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Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Watch Day 5 here

Come check out a handful of GDQ debuts, a Mario Maker glitch fiesta, and a lot more!

Ozzie Mejia

January 18, 2024 6:00 AM

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The marathon is a little more than halfway over for Awesome Games Done Quick. But we're watching the best speedrunners in the world come together to play through games of the past and present. As they do every year, they'll be raising money for charity in front of a worldwide audience on Twitch.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 has come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Many of this year's runners are on-hand for live runs, though a few are checking in virtually from their home spaces. This year's event is raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. After four days, the runners have raised over $780,000. Shacknews will be watching all week and we'll make sure to bring you the daily schedule each day. Plus, we're making sure to highlight the biggest runs worth watching.

Before we get to the schedule, let's look at a highlight from Day 4. Drum solo!

You can watch all of the action in the embed below!

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Day 5 schedule

Here's the full schedule for Day 5, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of runs to check out:

4:10PM - Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

This is a great day for GDQ debuts and it's arguably led by this overlooked gem from the folks at FromSoftware. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon was a great return to form for this series, but it's not an easy romp by any means. It's a FromSoft joint, of course it's not easy. So naturally, the target time is just a mere 1:50:00.

6:07PM - Super Mario Maker 2

If you've read my Evening Reading and Weekend Discussion posts, you know why this is here. If you haven't, CarlSagan42 is one of the most recognizable faces in the Mario Maker community. One of his specialties is dealing with troll levels and marveling at the wild glitch tech that has befouled, yet also enhanced the Super Mario Maker 2 experience. If you've never seen any of these trolls before, prepare to be dazzled by this Glitch Showcase.

8:34PM - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

On the subject of overlooked gems and GDQ debuts, here's Bomb Rush Cyberfunk from the fabulous crew at Team Reptile. This was one of the breakout hits of last year and we look forward to feeling the groove and seeing some wild combos in this stylized sports-adjacent fun fest.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 will take place from now through Saturday, January 20. For more, check out the Games Done Quick website and be sure to come back all week to Shacknews for more on this week's marathon.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?