It’s easy to marvel at the feats of speedrunners, especially players who are currently working on speedruns of the hard-as-hell adventure Elden Ring. These highly technical players can condense a ...

On this first episode of Flyover Culture, we're digging into speedrunning - how runners around the world finish games of all genres in mind-blowing-ly short time frames. How do they do what they do?

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about gaming and esports, giving news, insights, and more. As a video game speedrunning historian, Summoning Salt has ...

Max “RinHara5aki” Blumenthal with over 2300+ hours experience with Breath of the Wild, reacts and breaks down even more clips from viral speedrunning techniques to funny ways to abuse the games ...

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 ...

It’s hard to be scared when you’re too busy being a fucking champion. That’s how I explain the speedruns of horror games. When you peel away the horror to expose the systems underneath everything, the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Speedrunning is nothing new to Metroid. Ever since the original game locked endings, or increasingly bare outfits for Samus, behind completion times, ...