Video games Carried out Fast founder will step down after subsequent occasion

Video games Carried out Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Carried out 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 Carried out Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.

“Since I began Video games Carried out 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 neighborhood, which has grown each in dimension and variety over time.”

Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations because the starting, is getting into the position 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 every part 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 workforce he has constructed. It’s unbelievable to see how a lot we’ve grown, transitioning from a gaggle of mates in a basement to an organization with over 50 employees members, elevating thousands and thousands of {dollars} for charity!”

Final yr’s Summer time Video games Carried out Fast featured duelling Elden Ring Speedruns and a bunch of others. It wrapped up after elevating $3 million for Medical doctors With out Borders.

AGDQ 2023, which begins this weekend, will embrace a 16-minute any% nine-exits run of Stephen Seagal is the Remaining Choice (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 There’s an enormous vary of RPG video games, FPS video games, and outdated video games that gifted gamers might be speedrunning, as common.

All proceeds will profit the Forestall Most cancers Basis.

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