Charity speedrunning occasion Superior Video games Accomplished Fast 2025 has come to a detailed, and the occasion has raised an enormous sum of money for charity group Stop Most cancers Basis.
Per a press launch, AGDQ 2025 has raised a grand complete of $2,556,305 for the most cancers charity, which advocates for most cancers prevention and early detection. That is across the similar quantity raised throughout Superior Video games Accomplished Fast 2023 and barely greater than AGDQ 2024’s complete.
Like final 12 months’s occasion (however not the earlier 12 months’s), AGDQ 2025 came about over a seven-day interval in Pittsburgh, PA, with over 2,000 individuals attending the occasion and “tens of hundreds” of individuals streaming it on-line.
As you’d count on when you’ve seen an AGDQ occasion earlier than, many video games had been streamed throughout this 12 months’s marathon, and a few of them loved some fairly wacky accompaniments too.
Highlights, as a press launch factors out, embody Dr. Doot’s saxophone-driven Elden Ring stream (which you’ll be able to see under), in addition to an precise opera efficiency by Xem upon completion of his run of Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando.
You may additionally have seen FunkopotamusWes taking part in New Tremendous Mario Bros. Wii utilizing his head and toes whereas utilizing his arms to play the piano, then doing the identical whereas blindfolded. No surprise the quantity raised for charity was so excessive.
Lest you suppose AGDQ 2025 targeted solely on good video games, although, suppose once more; the Terrible Block section featured streamers taking part in by video games just like the legendarily godawful Superman 64 and the just-plain-weird Golf With Your Grandmother.
Superior Video games Accomplished Fast 2025 concluded on Sunday morning with a Tremendous Metroid run, which looks like a pleasant, traditional method to carry proceedings to a detailed.
In the event you missed any of the runs that came about throughout AGDQ 2025, you’ll be able to test all of them out by way of the official Video games Accomplished Fast YouTube channel. You too can nonetheless make a donation to Stop Most cancers Basis by way of its official web site if you would like to.
