Microsoft's "Halo 3" game launches amid spectacle
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Microsoft Corp  began its midnight sales of "Halo 3," the acclaimed alien shooter game that it hopes will widen its lead over Sony Corp  in the battle for industry dominance.
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To Microsoft and its Xbox, "Halo 3" is more than just a game.
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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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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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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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Even if you don&#39;t play video games, chances are you&#39;ve heard of &quot;Halo 2.&quot;. Microsoft Corp. made sure of that with a massive public relations blitz, boldly proclaiming that &quot;there hasn&#39;t been this much anticipation
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This year s German Games Convention in Leipzig has offered up a peek at the upcoming blockbuster hit, Halo 2. Hundreds of people got to wait in line for eight stations where the game was running.
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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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Video game aficionados lined up before dawn on Monday for the midnight release of "Halo 3," the acclaimed alien shooter game that Microsoft Corp hopes will widen its lead over Sony Corp in the battle for industry dominance.
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Microsoft's  "Halo 3" has  dominated video game headlines this week, but if blasting  aliens isn't appealing there is more on offer in other games,  including role-playing the composer Frederic Chopin.
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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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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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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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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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Consider this your backstage pass to Halo 3's secretive single-player campaign.
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The gaming world braced Monday for the launch of &quot;Halo 3,&quot; expected to help Microsoft and its XBox 360 console in its battle against Nintendo&#39;s Wii and Sony&#39;s Playstation 3.
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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.