The Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2026 is the ultimate book for everyone into gaming! Fascinating facts, trivia on all your favourite games and characters.

Discover the top 100 gaming characters of all time! Check out the Ultimate Vs Championships and see who would win this ultimate face off – Pikachu vs Purple, Freddy Fazbear vs Captain Flameheart – vote for who you think would win!

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DanTDM holds a record

Launched on 14 July 2012, “DanTDM” (formerly known as “TheDiamondMinecart”) by Daniel Middleton (UK) had 9,810,971,245 views as of 24 April 2017 making it the most viewed YouTube channel dedicated to a single video game. The channel focuses on Minecraft.

Video game marathons

The longest video games marathon playing on a Just Dance game is 138 hr 34 sec and was achieved by Carrie Swidecki (USA), who played Just Dance 2015 (Ubisoft, 2014), at Otto’s Video Games and More, in Bakersfield, California, USA, from 11 to 17 July 2015.

Super Mario’s super hard!

Wrestling the record away from his other fiendish creation, “Pit of Panga: P-Break”, “Pit of Panga: U-Break” by “PangaeaPanga” aka Alex Tan (USA) is the toughest level built in Super Mario Maker. As of 22 February 2018, this infuriating work of platforming art had been completed by rival players a mere 367 times from an incredible 4,805,934 attempts. That equates to a completion rate of just 0.007636% (or 0.00% on the game’s official website) – the lowest success score of any Super Mario Maker level that has been attempted at least 500,000 times.

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Come fly with me

The largest mechanical wings on a cosplay costume is 6.22 m (20.4 ft) and was achieved by Arianna Palumbo (Italy), in Santa Marinella, Italy, on 29 January 2022.

40hr Mario Kart

The longest video game marathon on Mario Kart (series) is 40 hr 00 min 00 sec, and was achieved by Ben Fick, Anthony Lehnertz and Hunter Nierman (all USA) in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, from 2 to 3 November 2018.

LEGO speedrun

The fastest time to assemble the starter pack characters in LEGO® Dimensions is 32 seconds, and was achieved by Leon Ip (UK), in Solihull, West Midlands, UK on 9 January 2016.

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Girl power

Most subscribers for a female games broadcaster on YouTube is a “true geek” who loves to “make people smile”, “iHasCupquake” – aka Tiffany Herrera from Los Angeles, USA – had 5,461,793 subscribers to her games channel as of 29 March 2017.

Major League Youngster

In 2005, “Lil Poison” aka Victor De Leon III (b. 6 May 1998, USA), aged six, signed an exclusive deal with the organizers of Major League Gaming (MLG) and became the youngest signed professional video gamer.

Legend of Zelda Collector

The largest collection of The Legend of Zelda memorabilia is 1,816 items and belongs to Anne Martha Harnes (Norway) as verified in Molde, Norway, on 14 July 2016.

VR cleaning

Created in the social gaming platform Roblox in July 2017, Cleaning Simulator challenges players to assume the role of a superstar janitor armed with only a mop and a spray bottle. On 20 July 2017, “videm” (USA) completed a solo run (without moon gravity enabled) in just 22 minutes 45.96 seconds, as verified by Speedrun

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