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Ocarina of Time World Speedrun Records Get Smashed

AGDQ may be over, but the pursuit of speedruns never stops. Even in seemingly stagnant scenes, speedrunning is vibrant, and yesterday, a seemingly untouchable record was finally topped. Yesterday, the world record for the Nintendo 64 version of The Legend of Zelda:…

What to Watch from Awesome Games Done Quick 2020

Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 has finished up, successfully raising $3.13 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, breaking the previous record of $3.03 million raised from the 2019 Summer Games Done Quick. You may have missed something you wanted to see from…

Summoning Salt: A Speedrunning Gateway

Awesome Games Done Quick and its’ summer variant act as a sort of gateway into speedrunning. Since they’re big events done for the sake of charity, a lot of eyes in the gaming community turn to look at people showcase their speedrunning…