You saw that with iPod creating halo for Mac, with iPhone creating halo for iPad.
And Halo 3 and Halo 3:ODST were both sold early, by accident, reportedly.
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Well my point was not directed at Halo 4 individually, but AAA FPS titles in general (which includes halo).
The company announced at Comic-Con 2009 that it would produce a series of seven short anime films called "Halo Legends, " based on the "Halo" franchise.
The video story fits in to the overall storylines featured in "Halo 4" and is a literal bridge between "Halo 3" and the new video game.
Hopefully after voting in their local precinct, yesterday millions of Halo fans finally got to return to their beloved series with the release of Halo 4.
The game introduces a new character from the recent "Halo" Web series, and I sometimes wondered if I was missing inside jokes from the related "Halo" books.
And since the first Halo was the primary launch title with the original Xbox, it makes sense to speculate that the latest Halo will launch alongside the Xbox 720.
The deepening interactions between these two main characters enhance the narrative and make "Halo 4" a wonderful new addition to a beloved franchise -- and the best "Halo" campaign so far.
In any case, the iPod shuffle has proved the product's vaunted "halo effect" in that, when Apple introduced its new iPod in January, everybody stopped talking about how many copies of Halo 2 Microsoft shipped during December.
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"We are aware that there is an issue with the Xbox SmartGlass experience for 'Halo Waypoint' on Windows Phone 8 devices, which may prevent users from accessing Halo 4 player stats, " a Microsoft rep told us this afternoon.
Halo 2, out in 2004, turbocharged the popularity of Microsoft s then two-year-old online service.
Now Halo is an international title, but both the developer and publisher are American.
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Recently, Halo games have become increasingly less viable as a competitive title at the highest levels.
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Halo 2 was leaked onto the Internet in October 2004, a month before its release.
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What do the Southwest Airlines boarding process and the video game Halo have in common?
He countered that the popular video game Halo likely uses swarm intelligence as well.
Microsoft wanted to put the game Bungie was developing, Halo, on its then-nascent XBox gaming console.
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Early in September 2003 I had the redo: the whole iron halo procedure all over again.
After a little online research, I discovered this phenomenon is called the health halo effect.
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The challenge for Halo and Black Ops is to prove they have something new to offer.
Others, like Skype and Halo, are more closed systems, requiring subscribers on both ends.
The Fellowship works inside the halo of moral authority of the only authentic Biblical Samaritans.
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The "Halo" series chronicles an interstellar war between humans and aliens known as the Covenant.
Despite all the mayhem, what stood out for me about "Halo 4" was the story.
The graphics of "Halo 4" are outstanding in their detailed depictions of characters and background environments.
The human portion is your Intranet with its near-neighborhood Internet-halo of prosumer market operations.
Last year Madden was up against Take-Two's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Microsoft's Halo 2.
On Tuesday at midnight, the latest title in the sci-fi first-person shooter series Halo: Reach launched.
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If Nintendo has Mario and Facebook has FarmVille, then Microsoft has the Halo series.
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