On 27 March 2011, after almost 50 hours of gaming action, the StickTwiddlers and Twitch Gaming community groups finished their world record marathon gaming attempts with 8 world records broken. They also raised a total of £554.92 (±R6,110), including Gift Aid, for the gaming charity GamesAid on their Just Giving page. GamesAid is a new UK video games industry based charity. It distributes funds to a diverse range of charities. The aim is to give something back on behalf of the industry.
The records the StickTwiddlers team broke are:
• Longest time spent playing an FPS game. (Halo Reach)
• Longest time spent playing driving game. (NFS: Hot Pursuit)
• Longest time spent playing GTAIV.
• Longest time spent at highest wanted level on GTA IV
Michael Williams added an additional 10 hours to the current world record for ‘longest time spent playing a driving game’ and Ben Cordell managed to add another 2 hours on top of the current GTA IV marathon record as well as doubling the longest time spent at highest wanted level. He even managed to top his own record towards the end of his marathon run and added an extra 10 minutes.
Philip Murphy had to drop out of the record attempt at about the 22 hour mark due to medical reasons.
The four records broken by Twitch Gaming community members are:
• Longest time spent playing an RTS – Broken on Starcraft 2 and Dawn of War 2 by Jonny ‘Regneva’ Young and Conor ‘Goku’ Fox.
• Fastest completion time of Dawn of War 2 Co-op campaign (including Chaos Rising campaign) – Broken by Conor ‘Goku’ Fox and Chris ‘Soul’ Mallarkey.
• Fastest time to prestige on Black Ops – Done in 13hrs 42mins by Scott ‘Nadz’ Blair.
• Most consecutive Starcraft 2 live wins – Completed by David ‘GimbleB’ Barrett at 82 wins.
On 19 March 2011, four editors from Game Informer set out to break the ‘longest fighting game marathon’ record. Jeff Cork, Ben Reeves, Dan Ryckert and Tim Turi took up their controllers and played 474 matches of Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo Wii for exactly 30 hours.
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