Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2026

By Guinness World Records

A browse-anywhere records book about video games, so it's the rare one your child opens without being asked.

The fastest anyone has finished a game built to take forty hours. The rarest Fortnite skin. The hundred greatest gaming characters, ranked and argued over. The most money anyone's ever been paid to play. Roblox, Minecraft, Pokémon, Zelda, the business side of esports, and a wall of screenshots and photographs on every spread. There's no order to it. Your child opens it wherever a picture grabs them, reads the record, and usually turns to tell someone. That someone is you.

Most books in the house are competing with the console for your child's attention and losing. This one isn't competing with it, it's about it, so that argument never starts. A child who plays these games comes to it already knowing the players and already caring who holds the record, so there's no run-up and nobody to talk into anything. They open it because they want to. For a child who's spent a couple of years calling books boring, getting them to open one willingly is most of the battle.