Barely four months after an Indian equity broker logged a world record by playing Grand Theft Auto IV for 40 hours and 20 minutes, a 19-year-old college kid in Tennessee has beaten it.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.