The new time for the quickest completion of the classic NES challenge comes very close to matching the record for a tool-assisted speedrun. Insert fireworks in the sky above the castle here. CNET ...

This year's first Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) charity livestream has shown players a side of Mario Kart World that they ...

Video game speedruns are a far cry from racing a car in the real world, but it's amazing to see how precisely a vehicle can ...

The story of Super Mario Bros. speedrunning is one of dedicated players spending years shaving fractions of a second off completing the classic Nintendo game as quickly as possible. And nowhere has ...

Peter Grimm has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. Since 2011, he has channeled that passion into writing about games, culminating in his current role as a writer and editor for ...

Super Mario 64 speedrunner Cheese has made history at the European Speedrunning Marathons. While performing before a live audience, he broke the 120-Star world record time, clocking in at 01:38:54.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Super Mario Bros. 35 event, the 4th Coin King Special Battle, kicked off February 11 at 11 PM PT (2 AM ET on February 12) and runs until the same ...

For two whole years, four minutes and 55 seconds ranked as the fastest that anyone could beat the original Super Mario Bros. game for NES. The world speedrun record was believed to be cemented back in ...

Mario has been the star of some of the most impressive and beautifully executed speedruns in the history of games, and thanks to YouTube j0rts, he's now the star of one of an amazingly silly one that ...

Blindfolded speedrunning specialist Bubzia has dominated the sightless Super Mario 64 scene for years, and he's not stopping yet. He's is currently working on beating his own blindfolded 70-star world ...