In celebration of the January 18th launch of LittleBigPlanet 2, we’ll be partnering with Guinness World Records next week to set five new records over a three-day period. Beginning on January 17th and going through January 19th, a small team of dedicated LBP fans will take over the PlayStation Lounge at the Sony Style store in New York City to set new gaming records and earn their place in history. If you’re in New York and would like to come check it out, feel free to drop by:

PlayStation Lounge at the Sony Style store
550 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022

The Guinness World Records to be set include:

1. Longest marathon playing LittleBigPlanet 2
2. Longest marathon playing a platform video game
3. Most video game genres played in one video game in 24 hours
4. Most user-generated video game levels played in 24 hours
5. Most user-generated video game levels played in a marathon

LittleBigPlanet 2 will also be recognized for the following records:

1. Most gaming genres in one video game
2. Most player-created levels in one video game

 
If you can’t make it down, no worries, we’ll be LIVE streaming our World Record Event online right here on the PlayStation.Blog. Stay tuned for our unprecedented schedule of LittleBigPlanet 2 goodness hosted by Veronica Belmont from Qore and our own Jeff Rubenstein. Check in and watch the live action, interviews from anyone and everyone who loves Sackboy, and behind-the-scenes access with Media Molecule, plus tons more. You can even help us decide on which games to play next or tweet in your questions to anyone at the event. Whether it’s watching our fans staying up playing LBP2 into the wee hours of the night, checking out the Subway lunch break, or enjoying the back and forth banter of our LIVE event, we promise a good time. Want more details? Click here.

This record setting event also commemorates the release of the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, the latest chronicle of video gaming history. LittleBigPlanet looms large in this year’s edition of the book with the game’s main character lovable, stitched-together main character, Sackboy, gracing the book’s cover and a bevy of facts and records cited within its pages. Known as the “Video Game Bible,” the fourth and latest edition of the popular series comes packed with 90% new or updated records and 750 never-before-seen amazing images appealing to everyone from hard-core gaming veterans to first time gamers and families. The Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition will be available on January 20th for $14.99.

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cool but as of right now i'm anti-new york.

Tagged so I don't forget!

^^

hahahhaha funny gif in your sig

Some records are extremely weird as it is, the game ones seem not to be of any exception. I don't really like Guiness Book of records, but kudos to LBP2 for scoring some records, even though they seem to be.. Kinda useless to me.

The awesome game related record I've seen was some 7 year old professional gamer, which was just plain weird lol.

Sooooo world records created for LBP / LBP2 to get some world records. Lame.

Yeah. Well. Wait for LBP3 to steal it.

Should be a nice even to folow for fans.

But 2 things

on Guiness recognized records....

Great.... i just invented a game, and i'm the only one who played it, I guess I should call guiness to have many records.

I lost all interest in Guiness records a while ago when they started having stupid stuff as records.... things that are not even world records, just best recorded.... that's also when they stopped giving out a prize for world records, in essence recognizing themselves the worthlessness of their titles...

on LBP2 recognized records:

Most player-created levels in one video game

I find that hard to believe... heck i'd say LBP1 has LBP2 beaten for now.... (without mentioning doom or ther PC games...)

isn't that 6 World Records?

6: Most World Records in one attempt