This 12 months’s Summer season Video games Carried out Fast (SGDQ) is arising before you suppose, as the complete schedule for this 12 months’s occasion has been confirmed.
SGDQ is one among Video games Carried out Fast’s annual occasions which see week-long, 24/7 online game marathons streamed on-line to boost cash for charity.
Every occasion sees highly-skilled avid gamers take turns to speedrun — finishing video video games as rapidly as attainable — with donation incentives arrange for viewers to encourage extra fundraising.
SGDQ 2025 will happen between July sixth – July thirteenth on the Hilton Resort in downtown Minneapolis and might be elevating cash for Docs With out Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), a charity which offers humanitarian medical care in over 70 nations.
Since its inception in 2010, GDQ has raised over $54m (£41m) for a number of charities.
Superior Video games Carried out Shortly 2025 elevating $2.56m (£1.93m) for the Forestall Most cancers Basis again in January and final 12 months’s SGQD raised $2.58m (£1.94m) for Docs With out Borders.
This 12 months’s SGDQ has a really thrilling line-up with the finale, an all-chapters run of Deltarune, Toby Fox’s follow-up to the extraordinarily fashionable Undertale RPG, which is difficult to consider contemplating the third and fourth chapter gained’t launch till a month previous to the occasion.
There will even be a number of runs by British and Irish rivals, together with a attainable look from British duo ZackInTheBox and Jambo who maintain the World File for speedrunning Tremendous Mario Odyssey co-op in simply 55 minutes and 44 seconds.
Nevertheless, a donation incentive should be met for the run to look at SGDQ.
Additionally taking part within the occasion might be Irish gamer Bree12am who might be racing in opposition to three different gamers in Neon White, a puzzle-platforming first-person shooter wherein she holds three World Data.
Different British runs embrace Okami by SaundersTech, Astro Boy: Omega Issue by Drakodan, Metallic Gear Stable 3: Snake Eater by ApacheSmash, and Ao Ani by Punchy.
The complete SGDQ 2025 schedule, together with dates and localised occasions, may be discovered on gamesdonequick.com and the occasion might be streamed on the official GDQ Twitch web page.
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