Video game fans eagerly await Halo 2&#39;s release
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The video game Halo 2 is expected to gross $75 million US in sales over the next 24 hours, with a &quot;midnight madness&quot; release similar to the opening of a blockbuster film.
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It's the hottest ticket in town, as dedicated fans flock to retailers to grab copies of Microsoft's new video game. The opening-day sales figures catapult the sequel to the top of the entertainment heap.
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This year s German Games Convention in Leipzig has offered up a peek at the upcoming blockbuster hit, Halo 2. Hundreds of people got to wait in line for eight stations where the game was running.
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Bungie Studios has commenced the final countdown to Halo 2. Halo 2, a wildly popular Xbox title, has been turned over for release to certification (RTC). Barring any last minute showstoppers, the game is scheduled to hit the shelves November 9 -- just in time for the holidays. In Halo 2, the Covenant -- an invasive alien race bent on the destruction of mankind -- has set its sights on Earth. All that stands between the citizens of Earth and total annihilation is a genetically altered "super solider" named Master Chief. Halo 2 is available via preorder from most retail outlets.
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VANCOUVER - A new computer game launched by Microsoft on Tuesday is graphic, violent - and wildly popular. Halo 2 is a console game where Master Chief, &quot;a genetically enhanced super-soldier,&quot; battles to
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"Halo 2" proves heaven-sent as Microsoft racks up big-time sales and game fans burn the midnight oil.
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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 clocked $125 million in sales on its first day in stores.
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There&#39;s a new media king, only he isn&#39;t on the radio or in the movies. His name? Master Chief. His role: Interstellar soldier and star of &quot;Halo 2,&quot; one of the most anticipated video games ever.
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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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PC World has posted a news article claiming that the highly anticipated game Halo 2 for the Xbox has been released on the net. &quot;Microsoft confirms that a pirated copy of Halo 2 for Xbox in the PAL video format
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Microsoft - and indeed Bungie - can&#39;t be happy. Reports are sweeping the inform-o-tron superhighway that the comeplte code for Halo 2 has leaked onto the net, through newsgroups and file sharing networks.
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Hordes of video game fans lined up outside more than 6,500 stores across the United States overnight to get a copy of the new Halo 2 game whose first day takings are expected to rival a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Two years of hype for Microsoft video-game sequel Halo 2 began to pay off yesterday as fans snapped up millions of copies of the alien-blasting game for the Xbox console.
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Video game aficionados lined up before  dawn on Monday for the midnight release of "Halo 3," the  acclaimed alien shooter game that Microsoft Corp  hopes  will widen its lead over Sony Corp  in the battle for  industry dominance.
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&quot;Halo 2&quot; is unquestionably the most eagerly anticipated video game of 2004. But that may be a bit of an understatement. Its predecessor became a religion, a staple to what seems like 99 percent of dorm room gamers.
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Microsoft Corp  geared up on  Monday to launch &quot;Halo 3,&quot; the acclaimed science-fiction video  game that it hopes will widen its lead over rival Sony Corp  (6758.T) in the battle for industry dominance.
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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