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You can now create a shitcoin in less than 23 seconds
8.5.2023
A new "speedrun" video shows how anyone can create a brand new cryptocurrency in less than 30 seconds
Twitch Streamer's Struggle To Become A Top Breath of the Wild Speedrunner Is Today's Must-Watch
24.4.2023
Twitch streamer and YouTuber Simply has attempted the unthinkable: Giving himself just 12 hours, he set out to learn the very tricky speedrun for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and to successfully complete one in as fast a time as possible. The speedrunning challenge was insane, full...
Watch As Dark Souls Players Break The Game’s AI In Stunning Ways
12.4.2023
The Dark Souls speedrunning community has found an exploit that pretty much breaks the AI of enemies and, in doing so, cracked the game wide open.Read more
Mario Kart Players Land Groundbreaking Trick After 27 Years
7.4.2023
Skips and speedruns are basically like magic, to me. The tenacity it takes to find ways to break a game and circumvent entire sections is a skill and patience I don’t have. That being said, I’m always glad to watch someone just walk or drive through a wall and end up somewhere they weren’t supposed...
Elden Ring Player Beats Game By Only Walking
3.4.2023
There’s no shortage of ways to beat FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. You could play it straight and face all the mandatory bosses waiting to kick your teeth in. Maybe you’re keen on playing with a banana controller or running two separate instances simultaneously. Or, as in the case of Souls YouTuber...
BotW Speedrunner Gets All The (Farming) Hoes Faster Than You
16.3.2023
Twitch streamer Limcube has gone to great lengths to get all the hoes he can—wait, we’re talking about the Breath of the Wild gardening tool. You know, the ones used to cultivate soil and remove weeds. Get your head out of the gutter.Read more
Super Mario 64 Fans Have Tried To Get This 1-Up Without Dying For Over 20 Years
11.3.2023
Nine years ago, Super Mario 64 player toyuru2 wall-jumped his way up the slide in Cool, Cool Mountain, sending the plumber into the void–but not before grabbing a 1-up mushroom. At the time, it was a feat, as nobody had ever gotten the mushroom. But then, a new challenge emerged: was it possible...
Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 Makes $2.6 Million For Cancer Charity
16.1.2023
Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 ran over the last week, the annual event featuring 150 speedruns and four broken records, with a hefty sum raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. $2.6 million was raised over the week, and that’s despite the lack of a live venue, following the decision to cancel...
High On Life Reacts To Speedrunners And Cheers Them On
3.1.2023
Inevitably, whenever a new game comes out, people start to figure out ways to beat it faster and faster. And if you do this in the recently released comedic shooter High On Life, the game will react positively, cheering you on and hoping you set a world record in the process. Read more
This Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Glitch Seems Made For Speedrun Exploitation
21.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have a ton of bugs and performance issues that have slowly been revealing themselves in the days since it launched, but not all of them are bad. One newly discovered glitch actually lets players run at double speed if they trick the game into recognizing two controllers...
YouTube Declares Mega Man 2 Documentary Too Sexy For Kids
4.10.2022
YouTuber Summoning Salt’s videos on the history of speedrunning are some of the most popular in the hobby’s space and beyond, and now one of them has fallen prey to the Google platform’s notoriously confusing and opaque moderation process. “This video may be inappropriate for some users,” reads...
Witness Every Incredible Super Mario Bros. Speedrun Record Simultaneously
17.8.2022
Super Mario Bros. is one of the most storied games in the history of video game speedrunning, and an incredible new compilation shows just how far players’ mastery has come. Why watch just one world record run when you could watch all of them at the same time, in just 11 minutes?Read more
The Incredible Story Of Mario Kart: Double Dash's Hidden Shortcuts
25.7.2022
When Mario Kart: Double Dash was released back in 2003, a major shortcut on one of the game’s tracks—Waluigi Stadium—was discovered almost instantly. The next shortcut wouldn’t be recorded until 2018.Read more
Metal Gear Speedrunner Reveals He Faked ‘Live’ World Record, Claims It’s A ‘Puzzle’
5.7.2022
In a week filled with fantastic live speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2022, a one-hour playthrough of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance still turned heads. Even more remarkable was the encore, unlocked through community donations: a frantic race through the game’s Blade Wolf DLC campaign which...
Summer Games Done Quick Raises Over $3 Million For Charity
4.7.2022
Summer Games Done Quick, a charity speedrun marathon that was back with an in-person event for the first time in a few years, was held between June 26-July 3 in Bloomington, Minnesota. And at the end of the week, once all the runs were done, the event had raised an enormous $3 million...
PSA: Seriously, Don’t Miss The Final Night Of Games Done Quick
1.7.2022
For the past week, Games Done Quick has held its annual speedrunning festival. As always, the event has been awesome, full of some truly mind-blowing feats, including an exploit-packed run through Halo Infinite’s open-world-ish campaign. But organizers appear to have saved the best for last, with...
The Hottest Game Of The Summer Has A Cheating Problem
28.6.2022
It’s like clockwork: A game comes out with a robust competitive component…and is instantly inundated by players who rocket to the top via nefarious, unsanctioned means—cheaters, in other words. The latest victim is Neon White, a multi-genre speedrunning game developed by Angel Matrix and published...
Elden Ring Speedrunner Decides Eyes Are OP, Beats Bosses While Blindfolded
10.5.2022
Elden Ring players are still finding new ways to play FromSoftware’s latest notoriously challenging RPG. Some have beaten it while overloaded on equipment. Others have modded it to fight as non-canon Tarnished like Darth Vader and Homer Simpson. Now, speedrunner Christopher “star0chris” Campanella...
How Elden Ring Speedruns Beat The Game In Under 9 Minutes Without Seeing Its Final Boss
11.4.2022
Elden Ring speedrun times dropped dramatically over the last week thanks to the discovery of a new route that removes the need to fight any of the FromSoftware game’s difficult bosses. The current world record, held by high-level Souls speedrunner Distortion2, sits at just below 9 minutes. Let’s...
Someone Has Now Beat Elden Ring In Just 12 Minutes And 32 Seconds
9.4.2022
Yesterday, YouTuber and speedrunner MitChriz beat Elden Ring in just 12 minutes and 32 seconds, setting what appears to be a new record in the “any%” speedrunning category for the game. Read more