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Man Plays Grand Theft Auto For 40 Hours Straight

1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | What did you do between September 4 and September 6? Twenty-six year-old private equity broker Chirantan Patnaik played Grand Theft Auto IV — for 40 hours and 20 minutes straight. More »
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Aussie Man Sets New Galaga World Record

1:00PM David Wildgoose | A man from country New South Wales broke the world record high score on Galaga over the weekend. More »
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Arkham Asylum Sets World Record For Being Good

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Further establishing the Guinness World Records as an excellent marketing tool, Guinness has bestowed upon Batman: Arkham Asylum the record of the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’. More »
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Playing Larger Than Larger-than-Life Gears Of War 2

3:30AM Owen Good | Every year some yoyo goes and builds the world’s largest TV, but it’s not every year some yoyo gets to play Gears of War 2 Halo 3 on it. More »
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Steve Wiebe Gets A Donkey Kong World Record

8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Steve Wiebe will be taking a crack at Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong world record during this year’s E3. To help him warm up, then, he just set a new Donkey Kong Jnr. world mark. More »
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Malaysian Kids Set New LAN Party World Record

2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Last year, 203 attendees at Nvidia’s Nvision ‘08 set an official Guinness world record for the world’s longest LAN party, clocking up 36 hours of non-stop gaming. That record has now been broken. More »
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British Kid Sets Street Fighter World Record

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Britain’s Zak Bennett entered the record books last week, setting a Guinness World Records… record for most consecutive wins in Street Fighter IV. And it sounds like it took him all day to do it. More »
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Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes

3:40AM Brian Crecente | Danny Johnson, Wednesday, set a new world record in Guitar Hero III, not only toppling the previous record set last August in Minnesota, but also landing a story in the New York Times. More »
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Glimpse at Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition 2009

2:00AM Brian Crecente | 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. More »
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Asteroids High Score Unbroken For 25 Years

7:20AM Stuart Houghton | It was 25 years ago today, Scott Safran taught the world to play… Asteroids. On this day in 1983, 15-year-old Scott Safran began playing Asteroids at an arcade in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. More »