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Halo Sells 3 Million, Gets New Machinima

Posted by simoniker on from the stunt-driving-par-excellence dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the Xbox.com press release announcing "that Halo: Combat Evolved has sold more than three million copies worldwide" , by far the largest-selling software title on Microsoft's console. The press release also plugs the forthcoming PC version of Halo, which, according to Avault, will have a $30,000 team tournament devoted to it at the CPL's Winter 2003 Tournament in Dallas this December. Finally, Bungie.org has news of a great-looking new Halo trick video, called 'Winning Isn't Everything' - thanks to GameTab for providing a BitTorrent mirror for this super-skilful, stunt and exploit-filled romp.

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  1. It's sad to see such a good game languish on x-box by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 2, Funny

    As other posters have mentioned, while Halo is by far the best selling X-box game, it's still vastly outsold by games for other platforms.

    It really makes be wonder how big Halo could have been if Microsoft had released it for PC/Mac/etc.., as Bungie planned before they got bought, instead of using it to prop up thier doomed console venture.

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  2. Re:It's sad to see such a good game languish on x- by nathanh · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not in denial. I thought the X-Box was junk for months. I didn't buy one untill I had some spare cash about a year ago (that's about a year after launch) and decided that I wanted to try Halo and I wanted to play JSRF (because the origional was so great). I haven't regretted that purchase to this day.

    Even worse, you're born again.

    You sound exactly like the Sega Saturn owners did only a decade ago. It's sad and funny at the same time.