Agdq 2025 Earns $2.5 Million For Charity With Its Best Event Yet

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising conscionable complete $2.5 cardinal for nan Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick arena is worthy tuning successful to either unrecorded aliases later via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled pinch runs that’ll spell down arsenic immoderate of nan champion GDQ has to offer. Here are immoderate of our favorites:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

The awesome constituent astir nan speedrunning statement is that it’s often not tin to beryllium nan fastest runner of a peculiar game. That’s boring. For Wes, simply moving New Super Mario Bros. Wii wasn’t tin to fulfill him. He had to get imaginative pinch it, deciding to maestro playing nan crippled arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable while playing nan piano. But really tin personification play a video crippled if immoderate their hands are occupied, you ask? The reply is obvious: by controlling nan crippled pinch your caput and feet. I don’t cognize what inspires a value to do this benignant of thing, and I don’t care. All that matters is that Wes put nan grade of value expertise (and multitasking) connected display, and it was brain-breaking to watch.

Elden Ring prize showcase

Speaking of unthinkable value talent, really astir playing Elden Ring — a crippled known for its punishing trouble — pinch a saxophone. I was looking guardant to this tally each week, and Dr. Doot did not disappoint, but not for nan logic I expected. It’s 1 constituent to deed nan likes of Malenia, Blade of Miquella pinch a specially programmed aerophone. But point could personification prepared maine for each input, from landing an onslaught to utilizing consumables, sounding a hilarious “doot” noise. I cried laughing it was truthful funny.

Super Metroid

Super Metroid is simply a GDQ staple, often anchoring nan event’s past clip successful a week’s worthy of programming. But lately, GDQ has gotten distant from featuring a specified tally of nan crippled to alternatively showcase each nan activity nan Super Metroid modding statement has put into keeping this crippled from 1994 caller and interesting. This four-way title of Super Metroid included a practice randomizer, meaning nan game’s normal layout had been shuffled astir and put together successful an all-new configuration.

Map randomizers for a Metroid crippled are uniquely susceptible because each of nan abilities you petition to advancement are nary longer laid retired successful a logical fashion. Samus mightiness tally into nan fiery pits of Lower Norfair agelong earlier uncovering nan heat-shielding Varia suit. And pinch nan practice randomized, it’s now measurement harder (and takes measurement longer) to find wherever nan suit is. Now adhd an constituent of competition, and you’ve sewage 1 of nan finest races successful AGDQ history.

Crazy Taxi pinch unrecorded backing band

It utilized to beryllium that if you wanted to debar DMCA strikes for playing a crippled connected Twitch pinch licensed music, you conscionable turned nan euphony off. But AGDQ has recreation up pinch a caller measurement to get astir this aged problem. For this tally of Crazy Taxi, each opus was played by a surface group that transformed AGDQ from a speedrunning video crippled arena into an impromptu punk chromatic show — mini-mosh pit and each — and it ruled. I’m not gonna banal immoderate details. Just spell watch it for yourself.

GDQ is simply a uniquely emblematic arena for overmuch reasons than featuring cool, creative, aliases crazy-ass runs. In a world wherever cowardly corporations personification decided it’s okay to telephone women and LGBTQ+ group slurs, and 1 wherever gamers personification a unsocial estimation for being atrocious to each different for differences beyond our control, Games Done Quick has been very vocal successful its support of marginalized people. Whether it beryllium its divers programming pinch Frame Fatales aliases Black successful a Flash aliases nan specified truth that each different assistance featured a relationship of “Trans Rights,” which was enthusiastically publication aloud and enthusiastically shouted by nan unrecorded crowd.

Games Done Quick has been a sparkling illustration of really intentionally curated communities tin foster acceptance and beryllium a guidelines of joyousness and goodness successful a ambiance that needs it, and AGDQ 2025 was 1 of nan best.