The 'Halo' effect returns. Xbox 360s are in overdrive.
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At $170 million in sales in its first day out, the video game 'Halo 3' bests movie blockbusters and boy wizards for entertainment spending.
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Microsoft Corp. finally came through with Halo 2 and ended the waiting period of millions of gamers worldwide today by announcing Halo 2 in the market.
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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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Online gaming could be about to explode say experts as Xbox live traffic quadruples on the day Halo 2 launches.
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Tycho:  There's a new Alternate Reality Game spinning up for Halo 3, God Damn them - God Damn them to hell.  I know perfectly well that I am being subjugated by a sophisticated marketing effort, that the best one can accomplish in these games is to get a real good look at the teeth before the mouth closes around you.  I type this even as the rabbit holes stand open in two other windows.  I don't presume to speak for the entire species, but there is something about secrets that does bit the mind.
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Long lines greet release of Xbox game sequel. Also: The transformative powers of "Half-Life 2."
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Technology News, LOS ANGELES - 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 &quot;Halo&quot; on the Xbox video game console, it was well worth the wait
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Microsoft Corp  has cemented its reputation among hardcore gamers with the launch of alien shoot-out "Halo 3," but it is still struggling to attract the mass market audience that has flocked to Nintendo Co Ltd's  Wii console.
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Microsoft taps Peter Jackson to add some magic to the Halo franchise.
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A new video-game publisher wants to put creative power back in the hands of the little guy. Plus: Halo 3 button lets you mute whiney players. In Game|Life.
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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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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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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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Microsoft's Xbox 360 has had the market to itself for a year, but the arrival of Sony's PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii will reshape the game.
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Microsoft Corp's &lt;MSFT.O&gt; "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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As of November, 4.1 million Americans have bought Halo 3 -- more than half of the current 7.9 million Xbox 360 owners in the United States.
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The sequel to the best-selling Xbox game, Halo, is finished, say its makers.