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Video games Achieved Fast has raised greater than $2.6 million for the Forestall Most cancers Basis at its first online game speedrunning occasion of 2023. Whereas falling in need of matching the $3.4 million raised throughout AGDQ 2022 last year, the money raised at AGDC 2023 brings the overall quantity raised for charity so far by Video games Achieved Fast to $43 million (seen through Kotaku).
The group, which holds two charity online game marathons every year — Superior Video games Achieved Fast in January, and Summer time Video games Achieved Fast (SGDQ), often held in late June or early July — announced the total sum raised on Twitter, alongside the hashtag “#ThankYouMike.” Video games Achieved Fast founder Mike Uyama announced last week that he could be stepping down from the charity after 13 years on account of well being causes, making AGDQ 2023 prone to be his final occasion for some time.
The January occasion was initially supposed to be the primary in-person occasion for GDQ in three years, scheduled to happen in Florida in entrance of a reside viewers. The group later determined to stay on-line solely, alluding to the state’s covid insurance policies and “elevated aggression” in the direction of LGBTQ+ people. “We don’t consider it’s a secure place for our group presently,” mentioned GDQ via an announcement on its web site.
