SGDQ 2023 kicks off gaming’s purest celebration event for charity

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SGDQ 2023 is about to begin, which is a sentence that fills me with both gleeful anticipation at the prospect of some incredible runs and a rather concerned sensation that nearly half the year has already slipped by. Existential crises aside, the in-person celebration of beating the best games as quickly as possible runs May 28 – June 4, and there’s everything from GTA, The Elder Scrolls, and Elden Ring to Pizza Tower and Choo-Choo Charles on the cards, raising money for charity organisation Doctors Without Borders.

Summer Games Done Quick 2023 kicks off May 28 at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET / 5:30pm BST / 6:30pm CEST. Open-world game Sonic Frontiers is set to get things underway, but there’s all manner of weird and wonderful games on the cards. You can look forward to customized runs, showcases of the most broken glitches, coordinated teams taking down the best co-op games, tool-assisted speedruns that demonstrate near-perfection, and of course plenty of raw skill and understanding on display.

With a full week of entertainment ahead from Minneapolis, Minnesota, you can pull up the SDGQ stream any time and be sure to find something you’ll enjoy. To help you out a bit, we here at PCGamesN have picked out some of the most exciting highlights on the cards to give you a few possible places to dig in if it all seems a bit overwhelming.

Summer Games Done Quick runs Sunday, May 28 – Sunday, June 4. You can watch the action live via the Games Done Quick Twitch channel, or catch archived videos and highlights after the fact on the organisation’s YouTube channel.

Here are some highlights we think are well worth watching out for, though you can browse the full schedule on the official Games Done Quick website. Note that times are