Video games Completed Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Completed Fast from his mom’s basement in 2010, says he plans on taking a trip earlier than “diving headfirst into my subsequent journey.” First, nonetheless, he plans on attending one last charity occasion – Superior Video games Completed Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.
“Since I began Video games Completed Fast, I’ve seen it develop from a small volunteer effort to the thriving organisation that it’s at this time,” Uyama stated in a press assertion. “I’d not have been in a position to 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 dimension and variety through the years.”
Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations for the reason that starting, is moving into the function of proprietor and managing director that Uyama is forsaking.
“I really feel extremely honoured to be entrusted with the way forward for GDQ by Uyama, and can do the whole lot I can to construct upon the muse he has constructed for the organisation since its inception,” he stated. “I’d not be the place I’m at this time with out Mike and the group he has constructed. It’s unbelievable to see how a lot we’ve grown, transitioning from a gaggle of associates in a basement to an organization with over 50 workers members, elevating tens of millions of {dollars} for charity!”
Final yr’s Summer season Video games Completed 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 embody a 16-minute any% nine-exits run of Stephen Seagal is the Ultimate Possibility (Prototype) on the SNES, a six-player all-vehicles, no-soap run of PowerWash Simulator on PC, and a 15-minute ‘Previous Souls’ run of Darkish Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. There’s an enormous vary of RPG video games, FPS video games, and previous video games that gifted gamers might be speedrunning, as normal.
All proceeds will profit the Forestall Most cancers Basis.
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