Video games Accomplished Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Accomplished Fast from his mom’s basement in 2010, says he plans on taking a trip earlier than “diving headfirst into my subsequent journey.” First, nevertheless, he plans on attending one ultimate charity occasion – Superior Video games Accomplished Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.
“Since I began Video games Accomplished Fast, I’ve seen it develop from a small volunteer effort to the thriving organisation that it’s at the moment,” Uyama stated in a press assertion. “I might not have been capable of do it with out the assistance of Matt Merkle and the expansion of GDQ wouldn’t have been attainable with out the assistance of the speedrunning group, which has grown each in measurement and variety over time.”
Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations for the reason that starting, is getting 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 every thing I can to construct upon the inspiration he has constructed for the organisation since its inception,” he stated. “I might not be the place I’m at the moment with out Mike and the crew he has constructed. It’s unimaginable to see how a lot we’ve grown, transitioning from a bunch of buddies in a basement to an organization with over 50 workers members, elevating thousands and thousands of {dollars} for charity!”
Final yr’s Summer season Video games Accomplished 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 Ultimate 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 previous video games that proficient gamers shall be speedrunning, as traditional.
All proceeds will profit the Forestall Most cancers Basis.
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