{"id":10400,"date":"2018-01-15T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313049"},"modified":"2018-01-15T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:29:00","slug":"games-done-quick-raises-2-26m-for-the-prevent-cancer-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/games-done-quick-raises-2-26m-for-the-prevent-cancer-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Done Quick raises $2.26M for the Prevent Cancer Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charity speedrunning outfit Games Done Quick has raised a record-breaking $2.26 million for\u00a0the Prevent Cancer Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 was the group&#8217;s first event of the year, and managed to pull in exactly $2,269,209 from over 32,000 donors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The speedrunning showcase ran from January 7 to January 14, and saw a group of volunteers tackle a smorgasbord of titles in super-quick time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dedicated crew managed to finish 154 runs over the course of the week, testing their wits\u00a0against popular and classic titles including <em>Super Mario Galaxy<\/em>, <em>Owlboy<\/em>, <em>Jak and Daxter<\/em>, <em>Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em>, <em>Skyrim<\/em>, <em>Mass Effect<\/em>, <em>Sonic Adventure 2<\/em>, <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em>, and many more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event will return in June for Summer Games Done Quick, so be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamesDoneQuick\">follow the team on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0if you fancy taking part in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">See you in June! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AGDQ2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AGDQ2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSTe5VB8Sj\">pic.twitter.com\/BSTe5VB8Sj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Games Done Quick (@GamesDoneQuick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamesDoneQuick\/status\/952483899908780032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity speedrunning outfit Games Done Quick has raised a record-breaking $2.26 million for\u00a0the Prevent Cancer Foundation.\u00a0 Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 was the group&#8217;s first event of the year, and managed to pull in exactly $2,269,209 from over 32,000 donors.\u00a0 The speedrunning showcase ran from January 7 to January 14, and saw a group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}