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The Guiness Book of World Records has been kind enough to allow us to sneak in and sift through the world records included in its 2008 edition- the video games domain. And boy, do we have a lot of games to talk about! I'll kick off the list with one of my favorite characters in gaming, Sonic, which now officially holds the record for the, well, "longest running comic on a video game character" (14 years in a row! way to go, bro!), for "the fasted video game character in the world" and for the "best selling game on any SEGA console".

But here is a more detailed list:

Tomb Raider: fastest selling Tomb Raider game: "TR Legend" (more than 2.5 million copies sold in the first five weeks of availability)highest rated Tomb Raider game: the first game in the series, launched in 1996 for the PlayStation 1, with an average rating of 91% from the gaming presshighest grossing video-game movie: Tomb Raider (USA 2001), with $274,703,340 reaped from cinemas worldwide. The second movie based on the game was less successful, with only 156,505,388the largest foe Lara had to defeat: the serpent next to King Arthur's tomb, in Tomb Raider LengendLara Croft: the most recognizable female character in the gaming world
Sonic:best selling game on any SEGA console: "Sonic the Hedgehog 2", released for SEGA Mega Drive in 1992. It sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, while the Sonic series as a whole sold more than 45 million copies.the "Sonic The Hedgehog" comics series is the longest running, having been published by Archie comics since July 1993best selling retro-game compilation: "Sonic Mega Collection", released in 2002 for the GameCube and in 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. It has sold over 4.3 million copies worldwidemost playable characters in any platform game: "Sonic Heroes" (2004, for GameCube, PC, Xbox and PS2) has 12 playable characters
"Myst": the least violent adventure game ever (the game has no time limit, no dialogue, no enemies and no way of dying- released for Apple Macintosh in 1993)
"LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy": most playable characters in an action adventure game (40 characters unique to the game, with other 46 available if a saved game from the original LEGO Star Wars game. More than a million combinations are possible when mixing body parts of the characters.
"Psychic Killer Taromaru": the rarest and most valuable console action adventure. It was released in 1996 for SEGA Saturn and only 7,500 copies were sold (exclusively in Japan). A single copy of the game can reach 100 pounds today.Most destructible action environment:  "Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction" (2005)- they definitely forgot Crysis in this one...Most popular Xbox Live demo: "BioShock". Within one month of availability, the demo has been downloaded more than 1 million times.Largest action-adventure environment: "Just Cause" (250,000 acres to explore- again, Crysis might be better...)The only action action-adventure to be banned in the UK: "Manhunt 2"
And now, a special dedication to Valve:
Counter Strike:the most successful game mod ever (unveiled on June 18, 1999, it went on to sell more than 9 million copies on Xbox and PC)most widely-played online shooter (it generates over 6 billion player minutes every month and averages at least 270,000 simultaneous players at one time)most action gamers playing on a single server (on November 24, 2004, at DreamHack Winter in Jonkoping, Sweden, a team from Microsoft and Unisys sustained 1,073 gamers playing CS on a single Unisys ES7000 server. The largest LAN party ever (also at DreamHack, but in 2006) with Counter Strike involved 9,184 participants on 8,521 machine).
And for Halo fans, with love from Microsoft:
best selling game on Xbox: "Halo 2" (over 9 million copies sold so far). Halo: Combat Evolved comes second, with "only" 5 million copies sold.fastest selling-preordered game: "Halo 3" (1.7 million preorders in the US alone)highest grossing game for a single day: "Halo 3" (more than $170 million worth of first-day sales in the US alone)most played game in a single day: "Halo 3" (over 1.4 million Xbox Live users have played Halo 3 in the first 24 hours since the launch of the game...but how about the recent downtime? Wasn't that supposed to be "the busiest day ever" on XBL?)
Super Mariobest selling game of all times (excluding bundles): "Super Mario Bros. 3" (17.2 million copies sold worldwide for Super Mario Bros. 3 launched in 1988).best selling video game series of all time: total sales for the "Super Mario" franchise have exceeded 155.4 million copies worldwide, including remakes. Seven of the top 20 best-selling console titles of all time are "Super Mario" games.best selling  video game of all time (including bundles): Super Mario Bros (released for the NES in 1985, it has sold more than 40.2 million copies worldwide, ten million more than the second best selling game- the GameBoy version of Tetris).most prolific video-game character: Mario, which has appeared in 116 distinct titles (not including remakes or re-releases). Mario's moustache was featured in 13 games in 2005 alone.Now, all I can say is...WOW!... Really, I'm speechless... I just can say anything... I'm out of words...I'm...