25% of gamers plan to be 'Halo Sick' ?

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For Microsoft Xbox 360 owners, Tuesday is Opening Day - the time to skip school, call in sick or take a vacation day for the big game. Halo 3.The much-anticipated third and final edition in the Halo video game trilogy - about a super-human soldier, Master Chief, fighting against alien races and parasites - will be released at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.I've already talked to my teachers and got my assignments for Tuesday. I don't plan on going to class," says Dane Mitchell, 20, a Cincinnati State and Community College sophomore."I'm going to pick up the game at midnight from GameStop, go to a friend's house, and play it for 36 hours," he says. "That's what we did before, when Halo 2 came out, my senior year in high school. I can't believe my parents let me skip school to play it."An estimated 4 million copies will be sold in the U.S. in a month, says GamesIndustry.biz. To check out more excuses follow the link to the source above.

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