Video games Accomplished Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Accomplished Fast from his mom’s basement in 2010, says he plans on taking a trip earlier than “diving headfirst into my subsequent journey.” First, nevertheless, he plans on attending one closing charity occasion – Superior Video games Accomplished Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.
“Since I began Video games Accomplished Fast, I’ve seen it develop from a small volunteer effort to the thriving organisation that it’s in the present day,” Uyama mentioned in a press assertion. “I’d not have been capable of do it with out the assistance of Matt Merkle and the expansion of GDQ wouldn’t have been potential with out the assistance of the speedrunning group, which has grown each in measurement and variety over time.”
Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations for the reason that starting, is getting into the function of proprietor and managing director that Uyama is abandoning.
“I really feel extremely honoured to be entrusted with the way forward for GDQ by Uyama, and can do all the pieces I can to construct upon the inspiration he has constructed for the organisation since its inception,” he mentioned. “I’d not be the place I’m in the present day with out Mike and the crew he has constructed. It’s unbelievable to see how a lot we’ve grown, transitioning from a bunch of mates in a basement to an organization with over 50 workers members, elevating tens of millions of {dollars} for charity!”
Final 12 months’s Summer time Video games Accomplished Fast featured duelling Elden Ring Speedruns and a bunch of others. It wrapped up after elevating $3 million for Docs With out Borders.
AGDQ 2023, which begins this weekend, will embrace a 16-minute any% nine-exits run of Stephen Seagal is the Closing Possibility (Prototype) on the SNES, a six-player all-vehicles, no-soap run of PowerWash Simulator on PC, and a 15-minute ‘Outdated Souls’ run of Darkish Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. There’s an enormous vary of RPG video games, FPS video games, and outdated video games that proficient gamers might be speedrunning, as ordinary.
All proceeds will profit the Stop Most cancers Basis.
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