, this year’s event makes room for a good amount of shorter, niche titles likemelancholy Pac-Man-alike Eat Girland geocities web adventureHypnospace Outlaw- a game I struggle to even conceptualise being speedrun. As before, all funds raised at this year’s events will go towards Doctors Without Borders. Last year’s showraised a solid $3 million, setting a high bar to beat this time ‘round.
Summer Games Done Quick kicks off with a run ofDemon’s Soulsat 5pm BST tomorrow afternoon, and runs through ‘til the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, August 23rd. You can catch the all the runs over on theGames Done Quick Twitch channel. Until then, why not get yourself in the mood for some sprints with ourbest bits from January’s Awesome Games Done Quick?
