Highlight Reel: June 27, 2014

Today's gaming highlights: New world record speedruns, defusing bombs right under terrorist noses, and more!

Speedruns

Yesterday we posted about this Super Mario Bros speedrun. It tops the old world record time by about a second with help from a Bullet Bill glitch to avoid having Mario walk to the castle at the end of the level.

Super Mario Bros. Beaten In Under Five Minutes, A New World Record

You've gotta watch this impressive Super Mario Bros. playthrough by speedrunner…

Battlefield 4

Geefy (via Atlas) posted this video of a perfect flanking maneuver, where he sneaks around behind the enemy team and wipes every soldier in sight.

 Are you tired of getting your armored vehicles stuck on level geometry? Well just dislodge them with this one weird trick:

Counter Strike: GO

 PurpleEnzo uploaded a couple of "ninja defuses" he did, sneaking around enemy players. The best is the second one, where he's the last remaining player on the Counter-Terrorist team runs right through the group of enemies. They're so confused that they don't even realize he's an enemy until after he's defused the bomb.

Mario Kart 8

It sucks when you get hit with two shells at the same time. This, however, is much worse:

 

Source: Kotaku

Mario Kart 8 surpasses 2 million units sold worldwide

Sales of Mario Kart 8, the latest entry in Nintendo's kart racing franchise, hit about 2 million copies worldwide since its release a month ago, Nintendo of America confirmed with Polygon today.

The number, which Nintendo officials said it sold through to consumers, was revealed during the company's 74th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in Japan early today.

The title became the fastest selling Wii U game in the console's history when it sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide since its release May 29 in Japan and May 30 in North America and Europe, Nintendo revealed in early June.

Mario Kart 8 also garnered the "strongest review scores in franchise history," according to the company. While Mario Kart 8's performance is strong, it still may be one of the worst-selling titles in the franchise's history, which you can read more about in our analysis piece on the Mario Kart series.

To learn about Mario Kart 8 and its gameplay, be sure to check out our review.

Source: Polygon