Halo 2 Rakes in $100 Million
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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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Video game buffs unite: The XBox game &quot;Halo 2,&quot; a sequel to Microsoft&#39;s best-selling game ever, will be released in a show of local fanfare just after midnight Tuesday morning.
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The anticipated release of Halo 2 is the latest and perhaps the best indication of how the blockbuster mentality of Hollywood has pervaded the videogame industry.
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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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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 2."
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Microsoft Xbox Live traffic on service provider networks quadrupled following the November 9th launch of Halo-II -- which set entertainment industry records by selling 2.4-million units in the US and Canada on the first day of availability, driving cash
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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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The Internet leak of Halo 2, the latest installment of Microsoft&#39;s best-selling Xbox video game, is not expected to affect its release, planned for November 9th.
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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 3, one of the most heavily marketed games in history, goes on sale at midnight in the US.
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Microsoft Corp's  "Halo 3" video game set an opening-day U.S. sales record of $170 million, outdoing any video game or movie debut and giving the company's money-losing entertainment unit a strong boost toward profitability.
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Microsoft Corp's  "Halo 3"  video game set an opening-day U.S. sales record of $170  million, outdoing any video game or movie debut and giving the  company's money-losing entertainment unit a strong boost toward  profitability.
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A line nearly 250 people long was standing all the night and thatâs just in order to buy a new video game from Microsoft &quot;Halo 2&quot;.
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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 2."
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Video game Halo 3 earns more than Â£84m ($170m) in sales in its first 24 hours on release, says Microsoft.
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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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Microsoft beat even its own heady expectations for the hotly anticipated Xbox game &quot;Halo 2,&quot; selling more than $125 million of the product its first day in stores.