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Halo Wars Reaches One Million Sales

I wasnt one of them. I didnt find the demo fun.

Microsoft announced today that Halo Wars has reached more than one million sales worldwide, making it the most sucessful real-time strategy game on any current generation console.

Full press release:

LONDON – 19th March 2009 - Microsoft today announced that sales of “Halo Wars” have reached more than one million units worldwide, making the exclusive Xbox 360 title the best selling real-time strategy game on any current generation console. With a revolutionary control scheme designed expressly for the Xbox 360 controller and a riveting story that takes “Halo” fans deeper into the “Halo” universe, “Halo Wars” is breaking new ground for the strategy genre by introducing a new wave of fans to strategy games and reminding existing fans why it’s so fun.

Set in the year 2525, “Halo Wars” takes players on a perilous journey through the famed “Halo” universe. As players take the command seat in the early, epic battles between the UNSC and Covenant, they will begin to unravel events 20 years before “Halo: Combat Evolved” that shaped the franchise into what it is today.

Since the game’s release throughout Asia on February 26 and subsequent launches in Europe and the Americas, fans around the world have been taking full advantage of “Halo Wars’” rich Xbox LIVE gameplay. To date:

· There have been more than 2.6 million multiplayer matches played

· More than 118 years of time has been spent in multiplayer matches on Xbox LIVE

· On average, more than 200,000 “Halo Wars” fans have taken up arms in battles between the UNSC and Covenant each day

· For more statistics and game information, fans can visit the official stats page at: http://www.halowars.com/stats/globalstats.aspx

But these initial explosive battles in “Halo Wars” are just beginning. Microsoft is working closely with partner and newly formed studio Robot Entertainment, which is comprised of “Halo Wars” and “Age of Empires” veterans from Ensemble Studios. More Halo Wars content is being prepared, so stay tuned.

“Halo Wars” is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and 16+ PEGI and is available worldwide. “Halo Wars” is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and 16+ PEGI and is available worldwide. A demo is also available on Xbox LIVE in all LIVE enabled regions worldwide. For more information, visit Xbox.com/Halo or HaloWars.com.

[via strategyinformer.com]

GameStop Chooses Halo Wars Over Killzone 2 for Launches

I have both the ps3 and the 360 but I'm only going to buy Halo Wars for the mythic maps for halo 3.

I just returned from my local GameStop and had a very interesting
conversation with the manager; apparently 95% of the Killzone 2 midnight
launches have been cancelled, surprisingly the late-night openings for Halo Wars
are still on. His guess at why this was happening was that there just weren't
enough pre-orders to justify most of the stores opening. I live in a city of
250,000 and there is only one GameStop store in the area still doing a midnight
launch for Killzone 2, apparently around 10 were originally planned.

This whole situation comes as a bit of a surprise considering all the talk
by Playstation 3 fans about the huge pre-order numbers that the upcoming Sony
exclusive is supposedly producing. I understand that times are tough financially
and GameStop corporate has to cut things that aren't making financial sense, is
Killzone 2's success one of those unneeded things? Considering GS is the largest
video game retailer in the country this could definitely have an impact on the
game's sales, especially when the same company is doing a midnight launch for
the Xbox 360 exclusive less than a week later. What's the story at your local
GameStop, is this something that is happening all over the country?

[via planetxbox360.com]

New "Believe" Video

A new Halo 3 museum video has surfaced. Enemy Weapons: Two Halo war veterans describe a Brute handgun on display at the Museum of Humanity Weapons Hall.

Halo Wars Available on XBLM Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Monday 17, 2007 The Halo wars demo will be available on Xbox live Marketplace.

Halo Wars” is the next big real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios, creators of Age of Empires. Designed exclusively for the Xbox 360, “Halo Wars” allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective. However, we might get a taste of the game sooner than we expected.


In an exclusive interview via Playtm and Gamespot during Games Conventions in Leipzig 2007, with Harter Ryan, Ensemble’s executive producer, he revealed that a demo will be hitting Xbox Live within the few days.

Credit goes to Xbox Family for this amazing news

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