New world endurance record set in video gaming
Yes, we've been to the moon, split the atom, sailed a balloon around the planet, so the next great feat of humanity had to be nothing less than playing a video game for 50 hours straight.
Six Dutch gamers in Rotterdam finished doing exactly that today, playing "Red Dead Redemption" on PlayStation 3 since Friday. The idea though was not to break a record so much as promote a new gadget, the TwistDock, which keeps game controllers continuously charged ... for those times you and a passel of friends want to play 50 hours straight.
Right now, TwistDock (twistdock.com) isn't available in the United States but should be around Christmas.
The six players -- Renzo Bos, Robbie van Eijkeren, Sven de Vries, Marcel van Wardenburg, and brothers Edward and Maykel Leest -- beat by almost 10 hours the old record set by one player last September and got their accomplishment sanctioned by a visiting judge from Guinness Book of World Records.
Better still, they each received the equivalent of almost $1,300 in prize money and six free TwistDocks. Surely, that's worth 50 hours of anyone's time, wouldn't you say?
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