Our mates over at ready-up.net have always been pretty fanatical about gaming. It’s pretty much all they ever talk about which, frankly, is fine by us. So we weren’t entirely surprised when we heard that they were going to attempt to get themselves in the Guinness book of records for a gaming challange… Seemed about right… what was surprising however, is how they intended to do it. A 24-hour gaming marathon, playing Burnout Paradise.

Now, let’s break this down a little bit.
Gaming… right, we like gaming… that’s fine.
Gaming for 24 hours straight? Well… wow that’s going to be kinda difficult, right?

I mean sure, you can lose track of time playing certain games… I’ve played Civilization for around 10 hours without realising that the sun’s beginning to come up, I’m sure we’ve all been there… but 24 hours is a LONG time to be playing a game. All they get is toilet and brief food breaks… that’s it.

Ok fine, I’ll buy that if the game’s particularly engaging… but a racing game?!
24 hours driving? I imagine they could see the road in their peripheral vision for about a week afterwards!

Nevertheless, six of the Ready-Up team took up the challenge, and joined by members of the community over X-Box live, they raced the day, and night, and day away. They are now proud holders of the racing game marathon world record.

It’s not all fun and games though (well, it is obviously, but there’s a serious side too) the event helped to raise money for ‘GamesAid‘ – a new charity aimed at using the gaming industry to help young people. Which is all pretty admirable really.

So, 24 cheers for the Ready-Up team!
http://ready-up.net/worldrecord