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Why Speedrun.com should disassociate themselves from Guinness World Records

For many years, Guinness World Records exclusively partnered with Twin Galaxies as its authority on video gaming achievements. For all its flaws, at one time TG was the sole major scorekeeping organization. In 2017, Guinness broadened their scorekeeping affiliations, adding material from speedrunning hub Speedrun.com to their annual “Gamer’s Edition” of the Guinness World Records book. More …

Follow-up: Well after things died down, Phantasy Star cheater Kevin Durden quietly got back on the DMCA train

(In July 2019, while researching other matters, I incidentally stumbled upon the fact that Phantasy Star speedrun cheater Kevin Durden had quietly gone back and filed DMCA notices in attempt to strike the evidence against him. This included a DMCA notice against a speedrun discussion show which, among other segments featuring other players, brought Kevin …

I have reason to believe Todd Rogers was dishonest about his strictly impossible world record Atari score…

…on Barnstorming (Atari 2600). His claimed best time of 32.04 seconds is provably impossible. Hello, everyone! As most people know, there’s an ongoing debate around Todd Rogers, the “first professional gamer,” and his long-standing high score on Dragster. (See this and this if you don’t know what I’m talking about.) It’s been over four months …