The speedrun charity group Video games Accomplished Fast lately ended its first occasion for 2025, and made $2.56 million in donations for the Stop Most cancers Basis.
Superior Video games Accomplished Fast (AGDQ) ran from January 5 to January 12, and the 24/7 occasion noticed streamers play video games to lift cash. Its proceeds have been a slight bump up from AGDQ’s $2.54 million in 2024, and a bit down from 2023’s $2.6 million. To this point, GDQ’s largest report stays the record-breaking $3.4 million raked in for its Summer time 2022 showcase.
In its announcement, the group famous it is now raised over $54 million for charity since its begin in 2010.
“Thanks to everybody who made this marathon doable, and to all of you in your superb generosity & help,” it wrote. Stop Most cancers gave its personal love on January 11, saying gamers “by no means stop to amaze us together with your generosity. Your donations make an unlimited impression, THANK YOU!”
This 12 months’s AGDQ had a number of highlights, from a reside live performance in the course of the Loopy Taxi section to Elden Ring being performed with a saxophone. (Actually.) Each run is freely out there on the GDQ YouTube web page, which additionally options movies from earlier occasions.
Video games Accomplished Fast will broaden its fundraising efforts with a battery of occasions for various causes througout 2025. Becoming a member of the lineup is its first-ever Again to Black speedrunning stream, which runs from Thursday, February 6 to Sunday, February 9 to profit the racial justice nonprofit Race Ahead.
Frost Fatales will even return for its fourth consecutive 12 months, and its fifth since debuting in 2020. The all-women and femmes showcase goes from Sunday, March 9 to the next Sunday, March 16, and can give its proceeds to the Nationwide Girls’s Legislation Middle.
Lastly, Summer time Video games Accomplished Fast, AGDQ’s main companion, will increase cash for Medical doctors With out Borders in Minneapolis starting Sunday, July 6 and concluding on Saturday, July 12.
