Assassin's Creed II officially holds the Gamer’s Edition Guinness World Record for being the most cover-featured video game. Why oh why am I not surprised? Assassin’s Creed II has been used as a lead cover story on 127 different publications in 32 countries, between April 2009 and April 2010, according to the accolade.

“Assassin’s Creed is one of our most well-loved brands,” said Alain Corre, managing director EMEA at Ubisoft. “The worldwide interest for the brand, coupled with the energy and creativity of our press team made for a winning combination and Ubisoft is proud to receive this Guinness World Record.”

Gaz Deaves, Editor of Guinness World Records Gamer’s, said: “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."