The first group of players to successfully beat the final boss in the expansion pack World of WarCraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard, 2006) was Blood Legion (USA), who completed the challenge with a 10-player team on 2 February 2010 . Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011

StarChase is a tracking system developed by the US company of the same name. It is a small cannon designed to be mounted on a police car or handheld, which fires a golf ball-sized sticky projectile at a vehicle being pursued by law-enforcement personnel. The projectile contains a small GPS tracker, receiver and power supply and allows the police to track fugitives without having to directly follow their vehicle in a car chase.

The earliest Guinness World Record in a MMORPG was for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, which is an annual fund-raising event for Macmillan Cancer Support. On 28 September 2007, residents of Second Life joined in the coffee morning, which also saw the opening of the Second Life Macmillan cancer information centre within the virtual world.

The Chillstream range of controllers from Logitech have an integrated fan system that blows air through the vents in the pad to keep gamers’ hands cool. The Chillstream was designed for added comfort during extended gameplay sessions. It wasn’t well received, however, and some gamers derrided the controller as an ineffective gimmick. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.

The earliest hand-held video game was Mattel’s 1976 release Auto Race. The game had no moving parts, only electronic components.

The earliest hand-held video game console to use an optical disc was the PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation Portable, first launched in Japan in December 2004, plays its games from an optical disc specially developed by Sony for the console. The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a read only disc measuring 65 mm across and is held inside a plastic casing that slots into the top of the PSP. The disc is capable of holding up to 900 MB of data – 1.8GB for dual layer Continue reading →

Billy Mitchell (USA) scored the first “perfect” PAC-MAN game (3,333,360 points) on 3 July 1999, four more players have matched it. The top players now consider it a greater accomplishment to achieve the perfect game in the fastest time: Top 5 “Perfect” pac-man Rankings: Chris Ayra (USA) 3:42:04 16/2/2000 Rick Fothergill (Can) 3:58:42 31/7/1999 Tim Baldarramos (USA) 4:45:15 8/8/2004 Donald Hayes (USA) 5:24:46 21/7/2005 Billy Mitchell (USA) 5:30:00 3/7/1999 GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008.

Mark Hamill (USA) was the first actor to star in both a No.1-selling video game and a box office-topping Hollywood movie. In 1977, Hamill played the role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope. He also played the role in the two sequels Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, both of which were also No. 1 box office hits. In 1994, Hamill played the role of Colonel Christopher Blair in the No.1-selling PC game Wing Commander Continue reading →

The first karaoke videogame to exclusively feature hip-hop tracks was Get On Da Mic (Eidos, 2004), which was released in October 2004) Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011 Artists including Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Public Enemy and Kanye West were featured.

The Gömböc is a mathematical shape first theorised in 1996 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Péter Várkonyi and Gábor Domokos. It is a three-dimensional shape which is mono-monostatic, convex, and homogeneous i.e., with equal density throughout. It is characterized by its properties of balance in that it has two equilibria, one stable and one unstable.