Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about gaming and esports, giving news, insights, and more. As a video game speedrunning historian, Summoning Salt has ...

In a game where the top 14 speed records are all within one second of each other, every input and every frame counts when you're vying for the fastest time to beat Super Mario Bros. People have become ...

YouTuber Summoning Salt has been running a great series on speedrunning history for the past few months. In it, he takes a game - up until now, mostly console-focused - and goes over its entire ...

When it comes to Speedrunning, there is no name more widely known than SummoningSalt. His YouTube channel, which documents many of the most popular world records across various speed games, has ...

I've always enjoyed watching speedrunners demonstrate their craft. As illustrated in a recent video from YouTube user Summoning Salt (also a world record-holding speedrunner), the level of precision ...

YouTube is also good for spilling the beans on cheats and glitches that will allow you to exploit classic titles and (hopefully) some poor sap who's willing to back his gaming trash talk with money.

One of the best changes to the Games Done Quick series of charity speedruns over the last few years is the focus on education rather than raw speed. The speedrunning community feels more open than ...