E3 2009: PC developers get new Guinness world records

Posted Jun 8th 2009 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, MMO, RPG, RTS, Fallout 3, Starcraft II, World of Warcraft

On the last day of E3 2009, the Guinness World Records organization announced that a number of PC game developers and publishers were honored with brand new records for game sales. Above you can see Blizzard execs Mike Morhaime and Paul Sams accepting two awards; one for World of Warcraft becoming the most popular MMO with 11.6 million subscribers and the other for the original Starcraft becoming the world's most successul PC strategy game with 9.6 million copies sold.

Also honored during E3 was Bethesda Softworks for the fastest-selling multi-platform RPG. That would be for Fallout 3 which sold a total of 4.7 million copies in its first week on sale. Finally the US music group The Dares were honored as the first such group to hold a concert in both the real world and in the virtual world at the same time for a performace at E3 while also "performing" inside Sony Online's free-to-play MMO Free Realms.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

I would like to know where the journalistic integrity is for awarding The Dares the honor of being the "first such group to hold a concert in both the real world and in the virtual world at the same time" when musical bands have been performing in real life and virtual life simultaneously since (at least) 2006. Beyond the well publicized Second Life Community Conventions, which are in their third year of hosting such events, the SL Philly Music Fest was held in March, 2006.

It's disappointing to see that fact checking is as obsolete as the paperback version of Guinness Book of World Records has become in the 21st century.Posted at 9:37PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Elle Waters