world record
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Seemingly Unbreakable Getting Over It World Record Turns Out To Be A Fake
1In Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, a man in a pot tries to climb a mountain with a sledgehammer. A Chinese speedrunner named Ccfst recently seemed to help that man climb the mountain faster than anyone before him, setting a new world record that struck some as impossible. The sceptics were right. Over the…
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Another Wind Waker HD Glitch Is Rewriting The Rules For The Game’s World Records
A trick that lets players finish the third dungeon without collecting the boss key in the Wii U remaster of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, is the latest in a slew of glitch discoveries that have made the game’s speedrunning scene one of the most exciting to follow. Though a new world…
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Galaga Champ Obliterates 29-Year-Old World Record Over 11 Hours
Until this week, Stephen M. Krogman held something very special: one of the longest-running records in video games. His 15.999 million score in the classic Galaga arcade game stood for almost three decades, having been set and verified in June 1989. But that record now belongs to Armando “APK” Gonzalez, who is being hailed as…
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It’s Been A Groundbreaking Month For Ocarina Of Time Speedrunning
The last month has seen some dramatic changes to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning, especially in the completionist category. A handful of newly-discovered glitches and shortcuts have blown open the doors on what was previously thought possible. One of the scene’s most accomplished players has managed to combine them to achieve some…