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Summer Games Done Quick 2024 raises £1.9m, taking its lifetime charitable total to £40m

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 is over for another year, raising £1.9m ($2.5m) for the charity Doctors Without Borders/Mé…

Watch on YouTube Running 24-hours a day from 30th June to 6th July in Minnesota – and broadcast across the world on Games Done Quick's Twitch channel – the in-person event was "filled with delightful moments", including everyone's favourite pup Peanut Butter playing Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. "Other highlights were a coordinated dance of Herald of Darkness during Alan Wake 2 and a musical performance during the 1991 Western classic Sunset Riders." Crowds gathered physically and virtually for speedy runs of other games like Elden Ring, Minecraft Dungeons, Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, Halo 3, Old School Runescape, Evil Zone, and "much, much more".

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