You know that gaming has hit the big time if there is a Gamer’s Edition of the Guiness World Records 2009, and the book has already been released yesterday for $21.95 for all of you out there who can’t have enough trivia on video games as well as everything related to it. This self-proclaimed “video game bible” returns to the forefront with all new records, facts and trivia that ought to encourage the reading habit instead of staying glued to a screen all day long. We guess parents who are trying to find a way to get their Pokemon-enchanted kid to read text from paper apart from those words on a DS screen will find this worth a try.

Now in its second year of publishing, Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition is a unique companion volume to Guinness World Records – the world’s bestselling copyright book – dedicated solely to video games and gaming records. The book is a comprehensive guide to record-breaking video games on all consoles, and also offers a broad range of features ranging from the history of gaming to interviews with key figures in the industry, designed to appeal to gamers at every level. In this year’s book, readers will find everything from a special section on banned and controversial games (pinball machines were banned in the U.S. for 34 years) to the First Superhero Game of All-Time (Superman), the Longest Drum Marathon On Rock Band (26 hrs, 40 min) and much, much more. Other special sections in the book include War Games (Metal Gear, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor), Superhero Games (Batman, Spider-Man, Superman), Space Games (Star Trek, Wing Commander, Star Wars) as well as a feature on the development of healthy gaming.

We hope to see future editions roll out with no end in sight, after all, video gaming is all that we live for, right? Especially with the bleak economic outlook right now, it would be best for us to remain at home most of the time with a good video game to keep us company instead of spending money outside.

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