Time to pencil in one other week of sick days and sleepless nights, because the rivals and games for this yr’s Summer Games Done Quick have been introduced, broadcasting from Bloomington, Minneapolis. The charity speedrunning marathon kicks off on 5pm BST on June 23rd, demolishing games at document tempo across the clock till June 30th. As with their different summer time occasions, they’ll be elevating fats sacks of cash for Médecins Sans Frontières. While there’s nonetheless time for last-minute adjustments, the show schedule is here, robotically adjusted to your native timezone.
Lots of traditional PC stuff on present this yr, with runner “KingDime” coming to trounce Final Doom: Evilution on Ultra-violence problem in underneath 55 minutes. Given that he holds the present world document (see the 38:45 run here), I doubt he’ll have an excessive amount of bother when he does his run early on June 24th. Prey has turn into a daily fixture for the present, supplanting Deus Ex, and runner “LifeL1ke” reckons that they’ll do each fundamental quest in underneath 1 hour 18 minutes. The Titanfall 2 speedrun can be going to be a spectacular watch, due to how briskly a very good participant can transfer.
The a part of the present I’m most trying ahead to is a block I’m preemptively calling Strange Games Done Quick, beginning at 5:30am (BST) on June 26th. They’ll be springboarding off the surreal UFO ending of Silent Hill 3, diving into Big The Cat’s fishing-based journey from Sonic Adventure DX. It’s then on to weirdness like claymation RPG Hylics, the DOS port of the unique Castlevania and return to semi-normality with Clustertruck. It’s blocks like this which give us the likes of Urban Yeti above, and sometimes a number of the most entertaining failures of the present.
There’s some intriguingly new stuff in there too. The just-released The Textorcist shall be featured, together with the deliberately janky Super Benbo Quest: Turbo Deluxe (see the trailer here) to be showcased. It’s all the time nice to see smaller, newer indie PC stuff given a while within the limelight. Not that the console classics (and up to date gems) must be ignored both. The Tetris Effect showcase by HardDrop on June 28th goes to be 40 minutes (or much less) of pure hypnotism and impossibly fast-moving fingers. What games are you tuning in for?
SGDQ begins at 5pm BST on June 23rd. You can see the full schedule here, and the occasion’s official page here. It’ll be streaming totally on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel, which additionally hosts bonus occasions just like the Kusogrande Invitational, a blind unhealthy games racing occasion the place not one of the contestants have performed the game earlier than. It’s all the time good for a chuckle.
