Video Games this week!1.) Awesome Game Done Quick raises over
1.5 million dollars for the prevent cancer foundation.
This years Awesome Games Quick hosted by Speed Demos Archive raised $1,575,000 for the prevent cancer foundation on January 4-10. Awesome Games Done Quick (or ADGQ for short) is a bi annual event held in the summer and the winter. The event is a marathon of many Video Game speed running. What is speed running? Speed running is when the player plays a game to beat it as fast as human possible, as oppose to going through the game "causally".
There are many speed runners out there and they all ban together run their game of choice at this marathon and try to beat it as humanly possible. For example, a game like Super Mario RPG is a game that would take a normal player around 35 hours to complete, well the runner known as "Checkers" was able to beat the game in under 3 hours at this years ADGQ. The whole marathon lasted six days, and the whole marathon was streamed live on Twitch where viewers could donate money to the prevent cancer foundation.
The marathon started with a Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze run by Michael Goldfish that clocked in at 1:35:36. The Marathon had over 70 different speed runs each with a different runner commentating each one. Some of the highlights of the marathon were a run of Tetris: The Grandmaster edition ran by Qlex, Kaizo Mario ran by Dram55, and a BLINDFOLDED run of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Runnerguy2489.
There are many speed runners out there and they all ban together run their game of choice at this marathon and try to beat it as humanly possible. For example, a game like Super Mario RPG is a game that would take a normal player around 35 hours to complete, well the runner known as "Checkers" was able to beat the game in under 3 hours at this years ADGQ. The whole marathon lasted six days, and the whole marathon was streamed live on Twitch where viewers could donate money to the prevent cancer foundation.
The marathon started with a Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze run by Michael Goldfish that clocked in at 1:35:36. The Marathon had over 70 different speed runs each with a different runner commentating each one. Some of the highlights of the marathon were a run of Tetris: The Grandmaster edition ran by Qlex, Kaizo Mario ran by Dram55, and a BLINDFOLDED run of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Runnerguy2489.
The Japanese Video Game company Nintendo, holds monthly Direct broadcasts that they call "Nintendo Directs". These directs are meant to reveal new games, release dates, and new hardware. Nintendo directs usually have lots of information of there new games and they get many fans very excited.
This months Nintendo direct was held on January 14 at 9 a.m. The direct kicked off with a new Fire Emblem trailer, revealing that there is a new game in the series that is currently unnamed.
Nintendo also showed of the New Nintendo 3DS, a new model for their handheld system that was already previously announced for japan. The new systems includes a new analog stick, better 3d, more shoulder buttons, and improved technical capabilities.
There was also plenty of news about Nintendo's gaming figures, Amiibos. They announced the release date for the third wave amiibos and showed off a new wave of Mario Amiibos. The direct mostly covered games that are coming out in spring of 2015, such as kirby and the rainbow curse, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Codename steam, and Mario party 10. One of the biggest reveals of the direct, was the announcement of a brand new Fire Emblem game.
One of the biggest, and most exciting announcements of the January 14th Nintendo direct was the announcement of New Fire Emblem game in the form of a new trailer. Fire Emblem is a Tactical Rpg game developed by Intelligent Systems. The game was said to be created by the same core team that brought us the previous title in the series, Fire Emblem: Awakening. A game that received high review scores and praise from fans.
The games title so far is simply "The latest in The Fire Emblem Series". This is mostly likely not going to be the final title. The game will offer a brand new story that is not tied to Fire Emblem: Awakening, and the story is said to expect players to "make bigger choices".
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