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The speedrun charity company Games Done Quick just recently ended its very first occasion for 2025, and made $2.56 million in contributions for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
Incredible Games Done Quick (AGDQ) ranged from January 5 to January 12, and the 24/7 occasion saw banners play video games to raise cash. Its profits were a minor bump up from AGDQ's $2.54 million in 2024, and a bit below 2023's $2.6 million. To date, GDQ's greatest record stays the record-breaking $3.4 million generated for its Summer 2022 display.
In its statement, the company noted it's now raised over $54 million for charity considering that its start in 2010.
“Thank you to everybody who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your remarkable kindness & & assistance,” it composed. Avoid Cancer provided its own love on January 11, stating gamers “continue to surprise us with your kindness. Your contributions make a massive effect, THANK YOU!”
This year's AGDQ had a number of highlights, from a live performance throughout the Crazy Taxi sector to Elden Ring being had fun with a saxophone. (Really.) Every run is easily offered on the GDQ YouTube page, which likewise includes videos from previous occasions.
Games Done Quick will broaden its fundraising efforts with a battery of occasions for various causes througout 2025. Signing up with the lineup is its first-ever Back to Black speedrunning stream, which ranges from Thursday, February 6 to Sunday, February 9 to benefit the racial justice not-for-profit Race Forward.
Frost Fatales will likewise return for its 4th successive year, and its 5th because debuting in 2020. The all-women and femmes display goes from Sunday, March 9 to the following Sunday, March 16, and will offer its earnings to the National Women's Law.
Summer Seasons Games Done Quick, AGDQ's main buddy, will raise cash for Doctors Without Borders in Minneapolis starting Sunday, July 6 and concluding on Saturday, July 12.
Contributing Editor, GameDeveloper.com
A Kansas City, MO native, Justin Carter has actually composed for many websites consisting of IGN, Polygon, and SyFy Wire. In addition to Game Developer, his writing can be discovered at io9 over on Gizmodo. Do not ask him about just how much gum he's had, since the response will be more than he's prepared to confess.
