http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/guinness http://kotaku.com/tag/guinness 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] More »
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If anyone wonders what a gathering of 800 people playing portable game consoles look like, it looks like this. Because that's exactly what happened this weekend in Odawara City in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. More »
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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. More »
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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's provisionally certified the game as the all-time F-bomb champion among video games. More »
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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? More »
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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. More »
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One year older, and about two dozen or so titles fewer, Pac-Man still retains the "most recognizable" title among video game characters in the United States, according to the upcoming edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. More »
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Almost exactly a year ago, 381 Australian kids set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous Nintendo DS playing. More »
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I'm not entirely sure what I think of this but do find it telling with respect to the impact of Video Gaming on our society that Guinness (of the world's longest fingernails fame) is attempting to record the World's largest gathering of game characters. I was surprised to see that instead of the obvious location (Tokyo) that this will instead be attempted in London. More »
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We told you about the new Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 a few months back, but now the book has its own site that provides the opportunity to flip through some of the content (straight passed the horrid cover). Granted, it's been about 18 years at least since I've paged through a Guinness book, but it's far from what I remember (lots of tables of stats with only a few pictures). Now the layout resembles a magazine more than anything—which may be a cover for meaningful content as much as it is eye-appealing. More »
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The Black DS Lite that we'll be giving away to the grand prize winner of our string of DS Lite Give-Away contests is now in our grubby, greedy little hands, just waiting to be mailed off to some lucky gamer! More »
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