Action Game 'Halo 2' Sold Early on EBay
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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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Microsoft Corp.  on Friday said it has sold more  than 2 million copies worldwide of "Gears of War," where  players slay invading aliens with weapons like chainsaw-mounted  machine guns and splatter television screens with bloody alien  bits.
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Halo 2, one of the most anticipated video games of the year, got an early release date, but not the way fans or its publisher, Microsoft, had hoped.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it had sold 1 million copies of its game "Gears of  War" in two weeks, making it the fastest-selling title for its  Xbox 360 video game console.
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The countdown to midnight madness is over and Halo enthusiasts have begun a mad rush to be among the first to get their copies of Halo 2. Halo 2 is the widely anticipated sequel to Halo, the top selling Xbox title of all time. In Halo 2, the Covenant, the plot thickens when an invasive alien race bent on the destruction of mankind sets its sights on Earth. All that stands between Earthlings and total annihilation is a genetically altered "super solider" called Master Chief. Halo 2 is available from most retail outlets.
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Hordes of video game fans queued outside more than 6500 stores across the United States overnight on Tuesday 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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"Master Chief" entered the record  books close behind the former Commander-in-Chief this week, as  book publisher Random House said first-day sales of the  strategy guide for video game "Halo 2" were its biggest since  the launch of Bill Clinton's book "My Life."
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Sales of the Xbox 360 nearly doubled in September in the United States thanks to Halo 3, while the Nintendo Wii continue to post impressive sales numbers.
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Microsoft has confirmed that a pirated copy of Halo 2 for Xbox in the PAL video format and French language started circulating on the Internet late Wednesday night.
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First it was Halo 2, now GTA. The new iteration of the popular Grand Theft Auto franchise was supposed to hit retails shelves by the end of October however pirated
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Microsoft has released a swathe of new figures related to Bungie&#39;s Xbox opus, Halo 2, revealing that the title has now sold over five million units worldwide and become the most popular game in the history of Xbox Live.
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TORONTO (CP) - North American sales of Halo 2 reached $125 million US in the first 24 hours of the video game&#39;s release, according to Xbox parent company Microsoft.
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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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In the days before Microsoft Corp. released the hotly anticipated Halo 2 video game for the Xbox game console, some gamers noticed a sudden spike in the number of people being kicked off the company's online game service. That was no coincidence.
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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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First-day sales of Microsoft Corp.'s  new video game "Halo 2" will reach &#36;100 million, a senior Microsoft games executive said on Tuesday.
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"Halo 2" proves heaven-sent as Microsoft racks up big-time sales and game fans burn the midnight oil.