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Check out this selection of awesome gaming achievements, featuring the highest scores, biggest tournaments, largest cash prizes and most successful games ever. You can also find out about the latest gaming news and records on the GWR Gamer's Podcast.

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Meet the gamers who have set records over the years

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Most followed female gamer on Twitch

Longest single game of Football Manager

Longest Journey in Minecraft - Kurt J Mac

Stampy Cat's fastest time to make 10 cakes in Minecraft

Longest FIFA videogame marathon

The gamer who plays Fortnite with his mouth and smashes records

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Largest collection of videogames Antonio Monteiro

This gamer has the world’s largest videogame collection with more than 20,000

Four records set at first ever Fortnite World Cup

A timeline of Game Boy's record-breaking history as iconic console celebrates 30 years

The records held by Gamer's Edition 2020 cover characters - including Fortnite, Spider-Man and Pikachu

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How speedrunning could earn you a Guinness World Records title on your favourite videogame

The day that Mario came to Guinness World Records HQ

Photos of record-breaking gamers

Largest playable Game and Watch device

The largest playable Game & Watch device was constructed by Thomas Tilley (Australia). The device measures 1.93 m wide, 1.16 m high and 0.14 m deep and was constructed in Port Elliot, South Australia, with work beginning in May 2017 and ending in October 2017. The device was showcased at the Maker Faire in Adelaide, Australia on 5 November 2017. The Game & Watch runs the game Octopus, which was known as Mysteries of the Sea and Mysteries of the Deep in the UK. The objective of the game was to retrieve treasure from a sunken ship while avoiding being touched by the octopus

Most subscribers for a dedicated virtual reality (VR) videogames channel on YouTube

Nathaniel "Nathie" de Jong (NLD) takes his YouTube subscribers with him as he delves into the latest virtual reality (VR) games. As of 20 March 2018, he had 345,389 subscribers, the most of any VR-dedicated YouTube channel. His channel covers games from all three of the main VR headsets currently available – the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. The nearest VR-dedicated YouTube channel is RowdyGuy who had 79,874 subscribers as of the same date

Highest Xbox Live Gamerscore

A GamerScore is based on the number of Achievements that a player has completed in specific titles (mostly on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, but also some PC and mobile titles). According to TrueAchievements, Raymond “Stallion83” Cox (USA) had racked up a GamerScore of 1,746,820 as of 26 February 2018, retaining a record that he has held for more than eight years. “Stallion83”’s highest haul of 3,300 was achieved on Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Longest single game of Football Manager

The longest single game of Football Manager was played for 221 in-game years as of 22 November 2017, and was achieved by Michał Leniec (Poland) on Football Manager 2016 (Sports Interactive). Real-life Lech Poznań fan Michał had managed his favourite club throughout the entire game but had also taken 35 different international roles, always simultaneously to his domestic career at Lech. His in-game manager was technically 258 years old! He had played 14,381 matches, winning 10,997 of them and losing just 1,720 – a win percentage of 76%

Fastest time to ride a Donkey in Red Dead Redemption

The fastest time to ride from the Dixon Crossing bridge to Gaptooth Ridge on the Donkey in Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego, 2010) is 11 minutes 7 seconds, and was achieved by Dan White (UK) in London, UK, on 21 September 2017

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Largest collection of Final Fantasy memorabilia

The largest collection of Final Fantasy memorabilia consists of 3,782 items, achieved by Tai-Ting Tseng (Chinese Taipei) in San Jose, California, USA, as verified on 22 July 2017