'Halo 2' clears record $125 million in first day
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Lofty figure backs up predictions that game would eclipse even the biggest Hollywood openings.
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Advance copies of the aliens-versus-space marines video game "Halo 2" have already fetched as much as &#36;265 on Internet auction site eBay, days before the official launch.
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Halo 2, the sequel to Microsoft&#39;s best-selling game for its Xbox video console, has leaked onto the internet nearly four weeks before its planned sale.
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The video game &quot;Halo 2&quot; is considered a &quot;killer app&quot; for Microsoft&#39;s Xbox game console -- a piece of software popular enough to drive big sales of the underlying hardware.
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Even if you don&#39;t play video games, chances are you&#39;ve heard about &quot;Halo 2.&quot;. Microsoft Corp. made sure of that with a massive PR blitz, boldly proclaiming &quot;there hasn&#39;t been this much anticipation
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Halo 2 has been released in the US, with fans queuing to get their hands on the Xbox title.
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In just a few minutes, &quot;Halo 2&quot; would officially be released, and these gamers couldn&#39;t wait to get their first taste of the most marketed, and perhaps most anticipated, video game ever.
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(National) Nov. 9, 2004 - &quot;Halo 2,&quot; the Microsoft Xbox game released on Tuesday, has been promoted like a box office blockbuster.
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First-day sales of Microsoft  Corp.'s MSFT.O new video game "Halo 2" will reach $100  million, a senior Microsoft games executive said on Tuesday.
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Even if you don&#39;t play video games, chances are you&#39;ve heard of &quot;Halo 2.&quot;. Microsoft Corp. made sure of that with a massive public relations blitz, boldly proclaiming that &quot;there hasn&#39;t been this much anticipation
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Halo 2, the stunning Xbox video game nearly three years in the making, goes on sale at midnight tonight, with Microsoft pulling out the stops to herald its launch as a pop culture event.
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LOS ANGELES  - The ancient epic "300" came out fighting at the North American box office during its first day of release, and immediately staked out what's shaping up as a potentially record-breaking weekend.
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LOS ANGELES: It takes a special kind of person to stay up all night and stand in a line nearly 250 people long just to buy a video game - but for rabid fans of the first Halo on the Xbox video game console, it was well worth the wait to buy the new Halo
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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter earnings more than doubled, beating Wall Street estimates with strong sales of server software and its Halo 2 video game.
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Halo 2, Microsoft&#39;s most prized Xbox asset and its biggest hope for success this Christmas, has been leaked onto the Internet just days after developer Bungie officially completed work on the game and announced that it had shipped it off to manufacturing
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&quot;San Andreas&quot; likely will outsell &quot;Halo 2&quot; because there are at least 10 million more PlayStation 2 units sold than Xboxes, which are in about 14 million homes.
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Microsoft&#39;s Halo 2 video game launched in stores across Canada at midnight this morning, its accompanying media frenzy and record-breaking sales confirming blockbuster games are becoming as profitable -- and as culturally important -- as first-run movies.