2009’s excellent action adventure game from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed II, has today been awarded a Guinness World Record, and will be featured in the next iteration of the ‘Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition’ book for its achievement.

What’s the record?

According to Ubisoft and Guinness, from April 2009 to April 2010, Assassin’s Creed II was featured as the lead cover story on 127 different publications in 32 countries, making it the most cover-featured videogame ever.

In the UK alone, Assassin’s Creed 2 received 17 front covers and amassed over 340 pages of specialist press coverage, receiving 14 review awards along the way.

Editor of Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition, Gaz Deaves said of the achievement:

“The evidence submitted by Ubisoft was extremely thorough, with full details of every publication that featured the game. It’s been a pleasure researching this category and we were pleasantly surprised that Assassin’s Creed II took the record – I’m sure plenty of commentators (including myself) would have predicted another well-known game winning the title instead, and this achievement is even more impressive in view of the other 2009 releases that Assassin’s Creed II was able to beat.”

Source: Guinness World Records