speedrunning

Famed speedrunner Suigi has claimed all five major records associated with Super Mario 64, effectively enshrining himself as one of the greatest speedrunners of all time (thanks, GamesRadar). There are five categories when it comes to completing Mario's 64-bit debut really fast: 120 star, 70...

Read Only Memory, the publisher of video game-related books such as Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works, has just announced it is now funding a new book from the freelance writer/academic Kat Brewster on the "fiercely competitive – yet surprisingly collaborative" world of speedrunning. Any%: A...

Wack0 (also known as "Slipstream") identified a "pialease nerf" stack buffer overflow for the game "Pokémon Ultra Sun," which can allow a payload to be executed, for the ability to perform speedrunning tasks or installing custom firmware if this is the case. The exploit appears to only work...

The world of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning is a wild one. The best of the best have Any% runs down to under four minutes these days, but there's still hope that it can be done faster. And so we reach the latest discovery, one that utilises a Wii U GamePad and a rubber band to shave three...

Speedrunners have recently found a ridiculous new glitch route for Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance's Juste Any% category and it's already led to a new World Record. The new route first came to our attention over the weekend thanks to a tweet from the speedrunner Jupiterclimb on Twitter, who...