A game has already managed to earn a world record this year, but one thing that happens even less often is a gamer that manages to claim a world record. Still, GTA IV has so far enabled two of its players to enter the Guinness Book of Records. The feat that has propelled the two gamers in the world of the famous is t... |
21 October 2009
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One of the most acclaimed games of this year, Batman: Arkham Asylum, proves its worth in hard cash and sales figure. Eidos, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Rocksteady's third-person action adventure with stealth elements managed to rake up almost 2 million units sold in just 2 weeks after its August ... |
22 September 2009
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If you've ever wondered how many text messages one would be able to send in a month, here is a possible answer to that question: 217,000. At least this is the number of messages two men from central Pennsylvania managed to send in March in an attempt to set a new world record. All sounds good so far for Nick A... |
23 April 2009
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Video games have evolved a lot in the last few years, and have reached, as a lot of critics dare say, an art form, expressing a lot of things that usually can't be portrayed through conventional means like movies or TV shows. But let's not forget that, fundamentally, games are just a form of entertainment,... |
17 March 2009
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Cricket and Samsung Mobile have unveiled the largest working phone in the world on Wednesday, March 11 in Pioneer Court in downtown Chicago. The two leading companies came on display with a working replica of the Samsung Messager phone.The device unveiled by the two in Chicago is around 15 feet long, 13 feet high, an... |
13 March 2009
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This year's Olympic Games saw a number of world records go up in flames, including those for 100 and 200 meter sprints, both knocked down by Usain Bolt. This made Mark Denny, a researcher at Stanford University, wonder how much more humans could gain in speed over the years. He was curious especially about wheth... |
28 November 2008
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This weekend reports came in and they say that about ten people were the first to form a waiting line in front of Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue Store in New York City, as they're sitting and waiting for the iPhone 3G to become available. In what was probably not the smartest move a parent could make, the fi... |
7 July 2008
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The leading manufacturer of computer graphics, NVIDIA, is not satisfied with just offering the latest in computer graphics, it also plans to set a new world record by holding the world's "longest non-stop Lan party". This might sound childish to some, but most of NVIDIA's fans will probably agree with the S... |
23 June 2008
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Marilyn Manson has been challenged to a televised snake-bathing competition. It was revealed this week that the controversial rocker is desperate to enter the book of Guinness World Records - and surprisingly, it's neither in the "the world's most scary-looking human being ever" category, nor in the "most h... |
28 November 2007
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When it comes to overclocking PCs, not many people take things to the extreme, that is, if they do so in the first place. Overclocking is said by many to be a form of art, in which you create something that nobody else has. If you ask me, it's very similar to PC Modding, and also the two subjects at hand are clo... |
17 April 2007
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British mountain climber Rod Baber is planning to climb the Everest and establish the world record by making a mobile phone call from the summit. Mr. Baber is sponsored by the mobile phone manufacturer Motorola which has provided the phone that the mountain climber will use to make the call and send a text message fr... |
3 April 2007
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