Games Done Quick Founder Steps Down After More Than A Decade & Raising US$41 Million For Charity

Mike Uyama founded Games Done Quick (GDQ) back in 2010. 13 years later, he has announced that he will be leaving the role of managing director after the upcoming 2023 Awesome Games Done Quick Online event. The current GDQ operations director, Matt Merkle, will take over the role. https://twitter.com/GamesDoneQuick/status/1611014672869720064 I...

Games Done Quick Raises US$400,000 For COVID-19 Coronavirus Relief

In the world's "new normal", it's still noteworthy to find charity endeavours being done via gaming. Such is the case of the recent Corona Relief Done Quick livestream which recently ended and net itself US$400,000 to support Direct Relief. While that amount is lower than GDQ's main Awesome Games and Summer Games speedrun events, it's still a "new...

Watch Speedrunners Marathon Through Games For Coronavirus Relief

This year's Summer Games Done Quick by the folks from GDQ is pushed back to August due to COVID-19 coronavirus concerns, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be any speedrunning marathon action. In fact, from today until Monday morning 20th April, GDQ will be running an online speedrunning marathon called Corona Relief Done Quick. All donations an...

Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 Raised More Than US$3 Million In A Week

If you thought esports was a niche thing in the gaming community, wait until you explore speedrunning. It's basically the act of finishing a video game as fast as possible. Sometimes, extra parameters are added to spice things up like playing the game blind-folded. [caption id="attachment_50395" align="alignnone" width="1920"] The AGDQ 2020 crowd ...