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These are serious questions, and they are becoming more serious everyday. On January 20 of this year (the day, incidentally, of President Bush’s second inauguration) Microsoft announced that it had sold a record-breaking 6.4 million copies of its new game Halo 2. The same game pulled in $125 million on its first day of sales, three times the amount made on the most successful opening day in movie history (Spider-Man, $40.4 million). Of course, the movie industry is still much larger than the video game industry, but it may not be so for very much...
...While Halo 2 has been rocking the console market, The Sims has become the best-selling computer game of all time, with over 54 million copies of the 7-expansion pack franchise sold in the past five years. The Sims, created by Will Wright and produced by Electronic Arts in 2000, has revolutionized the game industry by significantly penetrating the market’s traditionally weak demographics (women and adults) and successfully transcending borders and language barriers with an unprecedented 17 international editions. The Sims is also conceptually revolutionary: nothing actually happens in the game, which makes its success...
There's another key difference between America's Army and other games. Unlike with, say, Halo 2 or Doom 3, it's a relatively small step from virtual combat to the real thing. You can click a button in the game menu and go straight to an Army recruiting website. Theoretically, the Army can even track your performance in the game and use the information it harvests to evaluate your potential as a soldier. "That's part of the plan, but we haven't done it yet," says Wardynski. "Ultimately, if a kid comes to the Army and signs...
Zuckerberg said that if the Beirut tournament had been a success, he was considering a Halo tournament, pitting college students against each other in the popular video game using thefacebook.com as the platform...
...neighborhood children, Pangelinan asked the Iraqi how he thought the election would go. "Hopefully it will succeed in Mosul," the man said. Pangelinan responded, "I know it will." A few minutes later, after Pangelinan and his men had moved on, a car bomb detonated in the distance, sending a halo of white smoke into the air. --With reporting by Charles Crain/ Mosul, Aparisim Ghosh/Baghdad, Helen Gibson/ London and Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/ Washington