Feeling sizzling, sizzling, sizzling…

Look, I don’t know the place the 12 months goes both, however we’re, as soon as once more, making ready for one of the thrilling and most enjoyable weeks of the complete gaming 12 months — Sure, Summer time Video games Performed Fast (SGDQ) shall be upon us as soon as once more in a little bit over a month’s time, as among the quickest fingers on the planet tackle a cavalcade of recent and previous titles, and all in support of a really worthy trigger.

SGDQ 2023, which can kick off on Sunday, Might 28, earlier than winding up one week afterward Sunday, June 4, will happen as a hybrid on-line/in-person occasion, and can see knowledgeable gamers from everywhere in the globe will come collectively for seven days of electrical speedruns, participant vs participant races, and distinctive and typically mind-blowing challenges. The GDQ staff will, after all, be available for participant interviews, viewer contests, and to learn out messages of help from the house viewers.

The official #SGDQ2023 schedule is right here!! Which runs are you 100% tuning in for? ?https://t.co/PjOLrdHHhs pic.twitter.com/aXEFHaq5q7

— Video games Performed Fast ? #SGDQ2023 (@GamesDoneQuick) April 12, 2023

this 12 months’s schedule, we are able to see that the majority generations of gaming shall be repped at this 12 months’s occasions, with a bevy of runs on fashionable titles similar to Elden Ring, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, Lil Gator Recreation, and Fireplace Emblem Interact, in addition to showings from speedrun stalwarts within the Metroid, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Legend of Zelda franchises. In fact, the unusual and obscure may even be on deck, with runs deliberate for titles similar to Last Battle 3, the X-Males arcade, Shatterhand, and the abominable SNES launch, Wayne’s World.

As all the time, viewers will have the ability to donate to the occasion all through the week, with all proceeds going to non-profit group Medecins Sans Frontieres, a global community {of professional} healthcare employees who present medical support, care, and reduction to those that want it, wherever it’s wanted, no matter race, colour, creed, or political persuasion. Final 12 months’s SGDQ occasion raised a tremendous $3.01 million USD, and right here’s hoping that this 12 months’s occasion shall be equally as profitable.

SGDQ 2023 will happen between Might 28 and June 4, 2023. The in-person occasion will happen at The Hilton Minneapolis lodge, and all streams shall be accessible for viewing reside on the GDQ Twitch channel.