Guinness launches videogame record book
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Not a lot of people know that... If you think eight hours a day sat in front of a computer screen is tough, try staring at a game of Space Invaders for over 38 hours. Thatâs just one of the historical gaming nuggets revealed in an edition of the Guinness World Records thatâs devoted entirely to videogames.â¦
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A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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A project that uses Sony's PS3 to help understand the cause of diseases is recognised by Guinness World Records.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s alien-killer gaming thrill, &quot;Halo 3,&quot; has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
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Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming.
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SINGAPORE - A Singaporean man broke the world record for stuffing the most hamburgers into his mouth at one time as part of a weekend competition to break 10 obscure Guinness World Records, press reports said Monday.
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US television host Regis Philbin will break the world record for spending the most hours on television on Friday.
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New games and consoles helped drive US video game sales to a record last year, figures show.
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The final Harry Potter book will have a record breaking, back breaking first printing of 12 million copies, Scholastic, Inc., announced Wednesday.
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The Guinness Book of Records officially recognises the speed record set by Nasa's X-43A hypersonic aircraft.
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Video game Halo 3 earns more than Â£85m (Â£170m) in sales in its first 24 hours on release.
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Video game sales soared to a record &#36;18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on pause as players await a new generation of consoles in 2005 and 2006, a new study showed on Wednesday.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.(7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) sold 500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of sales in US stores for the new handheld featuring two screens
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Flash who? Seagate late last week set what it claimed is the world record for the highest recording density achieved using a hard disk platter. The magic number: 421Gb per square inch. Crucially, Seagate said, the test used perpendicular recording heads and disc media based on produuction technology, so products based on the technology may not be far off.â¦
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Microsoft Corp.'s alien-killer gaming thrill, "Halo 3," has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.