Microsoft &quot;Halo 3&quot; 1st-day game sales at $170 million
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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said  its &quot;Halo 3&quot; video game had $170 million in sales on its first  day, easily surpassing its predecessor, 2004&#39;s &quot;Halo 2,&quot; which  racked up $125 million in the first day.
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Microsoft said Wednesday that it had ended its multiplayer beta of Halo 3, adding that it had attracted over 820,000 unique participants contributing over 12 million hours of game play.
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Microsoft Corp  sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles such as "Halo 3" and "Mass Effect", according to company data released on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp  geared up on  Monday to launch &quot;Halo 3,&quot; the acclaimed science-fiction video  game that it hopes will widen its lead over rival Sony Corp  (6758.T) in the battle for industry dominance.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft said Wednesday it will replace discs of its Halo 3 Xbox 360 game that were already scratched when users purchased them. On its Xbox 360 Web site, Microsoft said an Xbox Disc Replacement Program will replace Halo 3 Limited Edition Game Discs and Essentials Discs at no charge through Feb. 1, 2008, but only for Xbox 360 console owners in countries where Xbox is sold at authorized retail locations. Microsoft released the highly anticipated Halo 3 Xbox 360 game on Tuesday at midnight, but some users found that their game discs were already scratched upon purchase. Some attributed the scratches to the company's packaging of the discs, which did not keep them in place. Users did not report any performance issues with the scratched discs. To get a new disc to replace one that was scratched, people who purchased Halo 3 and meet the program requirements can fill out and print a program form and send it to Microsoft. They should receive a replacement disc in about two weeks, according to the Web site. Halo 3 is the latest installment in the critically praised and enormously popular first-person shooter series developed by Bungie Studios. Microsoft said it had more than 1 million preorders of Halo 3 before its release this week, and fans lined up Monday outside of a New York Best Buy retail outlet for the game's launch hours before the game went on sale.
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The latest iteration of the hit video game franchise has broken single-day entertainment product revenue records.
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Microsoft&#39;s eagerly anticipated video game, Halo 2, will go on sale at midnight tonight, with the first copy to be distributed at the Toys &#39;R&#39; Us flagship store in Times Square, New York City.
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Microsoft said yesterday that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 23 percent on brisk sales of the new Halo 3 video game, Windows and Office.
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Halo 3, undoubtedly the most anticipated title for the Xbox 360 -- and perhaps of all time -- will be finally available tonight. More than 10,000 stores will be opening their doors at midnight to sell the game, which is expected to break all sales records and become the biggest interactive entertainment launch in history.
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Microsoft sees strong quarterly profits, following demand for its Halo 3 video game and computers using Windows.
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Call it the Halo holiday, or the Halo bug. Some gamers are going to be a little sleepy this week at work or school, if they show up at all. With yesterday's release of Halo 3, the highly anticipated video game for the Xbox 360 console, many gamers are taking some personal time. "In my group of fr...
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Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles such as "Halo 3" and "Mass Effect", according to company data released on Thursday.
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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 exclusive Xbox 360 video game &quot;Halo 3&quot; rocketed to 170 million dollars on opening day, marking an historic debut that outdid the final Harry Potter novel and the film &quot;Spiderman 3.&quot;
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NEW YORK/SEATTLE  - Microsoft Corp  began  selling "Halo 3" on Tuesday, hoping the acclaimed alien shooter  game will widen its lead over Sony Corp  in the battle  for industry dominance.
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Microsoft Corp  began its  midnight sales of &quot;Halo 3,&quot; the acclaimed alien shooter game  that it hopes will widen its lead over Sony Corp (6758.T) in  the battle for industry dominance.
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Microsoft Corp. said sales of its Halo 2 video game, the sequel to the best-selling title for its Xbox video-game machine, topped 2.4 million in North America, generating $125 million on its first day.