Guinness World Records 2019: Gamer's Edition

by Guinness World Records

The Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2019 is the global authority on all things videogames. The 12th edition of the world's best-selling videogames annual is bursting with amazing records, remarkable feats and marvellous achievements by gamers just like you, who have been inspired by the games they love to play. Inside you'll be able to delve into your favourite games like never before from returning favourites such as FIFA, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Minecraft, Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, to all-new instant classics such as Monster World, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Automata and Cuphead. You'll be able to discover who the best FIFA 18 player in the world is, the size of the biggest monster in Monster World ( it's really, really big), which Overwatch player has healed more players than any other and find out which eSports pro won more than $2.4 million in 2017 alone! We'll also introduce you to some of the most amazing gamers on the planet. From Nathaniel Nathie de Jong, the world's most popular VR-dedicated YouTuber, to Ray Stallion83 Cox who has the world's highest Xbox Gamerscore. And that's not forgetting Joseph Garrett, Stampy Cat himself, who holds one of Minecraft's strangest records ever let's just say cake is involved... Stampy Cat has also provided a special guest intro that you'll only find in Gamer's Edition 2019. Talk of Stampy Cat brings us speedily to our World Builders special chapter a well-constructed celebration of the games that let us build, including Minecraft, LEGO Worlds, Roblox, Terraria and more. You'll have the chance to don your hard hat, too, by taking part in our Reader Challenges that could put your name in lights in next year's Gamer's Edition. So, whether you want to know what the fastest time to complete Dark Souls is (while upside down), see the planet's biggest Game & Watch or find out which nation is the best at Pokmon, you've come to the right place!

Genres: Nonfiction

216 pages, Paperback

Published September 6, 2018

About the author

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. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the United States

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good and interesting book. Some awesome and different records, like the person with the most Final Fantasy merchandise and the man who has created the most songs about Mega Man. I also enjoyed the large variety of games.

There's definitely not as many world records as I would like and some random filler which is hit and miss. The parts with Stampy Cat are fine- if you are a fan of Stampy Cat, you will probably get more out of those sections.

The negative is that there are people who are cancelled or should be cancelled due to their misogynist behaviour like Ninja and Dr Disrespect. Also there's not enough Women, Non-binary and non white representation in the book.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has many cool gaming achievements. Some I didn’t care about but most of them were cool. You will like this book if your a gamer like me.

[Tim Roast · Rating 4 out of 5]

For gamers this is an absolutely fascinating book.

My one qualm with this book though is that in book form it is already out of date before it is published. For example the FIFA section (and if you don't play FIFA you may want to skip this paragraph as it might not make sense) focuses on FIFA 18 but the game FIFA 19 is basically around the corner (to be released in September 2018). This does have the advantage of allowing the book to include the highest-rated FIFA Ultimate Team card from FIFA 18 (which is a Team of the Year card so was unavaiable at game release and only released in January when the game had been out for a few months) but has the disadvantage of being about an old game as everyone will be playing FIFA 19 not FIFA 18. Similarly they haven't got the 2018 FIFA eWorld Cup information in here as that was completed in August, so their focus is on what happened in 2017 which is out of date because the 2018 final has happened.

Admittedly they acknowledge this: "Gaming records don't stop being broken just because our printing presses have started to whirr into motion" and then they give some record-setting achievements that were too late for the rest of the book (these date from March 2018 mainly so anything from March onwards may be missing from this book).

But that is my one qualm and they have tried to get away from this problem in the information presented by focusing on firsts, e.g. the first person to get to 1million gamerscore on XBox, or the year 2017 as a snapshot, e.g. top selling games of 2017, as these will never change.

But overall this is fascinating not just to read but to look at. It is also a book that would suit boys who play games but are reluctant readers, They would without doubt read this, at least for the games that they play which are easily searchable as included games are indexed, but also I'd expect the other pages would be well-flicked through and new games discovered. The book looks fantastic throughout with full colour pages and focuses not just on the games but on pro-gamers too, and their earnings from being the best at their games, all of which is really interesting. There are quirky things in here too, e.g. largest collection of Final Fantasy memorabilia. So plenty to catch your interest for a long time.

Despite it being a little out of date it is still great.

[Ryan]

Cool book fun to read.