&#39;Halo 2 Flu&#39; Overtakes The Country As Game Goes On Sale
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NEW YORK - If there was an increase in the number of people who took the day off from work or stayed home from school Tuesday, it may not have been the flu that kept them at home and on the couch.
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(Rochester, NY) 11/09/04 -- Workers in some Rochester-area toy and game stores worked late Monday night as fans of &quot;Halo 2&quot; lined up to buy a copy of the X-Box game that went on sale at midnight.
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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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Halo 2, Microsoft&#39;s most prized Xbox asset and its biggest hope for success this Christmas, has been leaked onto the Internet just days after developer Bungie officially completed work on the game and announced that it had shipped it off to manufacturing
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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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For weeks now, bits and pieces of Valve Software&#39;s &quot;Half-Life 2,&quot; one of the year&#39;s most hotly anticipated computer games, have been trickling onto nearly 2 million computers around the world.
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Sales of over-the-counter drugs taken to treat the flu may help the government learn more quickly about local outbreaks.
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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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"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 the Xbox 360 nearly doubled in September in the US thanks to Halo 3, while the Wii continue to post impressive sales numbers.
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Video-game fans across the country stood in the chilly November air last night, eagerly awaiting the arrival of &quot;Halo 2.&quot;.
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Sales of video games in the UK are at an all-time high, with more than 78 million titles sold in 2007.
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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 company says thousands of retailers across the country are planning &quot;midnight madness&quot; sales for eager gamers. Microsoft says it has 1.5 million pre-orders for the sequel to the popular &quot;Halo&quot; game, which sells for $50.
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_ Health officials said the flu was &quot;widespread&quot; in the city on Tuesday after finding increases in positive cultures from local labs, sales of over-the-counter flu medications and the number of people reporting symptoms in doctors&#39; offices
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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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Recent flu seasons dominated by more severe strains of flu and an aging US population that&#39;s more vulnerable to disease have caused a jump in the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the respiratory illness.