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SERIES · ESTABLISHED 2016
SpeedRunners
ArcadeFightingIndiePlatformer
COVERED BY 31 WRITERS
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Dustin Bailey, Fraser Gilbert, Austin Wood and 28 more across 14 outlets
Writers indexed
31
Entries
2
Articles
37
Reviews
1
Outlets
14
2 ENTRIES
Every game in the series
WRITER INDEX
Covering SpeedRunners
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any SpeedRunners entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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Arka Sarkar Destructoid·1 Sept
SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed release countdown — Exact date and timenewsonSpeedRunners 2: King of Speed
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Darryn Bonthuys GameSpot·1 Sept
Xbox Game Pass In September Expands With 7 New GamesnewsonCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War+ 2 more
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Austin Wood GamesRadar+·11 Aug
One of the first Animal Crossing speedrunners spent 4,300 hours catching shrimp in an MMO "just to see if I could," and he might even "do it again"newsComparisononOld School RuneScape
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John Walker Kotaku·11 Aug
Super Mario Bros. Speedrunners Are 0.1 Seconds Away From PerfectionnewsComparisononSuper Mario Bros.
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Patricia Hernandez Polygon·15 Jun
Is one of the world's best Pokémon speedrunners cheating?newsComparisononPokémon
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·15 Apr
Because "the PS3 port is strange," Ratchet & Clank speedrunners can now beat Up Your Arsenal "in under 1 second"newsComparisononRatchet & Clank
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·3 Apr
After 40 years, Super Mario Bros speedrunners discover "the Holy Grail of glitches"newsComparisononSuper Mario
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Kaan Serin GamesRadar+·31 Jan
After 21 years, GTA: San Andreas speedrunners discover a wild 31-step skip that lets you beat the original PC port in under an hournewsComparisononGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Austin Wood GamesRadar+·4 Nov 2025
Pokemon Legends Z-A speedrunners are all using the same one Pokemon: a free, heroic Heracross named BoisnewsComparisononPokémon Legends: Z-A
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Ed Nightingale Eurogamer·10 Sept 2025
While we're struggling with Hollow Knight: Silksong, speedrunners are beating it in under 90 minutesnewsonHollow Knight: Silksong
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Connor Makar Eurogamer·5 Sept 2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong speedrunners are already finding game-changing skips and faster movement techniquesnewsComparisononHollow Knight: Silksong
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Kaan Serin GamesRadar+·31 Jul 2025
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunners discover a skip that was "one of the biggest tricks still left to find" in the 27-year-old RPG, and it saves 2 whole minutesnewsComparisononThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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Rebekah Valentine IGN·24 Jul 2025
Donkey Kong Bananza Speedrunners Have Already Found a Way to (Sort of) Skip Getting PaulinenewsComparisononDonkey Kong Bananza
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Adam Newell Destructoid·21 Jul 2025
Speedrunners are beating Donkey King Bananza in under two hoursnewsonSpeedRunners
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·25 Jun 2025
Wind Waker on Nintendo Switch 2 made two tiny changes that break it wide open for Zelda speedrunners – a strategy so hard "only a few people in the whole world can do it" is suddenly a lot easiernewsComparisononSpeedRunners
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Dustin Bailey GamesRadar+·19 May 2025
Super Mario Bros speedrunners spend 16 months and "hundreds of hours" doing "things that have never been done before in this 40-year-old game" to finally build the perfect 000000 point runnewsComparisononSuper Mario
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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Rock Paper Shotgun·11 Apr 2025
SpeedRunners 2 announced, triggering painful Sonic 2 flashbacks even if it's actually "2D Mario Kart"newsonSpeedRunners 2: King of Speed
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Catherine Lewis GamesRadar+·11 Apr 2025
Ahead of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, speedrunners have discovered a record-breaking new method to blast through X and Y by completely disregarding the strategy that's been in place for the last 10 yearsnewsonPokémon Legends: Z-A
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Hayley Williams GameSpot·11 Apr 2025
SpeedRunners 2: King Of Speed Announced For 2025 ReleasenewsonSpeedRunners 2: King of Speed
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Brian Shea Game Informer·10 Apr 2025
SpeedRunners 2: King Of Speed Sprints Out Of The Gates This YearnewsonSpeedRunners 2: King of Speed