Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed II has brought home a Guinness World Record. The hit game was the cover story for 127 magazines in 32 different countries in the past year, a record verified by the Guinness organization. Ubisoft’s own Alain Corre had this to say:

“Assassin’s Creed is one of our most well-loved brands. The worldwide interest for the brand, coupled with the energy and creativity of our press team made for a winning combination and I am proud of receiving this Guinness World Record.”

That’s a lot of magazine covers. I’d love to see a wall covered with every single one of them!

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Announced at E3 this week, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto was among many new entries into the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamers Edition. Shiggy was credited as being behind the world’s best selling video game of all time. With 45.7 million (and counting!) copies distributed across the globe, Wii Sports now holds that prestigious title.

Considering that number exceeds even the total number of GameCube and original Xbox consoles sold worldwide, do you think it will be dethroned anytime soon?

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® ANNOUNCES AWARDS AT E3 EXPO^TM CONVENTION

Nintendo, Activision, Red Octane, Bethesda, Blizzard & Microsoft make their way into the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamers Edition

LOS ANGELES-June 5th, 2009- On the heels of February’s launch of the annual Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition, representatives were on hand at the E3 Expo this week to honor gaming publishers with brand new records.

Guinness World Record recipients included Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Wii Sports, who received the record for the Best Selling Video Game with sales of 45.7 million to date.

Major Nelson and Mark Whitten from XBOX LIVE received the award for the Most Popular Online Console Gaming Service during Monday night’s Microsoft party. Xbox Live serves 20 million active subscribers to date, representing 67% of the total install base as of May 2009.

Blizzard Entertainment’s Mike Morhaime and Paul Sams accepted the records for World of Warcraft for the Most Popular MMORPG with a total of 11.6 million subscribers and Starcraft for being the Best Selling Strategy Game for a PC, selling 9.5 million copies worldwide.

Bethesda Softworks’ Lead Designer Todd Howard was awarded with the record for the Fastest-selling Multi Platform RPG after Fallout 3 sold over 4.7 million copies in its first week on sale from October 28th to November 4th 2008.

The entire Infinity Ward team were officially presented with the record for the Most Played Online Video Game as Call of Duty 4 has an excess of 15 million minutes played daily and the up and coming US band The Dares performed the First concert to Take Place Simultaneously in the Real and Virtual Worlds in SOE’s new massively multiplayer game Free Realms

In addition Charles and Kai Huang of Red Octane received the accolade for the Best-selling Rhythm Game Series for Guitar Hero’s sales of in excess of 25 million copies.

An honorable mention goes out to Steve Wiebe who unsuccessfully tried to win back his Donkey Kong crown from Billy Mitchell. Guinness World Records and Twin Galaxies were on hand to witness the potential new record. Wiebe’s final score of 989, 400 points fell short of the 1,050,200 score achieved by Mitchell in 2007.

All of the publishers validated at this year’s show will make their mark on history and will be featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamers Edition which will launch early next year. The book itself contains a comprehensive guide to gaming and will feature the latest gaming records, the history behind gaming, and interviews with key figures in the industry.

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This year’s Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition includes a list of “the top 50 titles ranked on their initial impact and lasting legacy.” Topping the list is the SNES classic Super Mario Kart. The press release is a bit confusing, though:

As the best-selling racing game on the N64 (more than 9 million units sold), Super Mario Kart is also the best-selling racer on the SNES (8 million units), the GameCube (nearly 7 million units) and the DS (10 million units).

They do know that those aren’t all the same game, right? Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World Records, had this to say about the selection process for the list:

We knew this would be a complex task so we invited a crack team of industry experts to form a judging panel – and the result is a “top 50? list of games ranked both on their importance and on how fun they are to play.

Other games for Nintendo systems in the top 10 include Tetris (you just know it’s the Game Boy version), Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Street Fighter II, and Goldeneye. Check past the break for the complete list.

1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye
11. Super Mario 64
12. Tomb Raider
13. Metal Gear Solid
14. Call of Duty 4
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
16. GTA San Andreas
17. Super Mario Bros
18. Zelda: A Link to the Past
19. Gran Turismo
20. Final Fantasy VII
21. Pro Evolution Soccer 4
22. The Orange Box
23. Lego Star Wars Complete Saga
24. Tekken 2
25. Wii Sports
26. Pokemon Red/Blue
27. Guitar Hero
28. Project Gotham Racing 4
29. Super Mario Galaxy
30. Resident Evil
31. Ico
32. Chrono Trigger
33. Gunstar Heroes
34. Soul Calibur
35. Advance Wars
36. Ridge Racer
37. Super Metroid
38. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
39. GTA Vice City
40. BioShock
41. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
42. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
43. God of War
44. Sega Rally Championship
45. Starfox 64
46. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
47. WarioWare Inc
48. Saturn Bomberman
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Outrun 

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Near London? I just got a Facebook message from Joe Lee, who happens to be organizing an event that you may want to be a part of. Not this but next Saturday the 25th, at the London Games Festival, DS owners are invited to bring their dual screens and join together to break Nintendo Australia’s record of 381 people playing a DS at the same place at the same time. DS:London is hoping to shatter the record with anywhere from 400-500 people.

Even better, it’ll be a Guinness World Record charity event, meaning any proceeds from the event or activities surround it will go to the Children in Need charity. Sound exciting? Check out the Facebook event, register at the site below, and head over to The Rocket Centre at London Metropolitan University on the 25th from 4pm-5pm. I expect pictures in my inbox when I get home that day, got it?

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