PLAYING THEIR CARDS RIGHT Social games giant PopCap has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest video games marathon playing a card game. Laura Rich from Cardiff (pictured here at the Sea Life London Aquarium) and Kathleen Henkel from New Jersey played the company’s Solitaire Blitz simultaneously for 30 hours.
30 whole hours. We can barely manage ten minutes before we get caught and told to get back to work.
OFF THE RECORD
BUNGIE BUDDIES UP WITH A BEATLE Sir Paul McCartney is working with Halocreators Bungie on a video game soundtrack, presumably for its Activision-published series Destiny. “I’m really excited to be working on writing music with @bungie, the studio that made Halo,” the musical legend and Beatles man tweeted. And doesn’t he look thrilled, fingers splayed in a celebratory jazz hands motion, as Bungie music boss Marty O’Donnell talks him through the project. Here’s hoping this one works out better than The Beatles: Rock Band.
FROM THE ARCHIVE... FIVE YEARS AGO MCV July 13th 2007
NEWS
Despite ongoing Wii stock problems, Nintendo claims half of all console sales in the first half of the year… GAME announces online discounting plans that will help it take on Amazon and Play… Microsoft tells MCVits new three-year warranty will quell anger over the Red Ring of Death and actually drive sales… An
CHARTS
1. HARRY POTTER: PHOENIX EA ......................................360, Wii, DS, PS2
2. MORE BRAIN TRAINING Nintendo ........................................................DS
3. SHREK: THE THIRD Activision ..............360, Wii, DS, PC, PS2
4. THE DARKNESS 2K Games ....................................................360
5. RESIDENT EVIL 4 Capcom ......................................Wii, PS2, PC
AND FINALLY Keely Brenner quits Activision after six and a half years, ending her stint at the publisher with a debauched (her words) leaving party… Ubisoft gives journalists surfing lessons ahead of the release of its Surf’s Up tie-in (near right)… Travis’ Fran Healy rocks out at a Guitar Heropreview (far right)… Sony co-sponsors the drinking tent at Glastonbury…
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expanded Asda games team prepares for its biggest Q4 ever… UK retailers GAME, Gamestation and HMV consider opening new outlets – in PlayStation Home… Koch Media and Mindscape win rights to a Deal or No Deal game, based on the popular TV show… LEGO hypes up its new MMO LEGO Universe, due for release later in the year. It wouldn’t actually hit shelves until December 2010 – and closed in January 2012…