Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition is a Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

book dedicated to video games. The first edition was released in February 2008 in association with the video games world records' tracking organization Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks video game world records and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. It operates the Twin Galaxies website and publishes the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, with the Arcade Volume released on June...

. The second edition was released in 2009. The third edition was released in January 2010.
Unlike the post-annually published Guinness World Records book, the Gamer's Edition is annually published.

Content

Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition, 2008 is a book of 250 pages filled with gaming facts, trivia, and records spanning the birth of the video game to current next-generation consoles.

Chapters in this book include:

• The Year In Gaming: A look at the major events of the year broken down by months.
• 2007 Best Sellers Chart: A list of the top 20 selling Games of 2007, with records and descriptions.
• Hardware: A history of gaming hardware broken down by platform, and a list of best selling games by platform.
• Record Breaking Games: An overview of games divided by genre, with standout games featured in a spread.
• Top 100 Arcade Games: A list of the top 100 arcade games of all time, from classic games to modern. (This has been replaced in the 2009 edition by a "Top 50 Console Games" based on the favorite games of industry experts polled)
• High Scores: An alphabetical list of high scores for games of all genres and platforms.