Xbox&#39;s &quot;Halo 2&quot; video game expected to be blockbuster
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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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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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A month before the video game&#39;s scheduled release this coming Tuesday, illegal copies of the hot sci-fi action title &quot;Halo 2&quot; were already circulating on the Internet.
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The body count is high in two new video games, &quot;Halo 2&quot; and &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.&quot;. Those two hit games also are making casualties of their competition on the sales racks.
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The sequel to the best-selling Xbox game, Halo, is finished, say its makers.
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First-day sales of Microsoft&#39;s new video game Halo 2 will reach $100 million, a senior Microsoft games executive said Tuesday.
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Not only is Microsoft Game Studios' "Halo 3" the most eagerly anticipated video game of the year -- it achieved a milestone of a million preorders two months ago -- but this action sci-fi series has become a cultural phenomenon, spawning novels, comics, action figures and a top-secret project with Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King").
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The first Halo game sold quite a few Xboxes (we know a few Xbox owners who don't appear to play any other titles on their consoles), and Halo 2 has already clocked $125 million in sales -- on its first day in stores.
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About three weeks ahead of its release date, a copy of the much anticipated Xbox game Halo 2 has been leaked onto the Internet. The leak, reportedly a European French-language version, came just days after
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The company says thousands of retailers across the country are planning &quot;midnight madness&quot; sales for eager gamers. Microsoft says it has 1.5 million pre-orders for the sequel to the popular &quot;Halo&quot; game, which sells for $50.
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Microsoft&#39;s  &quot;Halo 3&quot; has  dominated video game headlines this week, but if blasting  aliens isn&#39;t appealing there is more on offer in other games,  including role-playing the composer Frederic Chopin.
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According to reports, copies of the eagerly awaited Halo 2 Xbox game made an impromptu debut last night on Usenet groups and pirate sites.
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Millions of video-game enthusiasts will soon see if Master Chief can successfully defend Earth from an invasion of Covenant forces.
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The first Halo game sold quite a few Xboxes (we know a few Xbox owners who don&#39;t appear to play any other titles on their consoles), and Halo 2 has already clocked $125 million in sales -- on its first day in stores.
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Description: Game reviewer Robert Holt explains the new Xbox game Halo 2, released Tuesday. It&#39;s expected to bring in an estimated $80 million; the original Halo lured many gamers into buying Microsoft&#39;s Xbox in the first place.
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Halo 2 broke entertainment retail records in its first 24 hours. Microsoft Game Studios said that the video game sold through 2.4 million stores in the US and Canada raking in $125 million in sales.
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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.