speedrunning

Read Only Memory, the publisher of video game-related books such as Sega Dreamcast: Collected Works, has just announced it is now funding a new book from the freelance writer/academic Kat Brewster on the "fiercely competitive – yet surprisingly collaborative" world of speedrunning. Any%: A...

Wack0 (also known as "Slipstream") identified a "pialease nerf" stack buffer overflow for the game "Pokémon Ultra Sun," which can allow a payload to be executed, for the ability to perform speedrunning tasks or installing custom firmware if this is the case. The exploit appears to only work...

The world of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning is a wild one. The best of the best have Any% runs down to under four minutes these days, but there's still hope that it can be done faster. And so we reach the latest discovery, one that utilises a Wii U GamePad and a rubber band to shave three...

Speedrunners have recently found a ridiculous new glitch route for Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance's Juste Any% category and it's already led to a new World Record. The new route first came to our attention over the weekend thanks to a tweet from the speedrunner Jupiterclimb on Twitter, who...