PC

Rift Breaks World Record For Virtual Love

Love was in the air in the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift last week, where players set a Guinness World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period.


February 13, 2012
News

Call of Duty: Black Ops Sets World Record For Greatest Video Game Ending

Kotaku AU

We were always under the impression that The Guinness World Records only included listings of things that could be measured by quantity — most number of X, tallest Y, shortest Z, tiniest bean, etc. As it turns out, our impression is wrong and there is room for opinion in the book of World Records.


January 11, 2012
In Real Life

The 10 Most Bogus Entries In The Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book of World Records would show up on network TV. I’d see really big things! Really small things! Weird life forms out of 1950s monster comics! A guy who’d never cut his fingernails, like, ever!


February 26, 2011
PC

Needless To Say, This Bulletstorm Video Is NSFW

While no character in Bulletstorm has the name, the game’s script does seem overly concerned with the activities of someone named “Dick”. Here’s a compilation – by no means exhaustive – of two-dozen references to aforesaid Mr. Richard, within the span of a minute.


January 20, 2011
News

LittleBigPlanet Has Just Set Five World Records

Kotaku AU

LittleBigPlanet goes on sale in Australia today, but to celebrate the worldwide release of the game a group of participants have just helped the game break a total of five world records!


January 14, 2011
PlayStation

LittleBigPlanet 2 Gunning For World Records No Other Game Could Win

Guinness is handing out the video game world records left and right, and now it’s Sony’s turn. They’ve assembled a crack team of LittleBigPlanet 2 players to take down fabricated records next week, and you can watch.


January 13, 2011
In Real Life

This Video Game World Record Will Blow You Away

Yesterday Guinness awarded Jesse Moerkerk of Dutch gaming magazine N-Gamer a world record certificate for playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 for 18.52 minutes. Oh, and he did it while freefalling.


September 17, 2010
News

Guinness Gives Mafia II The F-Bomb Record

Yesterday, Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunters compiled 200 instances of Mafia II using a four-letter word that rhymes with “John Kruk”. Today, Guinness World Records says it has provisionally certified the game as the all-time F-bomb champion among video games.


October 29, 2009
News

Guinness Records Longest Tekken 6 Winning Streak

A new game releases and the Guinness Book of World Records is there, awarding the world record for longest winning streak on Tekken 6 to Mr. Eliot Smith-Walters, aka Shadow Force.


July 21, 2009
In Real Life

Pokemon Anime Makes It Into Guinness Record Book

Even before the latest Pocket Monsters movie opened in Japan, it was already a hit — so much so that the anime has earned a place in the Guinness Book.