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Latest Sims 4 Update Adds Custom Pronouns For All
26.5.2022
A new Sims 4 update released yesterday added new pronoun options to the latest entry in EA’s long-running life simulator. With this update, players will be able to set their Sims’ pronouns, including completely custom ones, without the use of mods across all platforms that The Sims 4 is available...
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
Elden Ring Beaten In 20 Minutes With Ridiculous Teleporting Glitch
28.3.2022
We’ve seen a few Elden Ring speedruns already, with folks doing things like beating the game without dying a single time in the Lands Between, among other challenge runs. But someone who’s been setting world records for finishing FromSoftware’s latest Souls-like with the fastest time possible...
Elden Ring Lord Breaks Own World Record Five Times In A Row
15.3.2022
If you thought a 37-minute Elden Ring speedrun was the quickest time ever recorded for FromSoftware’s latest Souls-like, think again. That fast run was just blown outta the water by a sub-30-minute completion, which has my head spinning in a jealous rage. What’s especially wild about this new time...
Someone Has Now Finished Elden Ring In Under 37 Minutes
12.3.2022
Prolific and experienced Dark Souls speedrunner Distortion2 continues to set new speedrunning records in Elden Ring. He has now beaten Elden Ring in under 37 minutes, which could possibly be the new record for the fastest completion time.Read more
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Wiz Completes Each Level In One Enormous Combo
20.1.2022
Just speedrunning a game is hard enough. So it’s wild that for his first speedrun, engineer and web developer Steve Wozniak decided to make the already-difficult task of finishing a game as quickly as possible even harder. The task he set for himself: Don’t just complete all the goals in Vicarious...
Meet The ‘Lesbian Skip,’ An Essential Deltarune Speedrunning Strat
19.1.2022
Apparently if you want to be a pro speedrunner in Deltarune, it’s imperative that you utilize a technique called “Lesbian Skip.” What’s the deal with that? It’s very straightforward actually.Read more
Watch A Guy Beat Sekiro In Two Hours, Blindfolded
17.1.2022
You know how you can’t even get past the first area of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice without crying? Well, this guy can play the entire game, in under two hours, blindfolded.Read more
Speedrunning Refs: Rapid Fire OK In Metroid Dread
10.1.2022
In a small but significant win for accessibility advocates within speedrunning, it was announced last Thursday that the Metroid Dread leaderboards on speedrun.com will now allow runners to make use of rapid-fire assists, commonly referred to as turbo, during their runs, and that those runs will...
Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 Starts Today, Here’s How To Watch
9.1.2022
And just like that, somehow it’s been a whole year since the last Awesome Games Done Quick. The speedrunning event, back for its 13th year, starts today. After a terrible 2021, relax and enjoy some fun, impressive, and wild speedruns for the next week. It might just be the best way to kick...
Crypto in 2022 Will Bring New and Older Emergent Trends to the Fore
1.1.2022
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Crypto is an emergent phenomenon. Put simply, this means it has properties that we can’t extrapolate from the properties of its parts, or to put it even more simply, no one knows exactly what crypto will do in the future....
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Speedrunner Beats Pokémon Shining Pearl In Under 51 Minutes
26.11.2021
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are but a week old today, and yet a speedrunner has already figured out how to get through them in well under an hour. The secret? They’re “so broken.”Read more
Metroid Dread Speedrunners Are Beating The Game In 90 Minutes Flat
26.10.2021
There comes a time in every game’s life-cycle when speedrunners crack the code, and a baseline time against which to compete reveals itself. Now that we’re a few weeks removed from the release of Metroid Dread, such a benchmark has crystallized: The game’s fastest players are racing from start...
Speedrunners Protest, Leave Biggest Leaderboard Site As It Gets Flooded With Abusive Comments
20.10.2021
Speedrun, a website where leaderboards crown the fastest players for any given game, recently added a commenting feature which hasn’t been going well for anyone. Since its implementation, users have been spammed with vulgar comments and inappropriate images. Worse, those plagued by this problem...
11 Things You Might Have Missed From The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Direct
18.10.2021
Last week’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Nintendo Direct was an avalanche of info about new items, gameplay, and characters coming to the game in both its free update and paid Happy Home Paradise DLC on November 5. Read on for some neat little details about everything that’s coming that you might...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' K.K. Slider Is Getting New Music
15.10.2021
During the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct, Nintendo announced that the music performer K.K. slider will be adding additional songs. These include titles such as K.K. Break and K.K. Polka. Players will also be able to play them from a new music box item.Read more
BCH Defi Project Detoken to Close Its Doors Over Regulatory Climate Toward Crypto Derivatives
30.8.2021
On August 28, the Bitcoin Cash-based decentralized finance (defi) platform Detoken announced the project is closing its doors on September 4, 2021. The project’s founder, Semyon Germanovich, explained that the main reason for shutting the defi project down is because of the “changing...
My Speedrunning Career Lasted A Bit Less Than A Week
22.7.2021
I’m no speedrunner. In fact, I’ve never loved a video game enough to attempt to speedrun it until recently, when I found the PlayStation 2 oddity X-treme Express. But after almost a week of watching my promising attempts slip away at the last second, and feeling my affection towards the game turn...
New Pokémon Snap’s ‘Obama Skip’ Is The Latest Speedrunning Trick With A Weird Name
10.7.2021
Like any sub-culture, speedrunning is known for creating its own unique vocabulary that, at times, can sound like an entirely different language. Fortunately, we have folks like Abyssoft to act as our Sherpas and guide us up the treacherous speedrunning mountain. His latest video explains...
Wind Waker Speedrunners Finally Found A Way To Skip Cutscenes
1.4.2021
The latest trick in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunning has the potential to do away with the game’s previously unskippable cutscenes entirely.Read more