Hailed widely as “video game of the year” and recipient of multiple industry awards for excellence, “Halo™: Combat Evolved” has earned the distinguished honor of being the fastest million-unit seller ever for any next-generation console. According to NPDFunworldSM, the definitive source for toy and video games industry sales data, “Halo: Combat Evolved” recently crossed the magical 1 million mark in sales in the United States and Canada. Statistically, this means that more than six copies of “Halo: Combat Evolved” have been sold every minute of every day since its launch on Nov. 15, 2001.
“Halo: Combat Evolved” also has played a major role in helping the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft Corp. set additional key sales records in the United States in just four months following its launch. The following milestones put Xbox on pace for long-term, worldwide success:
News source: GameSpyDaily
“Halo: Combat Evolved” also has played a major role in helping the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft Corp. set additional key sales records in the United States in just four months following its launch. The following milestones put Xbox on pace for long-term, worldwide success:
News source: GameSpyDaily
Unfortunately, KaZaa and new Australian owners Sharman Networks are achieving a nice cash flow with all this deceit and that only instigates others to do the same. Bearshare and Limewire also stick spyware in their code and as KaZaa pulls in profits they are watching, trying to decide if they should aggressively follow Sharman's lead or wait to first see what repercussions will come from this.
One significant repercussion may have just happened. Zeropaid is reporting that Download.com has removed KaZaa from its site. The reason given is concern about Brilliant Digital's Automatic add-on package.
A check on Sunday confirmed that the program was no longer available on Download.com's "Most Popular" download rankings, a ranking that regularly listed KaZaa in the top five. KaZaa did rank number four under the "Most Talked About" rankings, but the link on the KaZaa page to download the program had been disabled. As of this morning, KaZaa has been removed completely.
Download.com's owners CNET ran several articles recently on KaZaa showing their concern over that programs covert-laden parasite code. While CNET has yet to announce their action - they probably will probably today - there is little doubt that KaZaa at this moment is no longer receiving the million-plus downloads per week that it once enjoyed with rival Morpheus who again tops the Most Popular list with 1.3 million.
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