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Digital Trends - Most Recent News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Grand Theft Auto IV racked up the units and bucks as soon as it went on sale on April 29th, but it made its creators very happy when it was announced yesterday that the video game, that's barely in the stores, had broken two world records. Guinness World Records announced that the game had qualified for records as Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment...
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Total Video Games (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEGA's insect-battling-with-cards arcade game, Mushiking: King of Beetles, may not be a popular name in the West but it's popularity in Japan is insane, going so far as recently receiving an award from The Guinness Book of World Records.Having notched up 100,297 officially-sanctioned competitions between May 2003 and November 2007, Mushiking can lay claim to "The arcade game for which the most...
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Gizmodo UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
Games studio Rockstar must be feeling what it's like to pull off a big bank job and get away with it as gangster game, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) continues to smash records and rake in the cash. The highly recommended game, which went on sale just two weeks ago, has just sold over 1 million copies in the UK and, on an even bigger scale, GTA IV has blown away the Guinness Book Of Records 1-day...
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Popular Franchise Trumps All Other Entertainment Title Sales. London, UK, 13th of May - The famed Grand Theft Auto series has made headlines yet again! As newly-released sales figures show, Grand Theft Auto IV has crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first day of release, earning Guinness World Records™ for the Highest Grossing Video...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Grand Theft Auto IV is officially in the record books, beating out Halo 3 , Spider-Man 3, and Harry Potter for best first-day sales. Read More...
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On The Record (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Thanks to the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server -- Sun will be included in the newest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Sybase IQ analytics server running on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server has set a new Guinness World Record by powering the world's largest data warehouse. This accomplishment was achieved using Sybase IQ, BMMsoft server and the Sun Data Warehouse Reference...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
DUBLIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced that
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GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It looks like the Grand Theft Auto IV behemoth is continuing to trounce the competition. Amongst it's many other accolades, Guinness Book is now announcing that GTA IV is the Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours. This also puts GTA on the top of the pile as the most profitable entertainment release of all-time. Pretty...
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QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Well, you probably saw this coming if you read Take-Two's statement from earlier , but at least now it's official. We're sending word that Grand Theft Auto 4 ( Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 ) has been recognized as a Guinness World Record holder for two categories: Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours, and Highest Revenue Generated by an Entertainment Product in 24 Hours. As a recap GTA 4 recorded...
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Yet Another Review Site - News RSS (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Popular Franchise Trumps All Other Entertainment Title Sales London, UK, 13th of May - The famed Grand Theft Auto series has made headlines yet again! As newly-released sales figures show, Grand Theft Auto IV has crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first day of release, earning Guinness World Records™ for the Highest Grossing Video Game in...
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DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Following up on their previous announcement, the Guinness World Records team announced that Grand Theft Auto IV has unsurprisingly crushed the competition by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its first day of release, earning the record-keeping committees Highest Grossing Video Game in 24 Hours and the Highest Revenue Generated by [...]
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i4U (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The famous Guinness World's Records: Gamers Edition announced today that Grand Theft Auto IV has officially broken the record for biggest entertainment release of all time. GTA IV set the record by selling 3.6 million units and earning $310 million in its...
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Digital Photography Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Our continuing-exploits now found us in Dublin, Ireland. Home to Kilmainham Gaol (Prison) which held many of the leaders of the Easter Uprising of 1916 and also home to Guinness beer. This was going to be an interesting place…
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VF Daily (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... triptych that goes on sale today. His response? “I think they're completely insane!” –Rebecca Guinness more: , , | | | | (free, easy registration required)PREVIOUS ENTRY HOME
