In Real Life

Breaking A World Record Seems Like A Fine Reason To Get A Virtual Marriage

Marriage, ladies and gentlemen. Marriage is a game mechanic, or at least it will be early next month when update 1.7 goes live for Trion Worlds’ MMO Rift. They’ll be celebrating the new feature on February 14 by attempting to establish the World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Where’s that Divorce Paper vendor again?


October 18, 2011
In Real Life

Man Named Knucklez Doubles Space Invaders World Record

On October 7, 2011, Flemington, New Jersey’s Richie Knucklez catapulted himself into the video game record books by racking up 110,510 points in the original 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders, more than doubling the previously held record. How did he do it? Owning his own arcade certainly didn’t hurt.


September 14, 2011
PC

AMD Sets A World Record With A 8.429GHz Processor

And according to the pictures in Venturebeat’s write-up of AMD’s Guinness Success, they did it in a nightclub. Oonsk!


July 6, 2011
News

Real-Life Flipping Is Much More Colourful Than Video Game Flipping

Jumping enthusiast Robert Souris recently broke the world record for distance flipping, hurling himself nearly 6m through the air while dressed as a superhero of his own creation, all in the name of showing children how much more fun real jumping around is than virtual jumping around.


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.


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.


November 29, 2010
News

17 Year Old Aussie Attempts To Break FIFA World Record!

Kotaku AU

Michael Pluterflam is your normal 17-year old kid, he’s just finished his HSC exams, and now he’s attempting to smash the world record for time spent playing FIFA non-stop! The current record is 24 hours and next Wednesday, starting at 12pm midday, Michael intends to beat that record in an effort to raise money for the Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camps, which supports disabled children, and Football United, a football charity that works with underprivileged kids.


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.


May 24, 2008
Uncategorized

Guitar Hero Expert Beats Dragonforce Record Score

What’s your high score on Guitar Hero III‘s sore-finger finale “Through The Fire And The Flames?” At a 24-hour Guitar Hero marathon held by Blockbuster to benefit the nonprofit “Education is Freedom” children’s charity, Grapevine, TX native Daniel Johnson blew away the Guiness World Record for a single-song high score.

Playing on Expert, no less, on an Xbox 360. So how many points, now?