Games Done Quick will host its first ever event in Europe

Games Done Quick, nan kindness video crippled speedrunning series, is making its European debut successful a unrecorded arena astatine Germany’s Gamescom this summer.

GDQ’s marathon arena will tally for nan long of nan three-day show successful Cologne, starting August 28-30, and will characteristic celebrated runners and an on-site unrecorded audience. The arena will beryllium broadcast connected Twitch and YouTube, pinch programming kicking disconnected astatine 4am ET (one for each you early risers) regular and moving until 2pm.

"We’re thrilled to grow Games Done Quick globally and to bring a unrecorded arena to gamescom successful Germany, an opportunity that’s incredibly meaningful to our team," said Ashley Farkas, Games Done Quick’s Owner and Business Director. "This business not only supports an astonishing initiative, but besides creates abstraction for much runners to participate, particularly those who haven’t antecedently had nan opportunity to recreation to nan US."

Games Done Quick was established successful 2010 and has since raised much than $60 cardinal for charities worldwide. Its first event of this twelvemonth took spot backmost successful January, and featured unrecorded speedruns of Super Mario Sunshine, Hades II and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to sanction a few.