GDQ’s all-women and femmes winter speedrunning event returns March 9-16
January 16, 2025 – Games Done Quick (GDQ), the organization behind popular speedrunning marathons for charity, announced the schedule for the upcoming all-women and femmes winter event Frost Fatales. Frost Fatales, which runs from March 9-16, will feature impressive speedrunners racing through video games in support of the National Women’s Law Center.
Check out the full schedule here.
Frost Fatales (and its summer sister event Flame Falates) is part of GDQ’s Frame Fatales, a community that highlights speedrunners and community members who identify as female or femme while raising funds for a good cause. Frost Fatales 2025 benefits the National Women’s Law Center, a non-profit that advocates for women’s and LGBTQ rights through litigation, policy, and culture change initiatives.
This year’s huge gamut includes contemporary and retro titles alike, such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Cuphead, Devil May Cry, and House Flipper 2. Viewers can also expect the return of Games Done Quick mainstays like Celeste and popular franchises like Resident Evil, The Legend of Zelda, and Mega Man. Additionally, to celebrate MAR10 Day on March 10, there will be an exciting line-up of Super Mario games, including Super Mario Kart, Princess Peach: Showtime!, and Super Mario Maker. Here are some more highlights:
- Celeste Any% One-Handed as the closing run
- Sonic X Shadow Generations as a bonus game
- A “girl squad” 3-way race of Final Fantasy X-2 using all female characters
Frost Fatales will be livestreamed throughout the event, and fans can catch the action and donate directly by tuning into Games Done Quick’s official Twitch channel. All proceeds will go to the National Women’s Law Center.
Frame Fatales events have raised over $1 million for charity since 2019, and Games Done Quick has raised over $54 million for charity across its multiple events. Last weekend, the organization raised over $2.5 million during Awesome Games Done Quick for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Last year’s Frost Fatales raised over $155,000 for the National Women’s Law Center, and Summer Games Done Quick raised over $2.5 million for Doctors Without Borders. Next month, GDQ will be holding its all-Black speedrunning marathon, Back to Black, held online from February 6-9 to benefit racial justice nonprofit Race Forward.
For more information, please visit gamesdonequick.com.
About Games Done Quick
Games Done Quick is an organizer of video game speedrunning marathons. These events feature high-level gameplay by speedrunners raising money for charity. Games Done Quick has teamed up with several charities in its 15-year history, including Prevent Cancer Foundation and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). To date, Games Done Quick has raised more than $54 million for charity.
About the National Women’s Law Center
The National Women’s Law Center fights for gender justice—in the courts, in public policy, and in our society—working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us—especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families. For more than 50 years, we have been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women.