Summer time Video games Performed Fast raises over $2.9m for charity

This 12 months’s Summer time Video games Performed Fast has raised a grand whole of $2.9m for Docs With out Borders – or Médecins Sans Frontières – over the course of per week.

The annual occasion has been one other huge success, with the ultimate determine coming in at over $2,904,585 from over 40,000 donations over the course of the marathon. The GDQ crew dropped an enormous $250,000 into the tracker in direction of the top of the marathon (raised from cash from sponsors, Twitch subscriptions and different miscellaneous quantities) pushing the full as much as over $2.5 million on the time.

Because of that sum – which is the best determine a Summer time Video games Performed Fast has ever achieved – the grand whole raised for charities by the even now stands at an eye-watering $34m. That’s seven years in a row that the occasion has earned over $1 million for its chosen charity, and the determine ticked over that magic quantity throughout a very tight Pokémon Black and White race, too.

There have been some standout runs, too – early on within the week, we noticed a fantastic Nintendogs run on DS scuppered by a less-than-helpful digital good boy, a Lifeless House run that tore the sport aside, and a Demon’s Souls (2020) run that noticed the sport smashed to items in underneath an hour.

You may see all of the runs – and lots of from earlier years – over on the Video games Performed Fast YouTube channel.

In the event you’re hungry for but extra speedrun goodness, by no means worry: there’s at all times extra to return. All-women speedrunning occasion Flame Fatales returns August 15 to 21, and the principle present returns at first of subsequent 12 months with Superior Video games Performed Fast 2022 debuting on January 9 and working by means of till January 16.

If you’d like extra speedruns to wrap your eyes round, take a look at a number of the finest runs from Superior Video games Performed Fast 2021.

If this has merely whet your urge for food for all issues speedrunning, you’ll be able to browse numerous communities over on SpeedRun.com and perhaps even begin training your self.