Awesome games made fast 2023 online has just concluded and its organizers at Games Done Quick have announced that the popular speedrunning event has once again succeeded in raising funds to aid cancer prevention.
We learned that more than $2.6 million (or more precisely, $2,642,493) has been raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The marathon streamed on Twitch between January 8th and this morning for a whole week of speedrunning fun.
We also hear that Summer Games Made Quick returns and will air between May 28 and June 4, 2023. The next speed racing event hosted by Games Done Quick will be fatal frosts between February 26 and March 4.
Several records have been broken during the event, including the following.
The press release also provides a total count of the funds the organization has raised since 2010. More than $43 million has been raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, Direct Relief, AbleGamers, Malala Fund and Organization for Autism. Research.
If you missed the event, you can check out the huge marathon playlist over at Games Done Quick’s official youtube channel. That may very well help him through at least February, when Frost Fatales airs.