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New Elden Ring Any% World Record Breaks 5-Minute Barrier!
The Soulsborne gaming franchise has always proven to be a popular choice for the speedrunning community. This is, of course, largely due to a combination of the game’s perceived difficulty as well as the fact that, by and large, FromSoftware isn’t a particularly good developer for PC meaning that glitches…
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3DMark Firestrike Has a Brand New Record Holder – And it’s the AMD 6900 XT!
3DMark Firestrike is undoubtedly an excellent benchmarking tool. We regularly utilise it here at eTeknix for our various reviews and can attest to its excellent reliability and accurate registration of performance. For those of you familiar with it, therefore, you are more than likely aware of their ‘Hall of Fame’.…
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Steam Hits Another New Concurrent User Record!
Were you logged into Steam early yesterday afternoon? At around 2-3 pm? No, it doesn’t matter if you were playing anything or not, you just had to be logged in somewhere. – If the answer is yes, then congratulations! Why? Well, following the latest update to their database you are…
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Super Mario Bros Sets New Record as Boxed Copy Sells for $2M
July was an exceptionally busy month in terms of collectable retro gaming. Firstly, a copy of ‘The Legend of Zelda’ set a brand new record, and just a few days later, this was completely smashed when a boxed copy of ‘Super Mario 64’ sold for $1.56M. – In something that…
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Super Mario Bros Speedrun Achieves the Seemingly Impossible!
Back in 2018, speedrunner ‘Kosmic‘ set a new world record for Super Mario Bros of 4:55.913 in what was largely described as ‘the perfect run’. Ever since this was achieved though, many have debated whether it was humanly possible to get that time even lower! Of course, it was always…
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HyperX Sets New DDR4 Memory Overclocking World Record
HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston, has today announced that HyperX Predator DDR4 memory was used to set a new overclocking world record for the fastest DDR4 memory frequency at 7156 MHz. The world record for highest frequency was set by the MSI OC Team in Taiwan using a HyperX…
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Call of Duty Warzone Quad Team Sets New Kill World Record
Having achieved a handful of Call of Duty Warzone wins with my friends, I certainly don’t profess to any of us being particularly good at it. On those rare occasions where we have been able to beat the odds, we usually tend to amass around 20-30 kills between the four…
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Billy Mitchell & Twin Galaxies Are Going to Trial!
If you don’t know who Billy Mitchell or Twin Galaxies are, then to be honest the history between them at this point is a little too long and convoluted for the casual observer. I’d probably need a few thousand words to give you the full history and, even then, I…
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A New Donkey Kong World Record Has Been Set
You may have noted that over the last few days, one of the biggest Donkey Kong Highlights (and trust me, we don’t get many of those) was that Guinness World Records recently announced that Billy Mitchell’s previously removed scores had been reinstated on their website. While I still suspect that…
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Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell’s World Records!
If you’re not familiar as to who Billy Mitchell is at this point, then quite frankly you’re probably either not interested in him or you haven’t been paying much attention to the gaming news over the last few years. Put simply though, as one of the most recognizable figures in…
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G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Achieves New DDR4-6666 World Record
G.SKILL, a world-leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals, is thrilled to claim yet another world record. In close cooperation with the ASUS ROG team, the team has achieved a world record for the fastest memory frequency at an incredible DDR4-6666. This record was achieved utilizing the G.SKILL…
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Apollo Legend Looks to Countersue Billy Mitchell
Around a week ago it came to our attention that following a lot of bluster over the last 18 months, Billy Mitchell had finally issued legal action against those that he (apparently) considered to be his biggest critics. Launching libel cases seeking a total of around $13m in damages, it…
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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Beats Intel for the wPrime World Record
If you’re looking to test the raw grunt that a processor has, then the wPrime benchmark is undoubtedly one of the best tests to perform. For quite a significant period, however, the Intel i9-7920X CPU has held the ‘world record’ in terms of giving the highest (or more accurately in…
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Video – British ‘Iron Man’ Sets New Jet Suit Speed Record
Two years ago, British inventor Richard Browning not only revealed his (personally designed) jet-powered suit but also set a new world record for the fastest recorded speed on such a device. Not satisfied with that achievement, however, he was recently in Brighton to give his latest innovations a ‘test’ run.…
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Micron Memory Sets New DDR4 Overclocking World Record
Crucial Ballistix memory is the high-performance king once again. Their memory has managed to set a new overclocking world record. Maxing out at a whopping memory frequency at 6024MT/s. Leveraging performance-tuned Micron die and the innovation behind the new Ballistix® Elite 4000 memory, the ASUS motherboard R&D team set the record using liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling and…
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