To an uninformed viewer, it might seem silly. They're playing the game all wrong! Why is his character glitching out like that? Is she just smashing Mario into a wall? How did he just fly through the ...

Speedruns can be amazing things to watch, especially when they involve classic games that people have played over the years. The level of skill and patience required to execute a fast speedrun can ...

Hundreds of chairs set up for three days straight, a single couch full of commentators, a 72-hour stream and world-renowned charities are a few of the things synonymous with speedrunning, or trying to ...

Summer Games Done Quick 2017 is officially underway! It's a week-long marathon that features some of the best video game speedrunners from around the world. "That's all well and good," I can hear some ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

What is the biggest video game event of the year? For some it might be E3, for others it could be all of the Game of the Year discussions that take place in December, but for a dedicated and growing ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

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Speedrunning games, i.e. the practice of completing them in the quickest time possible, has become a popular phenomenon in the industry over the last several years. And why wouldn't it? Much like ...

I've never liked rushing through video games. I prefer to take my time, strolling aimlessly through the digital brush and marveling at each beautifully-realized world. There's just one problem: I ...