Twin Galaxies, the arbiter of video game records for more than three decades, and the authority Guinness World Records uses to certify video game high scores, changed hands last fall. It's now owned by two arcades, one in Denver and the other in New Jersey. » 4/21/13 1:08pm 4/21/13 1:08pm

Guinness and video games have made quite a partnership over the years, to the point where many of their honours now sound more like adverts. (Yes, I'm deliberately writing in UK English here.) Here, however, is one that harkens back to Guinness' old-school marathon and milestone roots: Shattering the record for… » 2/02/13 2:00pm 2/02/13 2:00pm

Kirby's 20th birthday is this year, and Nintendo plans to observe it with a stunt at PAX Prime on Sept. 1. They're trying to get more than 304 people together in the same place to collectively blow chewing-gum bubbles, which would set a Guinness World Record. » 8/24/12 10:00pm 8/24/12 10:00pm

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] » 3/09/11 4:45pm 3/09/11 4:45pm

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. » 1/24/11 8:00am 1/24/11 8:00am

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. » 12/18/10 6:30pm 12/18/10 6:30pm

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. » 9/16/10 7:20pm 9/16/10 7:20pm

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? » 5/06/10 12:40pm 5/06/10 12:40pm

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. » 3/05/10 8:30pm 3/05/10 8:30pm

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. » 12/22/09 10:20pm 12/22/09 10:20pm

Almost exactly a year ago, 381 Australian kids set the Guinness World Record » 10/24/08 11:20am 10/24/08 11:20am