A Sydney-based sales manager called Okan Kaya has broken the record for the longest videogame marathon by playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for more than 135 hours.
Kaya started playing the game on Tuesday 13 November at the office of his employer 4Cabling. Since then he's been battling to beat the world record established by a Canadian duo in March 2012. Christopher Gloyd and Timothy Bell played Resistance on the PlayStation 3 for more 120 hours and seven minutes.
After more than five days of solid gaming, Kaya seized the Guinness World Record this morning (19 November) by playing for more than 122 hours. In the process he managed to rise to 37th place in the Black Ops 2 leaderboards. Guinness World Record rules allow for players to take a ten-minute break for every hour of activity. The breaks could be accumulated, which allowed Kaya to sleep for several hours at a time. This allowance has been made to avoid having situations such as the one in Tainan, southern Taiwan, where an 18-year-old man collapsed and died during a marathon session of
Diablo 3 after playing solidly for 40 hours.
The record attempt was live streamed via UStream, with regular updates being posted to 4Cabling's Facebook page.
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Update 20/11/2012: The original story said that Kaya beat the record clocking 122 hours. Since the story was first published, he continued to play for many more hours, eventually clocking up 135 hours and 50 minutes.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
