Long story short: Nico's just pwned Potter, Parker, and Master Chief in one fell swoop. We're letting the readers know that Grand Theft Auto 4 has just earned a place in the Guinness World Records, on account of its massive sales on the first day of its launch. Details regarding this matter are available in the full article.

Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 4 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) took around US$ 100 million to make and is one of the most anticipated video games in recent memory. This is why Guinness World Records is keeping an eye on it when it hits the shelves tomorrow. See GTA's previous Guinness records over at the full article.

Do you like games so much that you like dressing up as your favorite game characters? Well, the people over at UK did that and so much more.

Apparently, a lot of cosplayers gathered and tried to set a Guinness World Record. If you're curious to know how well they fared, then click on the "read more" link.

It's already impressive for someone to get a Guinness World Record, but it's even more impressive to beat one's own Guinness record. And that's what Chris Chike did with his own record, as he scored even higher in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, PC, and PS2) in the recent Play N Trade National Guitar Hero Tournament. Read more in the full article!

Want to know who has the fastest fingers in the West, er... on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, PC, and PS2)?
Guinness World Records and Twin Galaxies held a GHIII contest to know who can rock DragonForce's Through the Fire and Flames on expert mode. If that isn't insane enough, the winner finished the song sporting a 97 percent completion rate and a new world record. More info and a video after the jump!

Here's a quick update for those keeping their eye peeled for any updates regarding the gamer's edition of the Guinness World Records. The book's official site is announcing a worldwide Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock marathon that's being prepped for this February, in celebration of the book's 2008 Edition launch. Wondering how to join up? Read on and find out!

Not every gamer loves books, but we reckon just about anyone who can read and hold a control pad would like to scan through this one, at the very least. The Guinness Book of Records will officially unveil the Videogame Edition of the famous annual book to cater to every game trivia nut out there.

The book will launch at the London Book Fair on April 16 to 18 and is officially titled "The Guinness World Records - Videogame Edition 2008". The book will contain all the game information conceivable from record game scores, characters, game sales, record times and how much game industry insiders make in a year.

"The news that Guinness World Records has decided to produce a book devoted to games is great for both gamers and the industry. It's another boost for the profile of gaming, and I'm very much looking forward to getting started," says Games Industry editor Ellie Gibson.

Guinness has been available since 1955, offering exact and reliable information on almost every field of study known to man. In fact, the fields have grown so diverse that the Videogame Edition of Guinness is only the first of many field-specific books to come.

Game Politics put up a unique find that might help immortalize some of the most dedicated players of all time. According to their report, the Guinness Book of World Records will be putting up another videogame-related section with records for players who've picked up achievements for determination, high scores, and long life.

As you can see from the shot above, there are some new records being put up along with the quintessential high scores list that remains mostly the same from its previous incarnation 20 years back. Cody Miller's legendary speed run through Halo 2 on the Xbox is now listed, as well as a record for the guy who pulled off a three-hour speed run through the PS2's GTA: Vice City.

The records also hold some noteworthy people who've managed to get high scores in multiple games, such as Greg Sakundiak's records for Dragon's Lair, Tag Team Wrestling, and Twin Cobra, and Doris Self, our dearly departed mistress of all things Q*bert who got her place in Guinness for being the oldest competitive gamer to date.

Hopefully, they'll include some new categories next year, including "Person with the highest gamerscore ever" and "Most annoying leetspeak phrase used in online games." We'll be betting on "STFU Noob," for that last entry.

Take THAT, Los Angeles! Over at the sunny land of Mexico, the local Xbox 360 team decided to try to add their names in the Guinness Book of World Records by making the world's hugest, biggest, most ginormous, and oversized pinata - in the form of Viva Pinata's Horstachio, of course.

The pinata was built at Six Flags in Mexico, and the world's tallest pinata horse ended up being 45 feet tall (a full 10 feet taller than LA's version), weighing 4,400 pounds. In the mean time, the Guinness folks are yet to declare, that yes, this does take the cake for being the world's biggest multi-colored horse effigy. The makers are pretty confident about their feat though, and are sure that the announcement will come soon enough

It is unknown whether this giant pinata is actually filled with candy. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists have been suggesting that this may actually be a Trojan Horstachio which Microsoft will send over to Sony. They are also speculating that another (not as huge) Macaraccoon is also under construction and is due to be sent to the gates of the Nintendo headquarters.

And yeah, we were kidding about the whole Trojan Horstachio thing.

Thanks to badam for the tip!

Arcade gaming legend Doris Self, the world’s oldest video game competitor/junkie/advocate, has passed on due to injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Plantation, Florida on October 3, 2006 .

Not familiar with who Ma’am Self is? Well, according to the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, Doris was the oldest person to actively pursue video game world records, competing against gamers one-quarter her age. In fact she still remained as Twin Galaxies’ record holder for oldest champion until 2003, when John Lawton of Weirs Beach, NH, age 72, broke the world record on the classic Depth Charge.

So before you get all snooty and go "pfft who cares," much the same way some people have brushed aside this other gaming senior's achievements, take note that Doris' records were relevant since the early 80s until 2003. Can you say the same about your Gamerscore?

She first gained fame in 1983 when she achieved a world record score of 1,112,300 points on the classic arcade game Q*Bert during Twin Galaxies' 1983 Video Game Masters Tournament, an event that was conducted for the Guinness Book of World Records.

In an interview at Boston.com News around early June last year, Doris said that during her time in the arcades back in the early 80’s, the gamers there welcomed her. She even says that it “got to the point where they'd trick kids to play against me."

Ah, the magic of the old arcade.

To Doris, gaming was therapy. Ann Ennis, Doris' sister, says that Doris would play Q*Bert five nights a week. The gaming would regularly happen around 1-3 a.m. as an alternative to taking pills for sleeping. Ann says that on the last night of Doris’ life, it was no different. Ann Ennis heard Doris playing for hours, practicing into the night. A gamer until the end.

We wish you well Doris, may you find peace in the big penny-arcade up in the sky.