Halo 2 an Immediate Success
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The long awaiting video game, Halo 2, hit shelves this week with an expected take of $80 million in first day sales. The Xbox game by Bungie Studios (acquired by Microsoft due to the success of the first Halo
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Itâs not much of an exaggeration to say Halo did to videogames what The Lord of the Rings did to feature films. Epic in scale and addictive in entertainment, the first Halo, like The Fellowship of the Ring
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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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&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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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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While Halo 2 is already a huge hit for Xbox out of the box, parent company Microsoft hopes the ripple effect of Halo 2 lasts well into its next generation of gaming hardware.
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[jhu: red by joan: ] In &quot;Halo 2,&quot; you blow the heads off hundreds of space aliens with shotguns, rocket launchers and rifles.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s alien-killer gaming thrill, &quot;Halo 3,&quot; has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
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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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Bungie has released the first additional content for Halo 2, downloadable through Xbox Live. When you first boot up Halo 2 and sign in to XBL, you should be prompted to download the content, which is free as part of your Xbox Live membership.
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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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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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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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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said its "Halo 3" video game had $170 million in sales on its first day, easily surpassing its predecessor, 2004's "Halo 2," which racked up $125 million in the first day.
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While the rest of the Puget Sound area relished a gorgeous summer, Microsoft&#39;s Bungie Studios team spent nearly every waking hour putting the finishing touches on the video game &quot;Halo 2.&quot;.
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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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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.