For years now, the TASBot team has shown time and again that tool-assisted speedruns—which can feature superhuman input speeds powered by frame-by-frame emulator recordings—can actually work on ...

Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) concluded recently and, as it does every year, it went out with an excellent lineup of impressive speedruns and a remarkable load of cash for charity. One of our ...

Can a Linux-powered robot play video games faster than you? Only if he takes a hint from piano rolls...and doesn't desync. Let me begin with a brief history of tool-assisted speedruns. It was 2003.