Speedrunning charity occasion Superior Video games Achieved Fast is again in-person this 12 months. AGDQ 2024 has locked its dates and locale for January 14 by way of 21 on the Wyndham Resort and Resorts in Pittsburgh, PA.

Although Video games Achieved Fast has hosted a couple of in-person occasions because it was pushed on-line by COVID-19, final 12 months’s Superior Video games Achieved Fast known as off its in-person Florida occasion. On the time, organizers cited each “continued disregard” for COVID-19 risks and elevated aggression in the direction of LGBTQ+ people as causes for taking the occasion on-line as an alternative.

Now, AGDQ 2024 is gearing as much as run this January in downtown Pittsburgh as an alternative. The charity occasion remains to be largely the one you most likely know of by now, too. For one week, 24 hours a day, speedrunners will exhibit all of the distinctive and intriguing methods they navigate video games as quick as doable. All of it takes place dwell, each in-person and on-line by way of GDQ’s Twitch channel.

Speedrun for charity

AGDQ 2024 can also be retaining with its conventional charity companion, the Forestall Most cancers Basis. The winter fundraiser helps PCF, whereas the Summer season Video games Achieved Fast occasion backs Docs With out Borders.

Donations open in the course of the week of, and extra information, together with runners and scheduling, will possible arrive between now and January.

It’s good to see AGDQ returning to in-person occasions after final 12 months’s on-line transfer, although. The web period of GDQ was, by all means, one of many extra profitable pandemic-era shifts to distant broadcasting. It additionally opened up avenues for attention-grabbing runs that weren’t beforehand possible, both, as a consequence of location or logistics. A few of that has even bled over into the occasions as they’ve gone again in-person.

However listening to the group get entangled and the power of these gatherings is an enormous piece of the GDQ attraction. Particularly on the ultimate day, it’s all the time enjoyable to listen to the laughs, cheers, and no matter shout-outs handle to pop up over the week. I’ll be trying ahead to all of that this coming January.