The 'holy grail' of Super Mario 64 techniques has recently been perfected by the speedrunning community and it is capable of finally achieving a sub-1:37 time for 120-star runs. The technique in ...

How did you play Breath of the Wild? Did you mainline the Divine Beasts and head straight for Ganon, or did you soak in every peaceful moment across the expansive world of Hyrule? The 2017 masterpiece ...

My palms won’t stop sweating, beads of moisture dripping down the buttons of my controller. My grip hasn’t changed in nearly an hour, but I refuse to let my wetted hands kill my focus. I try to ...

In many traditional esports games, players compete online at the same time. But the single-player game speedrun is another exciting aspect of the world of competitive video games with its own ...

To an uninformed viewer, it might seem silly. They're playing the game all wrong! Why is his character glitching out like that? Is she just smashing Mario into a wall? How did he just fly through the ...

With only a few days to go until The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom releases, some speedrunners have started to plot their next adventures. The speedrunner community surrounding Zelda games is ...

A speedrunner recently broke the Ocarina of Time world record for fastest completion time, finishing their playthrough with 13 seconds to spare. The run was recently shared on Reddit, where a user ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Open-world games are a prime choice for speedrunning with glitches and ...

World record-holding speed runner Xamide has published a new record-breaking DOOM Eternal speed run which took just 27 minutes. As you can imagine, a number of exploits within the game were used, ...