In Real Life

Tennessean Plays GTA For 40 Hours Straight, Pees Three Times

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.


October 21, 2009
In Real Life

Man Plays Grand Theft Auto For 40 Hours Straight

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.


August 31, 2009
News

Aussie Man Sets New Galaga World Record

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A man from country New South Wales broke the world record high score on Galaga over the weekend.


August 29, 2009
News

Arkham Asylum Sets World Record For Being Good

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’.


June 22, 2009
In Real Life

Playing Larger Than Larger-than-Life Gears Of War 2

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.


April 27, 2009
In Real Life

Steve Wiebe Gets A Donkey Kong World Record

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.


April 14, 2009
In Real Life

Malaysian Kids Set New LAN Party World Record

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.


February 24, 2009
In Real Life

British Kid Sets Street Fighter World Record

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.


February 6, 2009
In Real Life

Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes

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.


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.