Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2025

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This best-selling series - with over 5 million copies sold to date - celebrates the greatest achievements in videogaming by exploring the biggest-selling titles, the fastest speedrunners, the most prolific collectors, the highest-earning esports stars and the most critically acclaimed developers.. Aimed at generalist gamers and skewed towards younger readers, the GAMER'S EDITION offers up bite-sized nuggets of trivia, facts, stats and of course world records, covering the best-loved and most-played games, from arcade classics such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man via modern blockbusters like Legend of Zelda, Pokmon and Call of Duty, to the latest console and PC big-hitters - Fortnite, Minecraft, Hogwart's Legacy and Starfield. Plus, you'll get to meet every major gaming character: Mario, Sonic, Lara Croft, Link and many more. The book kicks off with a review of the last year of gaming, summarizing the biggest news stories and a rundown of the big winners at the major videogame awards and conventions. Gaming is now a ubiquitous part of modern life, with 97% of children and adolescents playing at least an hour a day. The GWR GAMER'S EDITION 2025 combines this passion for play with the rigour and accuracy of Guinness World Records... a partnership as successful as Ratchett & Clank, Mario & Luigi, Ryu & Ken or Sonic & Knuckles! It's time to level up!

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In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, the then managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right! Sir Hugh's idea became reality when Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records. The first edition was bound on August 27, 1955, and went to the top of the British bestseller lists by Christmas that year. Since then, Guinness World RecordsT has become a household name and the global leader in world records. No other enterprise collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data with the same investment in comprehensiveness and authenticity.