And Halo 3 and Halo 3:ODST were both sold early, by accident, reportedly.
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Setting the time and your wake-up alarm has never been easier thanks to Halo 3's auto-sync time and alarms feature.
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"Halo 3 has become a pop-culture phenomenon, " said Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, in a statement.
Set an alarm in the app, dock your device, and the time and in-app alarms automatically sync to the Halo 3.
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Halo 3 will launch on the Xbox 360 but Mr O'Donnell says he is not being distracted by the new technology.
There is still no fixed release date for Halo 3 - Mr O'Donnell says the game has to pass the "Bungie test" first.
Frazier said that the Xbox 360 installed base is three times the size it was when the previous Halo 3 game was released in 2007.
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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.
While they were at no point bad, Halo 3 was somewhat generic and predictable through a lot of the storyline and ODST was a downloadable expansion gone large.
Wake up refreshed and alert thanks to a wide range of customizable alarm sounds and be prepared for any eventuality, come rain or shine, with Halo 3's animated weather.
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Of course, none of the games are going to be confused for the next generation of graphically intense shoot-em-ups, like "Halo 3, " but there's plenty of room for innovation.
In short, the company is using a game to increase sales of a console which can then generate extra revenue, potentially exceeding the profits made by the Halo 3 franchise.
More than 1.4 million people have gone online to play the title since its launch and more than four million online games of Halo 3 were logged in the last 24 hours.
GEAR4 HQ, March 2013: Wake up happy with the brand new AlarmDock Halo 3 from global provider of gadgets and gizmos, GEAR4- the first app-enabled alarm clock radio for Lightning devices to hit the market.
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It has Sony 's PlayStation 3 on the ropes in the United States, and among today's generation of 20-somethings, Microsoft is better known for blockbuster games like "Halo 3" and "Gears of War" than its bruising late 1990s anti-trust case.
Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.
It has Sony 's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 3 on the ropes in the United States, and among today's generation of 20-somethings, Microsoft is better known for blockbuster games like "Halo 3" and "Gears of War" than its bruising late 1990s anti-trust case.
Other video games making a strong showing include Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 3 - which shifted 886, 198 copies - and Microsoft's Halo 4, with 753, 489.
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