Black 
Friday and the launch of the Wii U weren’t enough to stop the video game industry’s ongoing slide at physical retail stores. For the twelfth month in a row, sales were lower than a year ago.
That said, the numbers were anything but small.
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Will It Be ‘Game Over’ for Videogame Makers This Holiday?
While 
the videogame industry relies heavily on the holiday period to help boost publisher profits, some companies may find coal in their stocking this year.
Some titles are sure to be certain hits, but the evolving nature of players and some less-than-stellar lineups could leave some publishers who are typically strong holiday performers out in the cold.
How Redbox determines which games to offer
Redbox 
players won’t be joining you in a game of Halo 4 this year. Redbox kiosks are only equipped to rent one disc per rental fee, hence games spanning two or three discs are complicating things for Redbox officials.
Don’t look for players who rely on Redbox as their preferred game rental service to join you in a multiplayer game of Halo 4 this year. You won’t find them playing Assassin’s Creed III online either.
And Medal of Honor: Warfighter? For the most part, they won’t be playing that at all.
Meet the man behind Master Chief
There’s 
a lot we still don’t know about Halo’s Master Chief, but it’s safe to say very few of us thought he’d be a classic rock DJ.
Steve Downes has given the Halo hero his voice since the very beginning. When he’s not busy battling the Covenant, blasting the Promethians, or chatting with Cortana, you can find him on WDRV (“The Drive”) in Chicago.
Halo gets cinematic in live-action series
While 
Microsoft’s dream of a big screen Halo flick (originally planned to be produced by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson) is pretty much dead, the upcoming release of Halo 4 is letting the company make a different sort of Halo film.
“Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn” will be a series of five live-action shorts leading up to the release of Halo 4 this November. Once the game is out, the company plans to collect those episodes, add in another 15 minutes of content and release the product as a feature film, which will be sold direct-to-video.
‘Halo 4′ multiplayer details emerge
Microsoft 
and 343 Industries aren’t waiting for E3 to start spilling the beans about their biggest game of 2012.
Pre-orders for Halo 4 went on sale today, and to help pump up interest in the game, the publisher and developer have released a lot of details about the game’s multiplayer, a live-action digital series and the obligatory special edition.
Activists: ‘Halo 4′ may affect presidential race
Could 
the Master Chief have an impact on the next Commander in Chief?
Political activists fear it’s possible.
‘Halo 4′ launching on Nov. 6
As 
America elects its Commander in Chief, Xbox 360 owners will likely elect to spend some time with a different sort of Chief.
Microsoft has unveiled an Election Day launch date for the next installment in its flagship Halo series — quite possibly the last Halo game for this generation of console systems.
More Halo 4 details revealed
We’re more than a 
year away from Halo 4 hitting store shelves, but Microsoft is already giving fans a peek behind the curtain on one of the most anticipated upcoming games for the Xbox 360.
At last weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle, 343 Industries, which has taken over ownership of the franchise from longtime developer Bungie, dropped a few hints about what we can expect in the game — though the crew certainly left attendees with more questions than answers.
Xbox factor
Microsoft is closer to 
turning Xbox into the everything box.
Sticking with a strategy to promote the Xbox 360 console as more than just a videogame player, Microsoft used its pre-E3 presser on Monday to reveal that the device will start offering live TV in the U.S. and integrate YouTube and search engine Bing as part of a relaunch this fall.
(Co-written with Marc Graser)
Chris Morris: Journalist 