Record-breakers in the news today

World of Warcraft makers Blizzard has taken the wraps off its new project - a collectable card game.

Set for release before the end of the year, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a free-to-play game based around cards players gather, with gamers able to advance faster by buying cards in stores.

Blizzard’s Diablo III became the fastest selling PC videogame of all time last year, after selling an impressive 3.5 million copies in its first 24 hours after launch.

British comedian Peter Kay is to make his first show for BBC One – a sitcom titled Car Share, that will go out on TV only after making its debut on the UK channel’s iPlayer online catch up service.

Kay, who has also directed the six half-hour episodes plays a supermarket worker forced to spend his commute with a colleague as part of a company car-share scheme.

The Bolton-born funnyman holds the record for most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour after shifting 1,140,798 tickets for 2011’s ‘Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour'.

US rock band My Chemical Romance have announced they are splitting up.

New Jersey group formed in 2001 and have released four albums together.

Following the announcement on Saturday, singer Gerard Way posted a picture of escape artist Harry Houdini on his Twitter page.

The fastest handcuff escape blindfolded is 4.06 seconds, achieved by Zdenek Bradac (Czech Republic), at Mseno Police Station, in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic, on 29 November 2010.

Finally, bodybuilding guru Joe Weider, who helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hollywood career, has died aged 93.

Weider, who founded the Mr Olympia bodybuilding contest and built a magazine empire that included titles such as Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness, died in Los Angeles of heart failure on Saturday.

Lee Haney (USA) holds the record for most Mr Olympia titles, having won eight times from 1984 to 1991 a feat equalled by Ronnie Coleman (USA) between 1998 and 2005.

Not far behind is Schwarzenegger, who has won the competition a total of four times.