Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2006, when he was 19 years old, he severed his spinal cord, becoming paralyzed from the neck down. He broke two Guinness World Records in the video game Fortnite by 2020. In 2020, he signed with Luminosity Gaming, becoming the first-ever quadriplegic to sign with an esports organization.
Escape from Tarkov is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game in development by Battlestate Games for Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the fictional Norvinsk region in northwestern Russia , where a war is taking place between two private military companies (United Security "USEC" and the Battle Encounter Assault Regiment ...
In November 2021, Kim Mi-Young, known by her Twitch username kkatamina, held the record for the most-subscribed female Twitch streamer with 73,623 subscribers until March 2022, when VTuber Ironmouse broke the record during her 31-day subathon with 171,818 subscribers.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
In April 2020, Lazar made comments about Valorant, a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Riot Games. He claimed the game's closed beta was poorly managed, and that other streamers had manipulated Twitch's "Drops" system to receive game keys, giving them access to the closed beta to increase their viewer counts ...
Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one of the most persistent ...
A further variant of the tactical shooter is the extraction shooter, generally defined by the gameplay style of Escape from Tarkov. [14] These games are often "player versus player versus environment" (PvPvE), where players are grouped into teams and placed on a map with the goal to reach an extraction point elsewhere on the map while avoiding ...
On October 24, 2014, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2025. [2] [4] He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year in 2015. [5]