Fast Food chain Chick-Fil-A has a kid’s meal promotion that has a hint of gamer appreciation.

The restaurants, which specialize in chicken-based products, have your usual selection of Kid’s Meals which come with some type of premium. For the current – or most recent, depending on your location – collaboration, Guinness World Records premiums are included in each Kid’s Meal.

On the last inner page, right under that largest soft drink is the world’s largest arcade machine…

For a humble, mustachioed Italian plumber, Mario has achieved many record-breaking feats since we first met him throwing barrels at an angry gorilla. That is, according to the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition. Dubbing him “The Godfather of Gaming”, Guinness has put together a list of the big M’s (no, that doesn’t stand for Mickey!) records over the last 20 years.

Today Guinness World Records released a list of the to 50 videogame series of all time. This list was comprised of over 13,000 votes by Guinness readers. Critics and developers were not asked to participate in the creation with this list. Needless to say there are some elements of this list that are sure to displease some gamers.

The first thing you see when you open the Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer’s Edition is a two-page display of praise for the 2008 book by various print and web publications. You may also notice that Gamertell is not included in that or the second montage in the back of the book.

The likely reason is that my review of the previous book was not entirely glowing and here’s why: The 2008 Gamer’s Edition of Guinness’ Book of World Records was not a journalistic chronicle of of world records as the title suggests. Neither is the 2009 edition…

Guinness World Records is trying to get in on the hype surrounding the highly anticipated releases of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (March 17, 2009) and Resident Evil 5 (March 13, 2009) by announcing each of these franchises’ biggest records.

All of this interesting yet useless information was taken straight from the Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition book…

Another snippet of Guinness World Records: Gamers Edition news has come in, which seems to be a plausible reason for us to start a dedicated site for Guinness related news. Anyways, game creator Sid Meier, the creator of the Sid Meier Civilization game franchise is the industry’s most awarded game developer, a record duly recognized in the Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008. This announcement was made by 2k Games in a statement on May 29, 2008. In case you are not aware, Meier happens to be the Director of Creative Development at 2K-owned Firaxis Games development studio…

Guinness is giving any gamer the opportunity to break into the record books by breaking arcade gaming records at the 10th Annual International Classic Video Game and Pinball Tournament scheduled from May 29, 2008, to June 1, 2008, at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in Laconia, NH.

Gamers who successfully tumble established arcade gaming records at the event will have…

Product: Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008Price: $19.95Pros: A good-looking book with plenty of pretty pictures, trivia and, oh yeah, some world records.Cons: This is more a trivia book with some fan gushing (and opinions) than a catalog of game-related world records. Some of the rankings are questionably subjective and it’s missing references to a few key consoles and Apple products.Overall: A fun coffee table book with plenty of game-related trivia but not the all-encompassing catalog of world records you’d expect from Guinness.Score: 7 out of 10

Bragging rights. Guinness’ published world records are the ultimate catalog of bragging rights. Sure, you usually think of wacky stunts, impossibly long fingernails, really fat dudes and that one weird episode of Happy Days. Get down to it and the Guinness book of world records is all about bragging rights no matter the craziness being recorded.

Sure, this is an extremely interesting and entertaining read, but I’m not completely convinced the 2008 Gamer’s Edition of the Guinness World Records book does proper justice to the game industry or to world records…

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