GDQ’s women-focused Flame Fatales occasion has concluded, and it is raised a fairly spectacular amount of cash for a charity that advantages ladies and women world wide.
Flame Fatales ran between August 18th and yesterday, concluding with over $118,000 raised for the Malala Fund charity. As you’ve got in all probability guessed, the charity was based by Malala Yousafzai and advocates for ladies’ schooling globally.
As a press launch factors out, Flame Fatales noticed speedrunning makes an attempt being made throughout quite a few video games this 12 months, together with classics like Tremendous Mario 64 DS and Chrono Set off, in addition to newer video games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Bayonetta 3.
In reality, it was throughout a Bayonetta 3 speedrun that Flame Fatales reached a brand new lifetime milestone of $1 million donations. That is a heck of some huge cash given to charity over time.
Different speedruns throughout Flame Fatales this 12 months included Jerikandra’s “intense” Chrono Set off Vortex Save Any% remaining boss try, in addition to SnowballSMB reaching a brand new world document in New Recreation+ for Sonic & Knuckles.
If you happen to’re nonetheless jonesing on your speedrunning repair, then you definitely’ll be happy to know that AGDQ (that is Superior Video games Finished Fast) is simply across the nook; subsequent 12 months’s AGDQ occasion runs between January fifth and twelfth.
Video games Finished Fast has usually been a power to be reckoned with relating to elevating cash for charity; this 12 months’s Summer time Video games Finished Fast occasion racked up $2.5 million for Medical doctors With out Borders, and final 12 months’s AGDQ raised $2.6 million for the Forestall Most cancers Basis.
At a time when ladies, non-binary of us, and people presenting feminine are struggling to make their voices heard within the gaming business, it is nice to see Flame Fatales elevating some critical money for the Malala Fund.
The jury’s out on how a lot progress the business is making relating to ladies in gaming, particularly when the phenomenally common Black Delusion: Wukong can inform gamers streaming the sport to not embrace “feminist propaganda” of their streams, no matter meaning.
At any price, keep tuned for extra on this, in addition to all different issues GDQ-related. Here is hoping for an actual stunner for January’s AGDQ.
