Stick around to get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make an event like AGDQ run and to hear how GDQ’s 10-plus years of charity funding has impacted cancer prevention and research. AGDQ ...

Awesome Games Done Quick (and the mid-year Summer Games Done Quick) is a favorite event here at Shacknews. We're constantly amazed by the feats of the world's greatest speedrunners. While every ...

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Peanut Butter the Shiba Inu is now etched into the annals of GDQ history as the first canine-assisted speed run at one of the charity events. The well-trained pooch helped his owner (JSR_) finish the ...

Since my writing career began in 2004, I’ve published over 40 books about how games are made. That number includes Shacknews long reads such as Rocket Jump and Bet on Black, which we do consider books ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If you watched only one run from 2024’s Awesome Games Done Quick ...

There were days when, two weeks out of every year, I would stay in my room, glued to my laptop screen nearly all week, consuming speedrun after speedrun of the Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) ...

AGDQ 2024 has just raised $2 million dollars for charity! The charity speedrunning event first broke the $2 million threshold back in 2017 and surpassed that with $3 million just two years later. So ...

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2024 Online wrapped up its week-long 24-hour speedrunning marathon, raising a total of more than $2.5 million for Prevent Cancer Foundation. The event, which took place ...