Nintendo Won't Let Charity Speedrunning Event Use Its Games Without Permission, Because Of Course

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Japan’s largest speedrunning event, RTA, is set to kick off later this week on 9th August, and will see some of the speediest gamers in the biz ploughing through the likes of Cuphead, Nier: Automata and Skyrim, all in aid of Doctors Without Borders. We learnt a few months ago that Nintendo games would not be included in the lineup, and now the RTA group has explained why (thanks for the heads up, Eurogamer).

In a new post shared on the RTA website (and translated by Automaton), the event organisers explain that they were contacted by Nintendo back in June, informing them that “as a legal entity, they would have to ask for permission in advance” if they wanted to feature any Nintendo game in the event. What’s more, the Big N apparently stated that all previous instances of Nintendo games being streamed from the event are now considered “unauthorised use”.

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