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GAMING
GAMING REVIEW
Most overall wins in Fall Guys
Mediatonic’s free-to-play “party royale” invites up to
60 players to outmanoeuvre the competition in a series of
obstacle races. More than 50 million players have joined in
the fun. “KawaiiNekoWaifu” (AUS) is currently top of the
charts, having racked up 28,978 victories as of 5 Dec 2022.
Longest speech at The Game Awards
Christopher Judge (USA) gave thanks for
an epic 7 min 59 sec upon receiving his Best
Performance award on 8 Dec 2022. Judge, who
was honoured for his work as Kratos in Sony’s
God of War Ragnarök (2022, see opposite),
accepted his award from actor Al Pacino.
Fastest completion of Amok Runner
“Weegee” (USA) raced through Gamedeus’s
indie adventure in 25 min 32 sec on 10 Jan 2023.
Interest in Amok Runner exploded when Twitch
streamer “MoistCr1TiKaL” (aka Charles White Jr,
USA) set up a $10,000 two-week speedrunning
challenge for the previously little-known game.
Fastest 16-star completion of
Super Mario 64 with a drum kit
Cesar “CZR” Aguirre (USA) has mapped the
buttons and analogue stick of a Nintendo 64
controller to his electric drum kit. So to run
foward and jump, for example, he plays a drum
roll on a rack tom, then hits the kick drum.
He beat Super Mario 64 (1996) with a 19-min
48-sec drum solo on 9 Dec 2022.
Most Role-Playing Game of the Year wins
for a franchise at the DICE Awards
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Square Enix,
2021) claimed the series’ 昀椀fth top prize at the
DICE Awards on 24 Feb 2022. Final Fantasy titles
have been nominated in this category an impressive
11 times since 1998.
The most Game of the Year awards for a
franchise is two, and has been achieved by three
titles: Call of Duty (Activision, in 2004 and 2008),
The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo, in 1999 and 2018)
and God of War (Sony, in 2006 and 2019).
First player to defeat every Elden Ring boss
without taking a hit
“GinoMachino” (CAN) achieved the unthinkable
on 25 Oct 2022, downing all 165 bosses in
Elden Ring (FromSoftware, 2022) without receiving
a single scratch in a gruelling 9-hr livestream.
GinoMachino spent two months planning out the
safest route through the world and left the training
boss until the end, pulverizing it in one hit. He has
also completed the game using only his bare 昀椀sts.
Highest-grossing opening weekend
for an animated 昀椀lm
Despite a lukewarm reception from 昀椀lm critics,
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (USA/JPN, 2023) pulled
in $375,579,730 (£302.2 m) at the global box o昀케ce
in its 昀椀rst weekend. This 昀椀gure, con昀椀rmed on
10 Apr, put it more than $17 m (£13.6 m)
ahead of Frozen II (USA/JPN, 2019).
Largest Sonic the Hedgehog
memorabilia collection
Barry Evans (USA) had amassed 3,050 items
relating to Sega’s spiky speedster as of 1 Mar
2022. He keeps his collection – which began
with a Sonic bubblegum container – in his
games room, which he has transformed into his
childhood amusement arcade, “Yesterdays”.
Most Racing Game of the Year wins
for a franchise at the DICE Awards
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The Xbox simcade series Forza has topped
the podium seven times at the
videogame industry’s Oscars. At the
25th ceremony on 24 Feb 2022,
Forza Horizon 5 became the latest
title in the franchise to speed o昀昀
with the prize. The 2019 spin-o昀昀
Forza Street is the only one of
the 13 Forza titles not to be
nominated in this category.
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SEE ELEPHANTS IN THE WILD
With their long trunks and huge ears, these gentle giants of Africa and Asia have always made
a big impression on us humans. The adult male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the
largest land‑based animal, typically weighing 4–7 tonnes (4.4–7.7 tons).