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Final Fantasy VII's Biggest Skip Ever Lets You 'Save' Aerith Without Cheats
24.10.2024
There’s been a massive breakthrough in the world of Final Fantasy VII. Not the new remakes on PlayStation 5, but the original 1997 game. A new skip makes it possible to jump right to Aerith’s death, earlier than players had ever expected. She’ll still die in the pivotal scene, but players can keep...
Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Player Discovers How To Keep Playing As Link Thanks To Wild Glitch
4.10.2024
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdomfinally makes the titular princess the playable star of the show. After a short prologue as Link, players leave the Hero of Time behind for a completely new type of Zelda adventure. However, one player recently discovered there’s a way to keep playing as Link...
Incredible New Elden Ring Glitch Is Letting Players Fly Through Shadow Of The Erdtree
31.7.2024
The Elden Ring speedrunning community is hungry for new exploits to crack the open-world FromSoftware game wide open and it might’ve just discovered one. As part of an ongoing $10,000 tournament, someone has found a way to displace the player character just enough to allow them to walk on air...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games We’re Kicking Off July With
5.7.2024
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism isn’t always...
Summer Games Done Quick Gives Us The Best Video Game Moment Of 2024
5.7.2024
Summer Games Done Quick is typically a beacon for good things. Every year, players break good games and perform wild acts of digital acrobatics as they do speedruns for a good cause. And the best good thing was the goodest of good boys Peanut Butter, a four-year-old Shiba Inu, hitting a home run...
Do Yourself A Favor And Go Watch The Best Speedrunning Event Of The Year
2.7.2024
It’s the first week of July, a liminal period between the not-E3 marketing machine festivities and a surprisingly stacked summer release schedule. As Americans prepare to celebrate another glorious Independence Day in the wake of unhinged Supreme Court decisions and a sunsetting president, I can’t...
Meet The Filmmaker Behind This Legend of Zelda Speedrunning Documentary
29.4.2024
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Doom 2's Oldest Speedrun Record Finally Beaten After 26 Years
17.4.2024
The opening level of Doom 2 is very short. Without any practice, most players can easily finish it in less than a minute. But back in 1998, one skilled speedrunner completed the small level in five seconds. And finally, after nearly three decades of people suggesting it was impossible to beat...
Former GTA San Andreas Dev Explains Suicidal Photographer And Crashing Planes
3.4.2024
A former developer at Rockstar North, the studio behind the immensely popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, has revealed the reasons why sometimes planes in GTA: San Andreas would just randomly crash near the player. He also provided some insight into why a particular NPC in the game would take...
This Innovative Hades-Like Feels Built For Speedrunners
17.2.2024
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Baldur's Gate 3 20-Minute Speedrun Shows Bears Are Good For More Than Bangin'
26.1.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3’s bear sex scene made waves when Larian’s fantasy RPG launched last year, but the game’s speedrunning community has proven that bears are helpful for other things, too. If you’ve spent hours strategizing and scheming your way through the game’s complex combat encounters, have...
Speedrunning Dog Didn’t Set Record At AGDQ 2024, Still Good Boy
16.1.2024
On January 16, Peanut Butter became the first dog to ever speedrun a game at Awesome Games Done Quick. And while the Shiba Inu gamer didn’t set a new record today or beat their previous personal best, Peanut Butter is still a very good boy who deserves all the pets and treats.Read more
Baldur's Gate 3 Speedrunner Races To Bear Sex
13.11.2023
A Baldur’s Gate 3 player has just set the world record for speedrunning to steamy bear sex with the Druid companion Halsin in just under an hour, a feat that would typically take the average player much longer to accomplish.Read more
Latest Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch Nerfs Sex Speedruns
3.11.2023
For being a role-playing game based on 5e Dungeons & Dragons, Baldur’s Gate 3 is notoriously horny. Regardless of mythical race, gender, or social station, many of the game’s alluring party members are willing to at least spank you, and because of this, BG3 has a thriving and official sex speedrun...
World's Coolest Dog Set To Speedrun Unbeloved Nintendo Game
19.10.2023
For the first time ever Awesome Games Done Quick, the huge annual speedrunning charity event where players compete to set world records in crafty ways, will have a dog compete onstage. I suppose this is the logical culmination of speedrunning.Read more
Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Now Speedrunning Sex
16.8.2023
It doesn’t matter how large a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 is, there will always be folks who dare to ask: How quickly can I get through this? But now fans are turning to ask another bold question: How quickly can I get laid in Larian’s new epic RPG? Well, it turns out no one’s lonely in Faerûn...
Dang, Someone Beat Baldur's Gate 3 In Under 11 Minutes
15.8.2023
Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 is the new hotness. Taking the internet by storm, the fantasy RPG has become the highest-rated game on Metacritic, dethroning The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But while most folks are still chewing through the massive Dungeons & Dragons-based game,...
Behold: Glorious Mario Kart Player Avoids An Endless Onslaught Of Blue Shells
19.7.2023
Every Mario Kart player knows the pain of the blue shell (or spiny shell, as it’s technically called). When used, the flying, homing projectile will jet for the racer currently in first place and slams down on them with a concentrated explosion. It’s a menace. Anyone who’s winning a race in these...
Gollum Players Fight For Word Records In 2023's Worst Game
6.7.2023
While The Lord of the Rings: Gollum may be one of the worst games of 2023 so far, even bad games can be fun to speedrun. In fact, sometimes the very things that make a game so frustrating for normal players—things like bugs and busted controls—can create exciting opportunities for glitches, level...
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...