Players of the free-to-play shooter Warframe are looking to accomplish one of the oddest feats in video game history when they gather tomorrow to set the Guinness World Record for having "The Largest Gathering of People Wearing Fake Mustaches Simultaneously in a Video Game."
Something tells me the players won't have too much competition. It's a strange record to be sure but for a good cause. Warframe developer Digital Extremes has been raising awareness for the men's health campaign Movember all month. Players who donated to the Movember Foundation, which encourages the growing of facial hair to help spread awareness for men's health issues, were granted a variety of in-game mustaches that could be affixed to the upper lips of their game characters.
Those mustaches will come in handy when players equip them between 3:00-4:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow to help set the record. A Twitch stream will be documenting the event, as will players by posting screenshots of their fancy digital mustaches on the Warframe forums.
If only the developer organized the event a day earlier! Then Warframe players could have set the new record on Guinness World Records Day 2014. This seems like a major missed opportunity.
Guinness hands out world records like candy these days, but at least Warframe's Movember campaign is for a good cause. The same can't be said for a recent Guiness World Record that had a player travel to the real world setting of Far Cry 4 to play the game. William Cruz, 23-years-old, won a contest to travel to the Himalayas and climb 18,569 feet up Mount Everest to play Ubisoft's upcoming video game, all in order to achieve the record of "Highest Altitude Videogame Session." He played the game for 79 minutes in freezing temperatures and low-air pressure to set the record.
On the bright side, he got to play Far Cry 4 a few weeks early. Worth it? Probably not. He didn't even get a digital in-game mustache for his trouble.
Photo: Digital Extremes
