World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 Set Records

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Electronic Theatre reports that Guinness World Records representatives were on hand at E3 to recognize several developers for setting new records in the 2010 Gamer's Edition. Among them were Blizzard Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks, who received recognition for reaching 11.6 million subscribers and producing the fastest-selling multi-platform RPG in history, respectively.

Blizzard Entertainment's Mike Morhaime and Paul Sams accepted the records for World of Warcraft for the Most Popular Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) with a total of 11.6 million subscribers and Starcraft for being the Best Selling Strategy Game for a PC, selling 9.5 million copies worldwide.

Bethesda Softworks' Lead Designer Todd Howard was awarded with the record for the Fastest-selling Multi Platform Role-Playing Game (RPG) after Fallout 3 sold over 4.7 million copies in its first week on sale from October 28th to November 4th 2008.

World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 Set Records

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