{"id":97872,"date":"2016-07-06T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97872"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:31:56","slug":"windows-10-update-interrupts-charity-speedrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/97872-windows-10-update-interrupts-charity-speedrun","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 &#8220;update&#8221; interrupts charity speedrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent charity speedrun of Bioshock was seemingly interrupted by a Windows 10 update, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2016-07-05-live-speedrun-attempt-interrupted-by-windows-10-update\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speedrunner Blood_Thunder stumbled into the now infamous blue screen update as he approached a terminal in the game at around the 33 minute mark, to the surprise of audiences watching in the room and online&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It later transpired that the &#8220;update&#8217; was an elaborate prank with the in-game cutscene edited to make it appear as if the infamous update had started.<\/p>\n<p>Blood_Thunder was able to continue as normal and finish the entire game in a time of 51:54.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gamesdonequick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Games Done Quick<\/a><\/strong> is a series of video game speedruns and marathons for charity, taking place every January and July. You can watch the heart-stopping moment below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bioshock speedrun, Windows10% <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SGDQ2016?src=hash\">#SGDQ2016<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZqVskPY8a\">pic.twitter.com\/dZqVskPY8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wario64 (@Wario64) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wario64\/status\/750163499909730305\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Are Nvidia\u2019s new Pascal cards really as powerful as we think?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/95913-are-nvidias-new-pascal-cards-really-as-powerful-as-we-think.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Are Nvidia\u2019s new Pascal cards really as powerful as we think?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel Core i5 versus i7 processors \u2013 which is better for gaming?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96615-intel-core-i5-versus-i7-processors-which-is-better-for-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel Core i5 versus i7 processors \u2013 which is better for gaming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Man builds R760,000 computer to play Tetris\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97766-man-builds-r760000-computer-to-play-tetris.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Man builds R760,000 computer to play Tetris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent charity speedrun of Bioshock was seemingly interrupted by a Windows 10 update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,20154,7571,18741,435,13009],"class_list":["post-97872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-agdq","tag-charity","tag-prank","tag-update","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97874,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97872\/revisions\/97874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}