Video games Finished Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Finished 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 last charity occasion – Superior Video games Finished Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.
“Since I began Video games Finished Fast, I’ve seen it develop from a small volunteer effort to the thriving organisation that it’s at this time,” Uyama mentioned 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 potential with out the assistance of the speedrunning group, which has grown each in measurement and variety through the years.”
Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations because the starting, is getting into the function of proprietor and managing director that Uyama is abandoning.
“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 muse he has constructed for the organisation since its inception,” he mentioned. “I might not be the place I’m at this time with out Mike and the crew he has constructed. It’s unbelievable 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 hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for charity!”
Final yr’s Summer time Video games Finished Fast featured duelling Elden Ring Speedruns and a number of others. It wrapped up after elevating $3 million for Medical doctors With out Borders.
AGDQ 2023, which begins this weekend, will embody a 16-minute any% nine-exits run of Stephen Seagal is the Last Choice (Prototype) on the SNES, a six-player all-vehicles, no-soap run of PowerWash Simulator on PC, and a 15-minute ‘Outdated Souls’ run of Darkish Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. There’s an enormous vary of RPG video games, FPS video games, and outdated video games that gifted gamers might be speedrunning, as normal.
All proceeds will profit the Stop Most cancers Basis.
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