The latest edition of Awesome Games Done Quick, the 24-hour video game speedrunning marathon that supports charitable organizations, has been a great success. They have achieved their fundraising goal of over $2.6 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

AGDQ 2023 had 150 speedruns, bolstered by donations from 21,519 people. It raked in $2,644,770.41 in total; the most exorbitant amount donated was $100,000, while the average was $66.36 and the median sum was $25.

AGDQ 2022 made an amazing feat by accumulating over $3.4 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, even though this event didn’t reach a new high mark, the achievement is to be celebrated as it will positively impact many lives.

The upcoming Games Done Quick occasion is the Summer Games Done Quick of 2023, scheduled to take place from May 28 to June 4.SGDQ in the previous year collected a total of $3.01 million for the noble cause of Doctors Without Borders.

For a week beginning January 8, people from all corners of the globe unlocked their talents in aid of a good cause, streaming on Twitch. It was a spectacle full of impressive feats, otherwise demonstrated when @NotImJhay earned himself a world record in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

You are able to see all of the speedruns from Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 on Games Done Quick’s YouTube channel. You can observe various games, including Pokemon Yellow, Final Fantasy VII, Portal and others, being completed in an incredibly swift way by some of the finest players in the world.

Before Awesome Games Done Quick announced that their founder, Mike Uyama, would retire from the corporation after 13 years, they had a pretty legendary past. In 2010, the first GDQ event was held in Uyama’s mother’s basement and in that short amount of time, the organization raised over $41 million for charities like the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Borders.