Xbox

Kinect Sets Guinness Record As ‘Fastest Selling Electronics’

Congratulations to Microsoft, who took what I thought was going to be a modest hit and making it a giant one. Now let’s get that next wave of games coming! [GuinnessWorldRecords.com]


February 17, 2011
In Real Life

Guinness Ranks The Best Video Game Characters Of All Time

Kotaku AU

The Guinness Book of World Records is starting to take a keen interest in video games – even released what I think is a pretty spiffing annual focusing on video games. Now they’ve released a fan voted top 50 video game characters of all time list. And you may be surprised at who made it in.


January 25, 2011
In Real Life

Over 800 Children Herded Together For Handheld Gaming

If anyone wonders what a gathering of 800 people playing the portable game consoles look like, it looks like this. Because that’s exactly what happened this week in Odawara City in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture.


December 19, 2010
News

World Record Claimed On Game Rescued From The Dump

A 27-year-old video gaming world record has fallen to a British man playing on an arcade cabinet he rescued from a garbage dump nearly 20 years ago.


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.


May 7, 2010
News

The Top 50 Video Game Franchises Of All Time, Voted By Gamers

The 2010 Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition features a list of the Top 50 video game series as voted by the gaming public. Which series came out on top between The Legend of Zelda, Call of Duty and Halo?


March 6, 2010
News

Twin Galaxies Founder Retires

Walter Day, a former oil industry executive so captivated by the video game craze that he founded an arcade that would later become the international sanctioning authority for record high scores, has retired from his creation, Twin Galaxies.


December 23, 2009
In Real Life

Pac-Man Still Beats Mario For Most-Famous Crown

One year older, and about two dozen or so titles fewer, Pac-Man still retains the “most recognisable” title among video game characters in the United States, according to the upcoming edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.


January 28, 2009
In Real Life

Glimpse at Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition 2009

With entries for professional gaming, top selling games in history, the history of hardware and Guitar Hero, the Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition looks to be a must have for fans of gaming.


October 25, 2008
Uncategorized

DS World Record Attempt In London Tomorrow

Almost exactly a year ago, 381 Australian kids set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous Nintendo DS playing.