Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ), a yearly speedrunning event raising money for the Prevent Cancer foundation, is ringing in the new year January 5. In case you're unfamiliar, AGDQ is a yearly charity event that sees speedrunners chewing through a buffet of games, streamed live to an eager audience.
It always produces some brilliant spectacles, like a dog playing (digital) baseball. Hey, there ain't no rules that say it can't happen. My personal favourite actually comes from Summer Games Done Quick in 2023, wherein a bunch of determined chefs play Ratatoullie and keep up the "Yes, Chef" bit the entire time. Both AGDQ and SGDQ are always instructional and hilarious—and all for a good cause, with AGDQ raising over $2.5 million dollars last year.
DrDoot will take centre-stage with jazz powers befitting an Elden Lord, dooting through a boss showcase on January 11, 3:50 pm EST—just before that, there'll also be a "lockout bingo" run at 1:30 pm EST between adef and Captain_Domo. In case you're uninitiated, lockout bingo is a competitive format in which two players try to get lines on a bingo board full of tasks—twist being, they're sharing the same board. Sort of like a version of Noughts & Crosses, only designed by gamer SAW. It should be delightful.
There'll also be the "awful runs", an entire, hellish block from January 8, 11:20 pm EST to January 9, 6 am EST that will feature—charitably—some of the worst games ever made. Superman 64, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and something called 'Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon' will be streamed to the internet alongside many others, so we can all be both proud and ashamed of our hobby's shared cultural history. At least Plumbers Don't Wear Ties isn't there.
