Video games Executed Fast founder Mike Uyama has introduced that he’s leaving the charity speedrunning organisation. Uyama, who launched Video games Executed Fast from his mom’s basement in 2010, says he plans on taking a trip earlier than “diving headfirst into my subsequent journey.” First, nevertheless, he plans on attending one closing charity occasion – Superior Video games Executed Fast 2023, which kicks off January 8.
“Since I began Video games Executed Fast, I’ve seen it develop from a small volunteer effort to the thriving organisation that it’s right now,” Uyama stated in a press assertion. “I’d not have been in a position to do it with out the assistance of Matt Merkle and the expansion of GDQ wouldn’t have been doable with out the assistance of the speedrunning group, which has grown each in measurement and variety through the years.”
Merkle, who has labored as GDQ’s director of operations because the starting, is moving into the position of proprietor and managing director that Uyama is abandoning.
“I really feel extremely honoured to be entrusted with the way forward for GDQ by Uyama, and can do every part I can to construct upon the inspiration he has constructed for the organisation since its inception,” he stated. “I’d not be the place I’m right now with out Mike and the workforce he has constructed. It’s unimaginable to see how a lot we’ve grown, transitioning from a bunch of buddies in a basement to an organization with over 50 employees members, elevating hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for charity!”
Final 12 months’s Summer time Video games Executed Fast featured duelling Elden Ring Speedruns and a bunch of others. It wrapped up after elevating $3 million for Medical doctors With out Borders.
AGDQ 2023, which begins this weekend, will embody a 16-minute any% nine-exits run of Stephen Seagal is the Last Possibility (Prototype) on the SNES, a six-player all-vehicles, no-soap run of PowerWash Simulator on PC, and a 15-minute ‘Previous Souls’ run of Darkish Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. There’s an enormous vary of RPG video games, FPS video games, and previous video games that gifted gamers will likely be speedrunning, as standard.
All proceeds will profit the Forestall Most cancers Basis.
Picture credit score: Video games Executed Fast
