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Super Mario For the first time in 4 years, there's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder: "We are now only 15 frames away from a perfect speedrun"

Super Mario "How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade

Super Mario "After months and months of chokes," speedrun legend achieves fastest blindfolded Super Mario 64 run of all time, but only after RNG ended a near-perfect run that would've killed the category "forever"

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Racing Games After 50 hours and over 3,000 attempts, Mario Kart speedrunner proves a "humanly impossible" trick is actually doable, and absolutely destroys a 2-year-old world record in the process

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Super Mario Mario Kart World player declares a new "world record" with 770 tricks in the air off one jump as they soar across the map

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Super Mario Mario Kart World is "completely broken," speedrun legend declares as players demolish the racing game's time trials with its wild new movement mechanics

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Donkey Kong I'm glad to announce Donkey Kong Bananza has the Super Mario Odyssey sauce: it's taken less than a day for players to skip a boss fight entirely with speedrunning tech

Platforming Games Days before Silksong, speedrunner manages "perhaps one of, if not the grandest achievements in Hollow Knight history" with a 2 hour and 49 minute 112% world record

Dark Souls 8 years after release, a stunning new Dark Souls 3 speedrun world record has been set, and I started scratching my head about 75 seconds into watching it

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The Legend of Zelda 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 easier

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Super Mario Mario Kart World's new Rewind feature can be used in Time Trials to set wild records, like this 13-second lap

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Super Mario Mario Kart World player smashes their "world record" of 770 air tricks after finding a way to trap themselves in a spinning "infinite loop forever"

MMO Games "Immortal king of speedrunning" can only say "that's a great run, gg" after MMO mad lad beats him in 3-year revenge match with a new world record just minutes ahead

Super Mario Intrepid Mario Kart World explorer spends 1 day mapping the "202 unique routes between tracks" in the new Switch 2 game: "If you raced on all of them, it would take over 10 hours"

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There's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder

For years, Niftski has absolutely dominated the Super Mario Bros. speedrun charts and nobody else has been able to claim the world record title from him in all that time. Until now.

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