{"id":280891,"date":"2026-02-04T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:46:10","slug":"games-done-quicks-back-to-black-2026-event-kicks-off-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280891\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Done Quick’s Back to Black 2026 event kicks off tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of AGDQ<\/a> in January, Games Done Quick is hosting its second speedrunning event of the year, Back to Black 2026, starting tomorrow, February 5. The four-day event is organized by Black in a Flash<\/a> and is raising money for Race Forward<\/a>, a nonprofit that works across communities to address systemic racism.<\/p>\n

Back to Black is timed to the start of Black History Month and highlights the deep bench of talent in the Black speedrunning community. A few runs, like ones for Hades II<\/a>, Donkey Kong Country and Silent Hill 4, were teased when Back to Black 2026 was announced last year<\/a>. The full schedule<\/a> has plenty of other runs worth checking out, though, like a co-op run through Plants vs Zombies: Replanted<\/a> on February 5 or an Any% run of The Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery on February 6.<\/p>\n

Back to Black 2026 will be live on Games Done Quick’s Twitch<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> channels from Thursday, February 5 through Sunday February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot on the heels of AGDQ in January, Games Done Quick is hosting its second speedrunning event of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135846,135847,61,60,135848,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-280891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-back-to-black","9":"tag-black-history-month","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-speedrunning","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}