Game on: Fans are fired up for release of Halo&#39; sequel
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Three years is an eternity to wait for a sequel. Early Tuesday morn ing, &quot;Halo&quot; fans received deliverance with the launch of &quot;Halo 2,&quot; one of the most anticipated video games of all time.
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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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Over on Microsoft&#39;s Xbox campus today, the &quot;Halo 2&quot; fans chosen to take part in a Backstage Pass event were given some time to speak with the Xbox bigwigs -- Robbie Bach, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Home &amp; Entertainment division, J Allard and
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&quot;Halo 2,&quot; the follow-up to the 2001 best-selling video game, &quot;Halo: Combat Evolved,&quot; will be released Tuesday nationwide for the Microsoft Xbox video game console.
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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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Microsoft hopes the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated &quot;Halo 3&quot; game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendo&#39;s Wii and Sony&#39;s Playstation 3.
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Microsoft Corp  has  cemented its reputation among hardcore gamers with the launch  of alien shoot-out &quot;Halo 3,&quot; but it is still struggling to  attract the mass market audience that has flocked to Nintendo  Co Ltd&#39;s (7974.OS) Wii console.
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Voters apparently weren&#39;t the only ones willing to stand in long lines. The release of this year&#39;s two hottest video games - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Halo 2 - had gamers lined up at stores across the nation to pick up their pre-ordered games.
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With just minutes to go until the official launch of Halo 3, those playing at the pre-launch event in Silicon Valley were in high spirits.
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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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With Halo 2 racking up record sales and eager fans rushing to Microsoft&#39;s Xbox Live online gaming service to compete with other gamers from around the world, it should be an exciting time for Xbox enthusiasts.
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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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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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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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&quot;Halo 2,&quot; which went on sale in November, shattered video game sales records, but does it live up to the hype? Yes. And in spades.
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Halo 3's launch marks a milestone on the journey of video games from niche hobby to cultural phenomenon. Yet those who don't play can be dismissive. Can the myths be laid to rest?
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The gaming world braced Monday for the release of &quot;Halo 3,&quot; expected to be a blockbuster for Microsoft and its struggling XBox 360 game console.