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Eight video games you’ve got to finish

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Gamers game-overare a fickle lot. If a game’s too short, there’s a furious outcry about how we didn’t get our $60 worth. But if it’s too long, most of us never get around to finishing it.

Raptr, which tracks more than 23 million gaming sessions, last year estimated that only 10 percent of players finish the final mission of a game. We get it. Life’s busy. There’s always something new on the horizon to distract your attention. And, frankly, the stories often aren’t strong enough to keep you glued to the screen, no matter how good the gameplay is.

Some games, though, demand to be completed. No matter how busy you are, here are eight games that you owe it to yourself to finish.

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The 10 biggest game openings of all time

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Year after year, a Call of Duty game hits store shelves and within about 24 hours, Activision’s PR team is shouting from the rooftops about the series setting a new entertainment industry sales record. The most recent release, Black Ops II, is no exception.

But several other gaming franchises have had blockbuster opening weekends as well, earning more in a one- or five-day period than most games make in their entire lifespan.

Here’s a look at the 10 biggest debuts in gaming history.

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Meet the man behind Master Chief

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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.

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Halo gets cinematic in live-action series

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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.

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BBC mistakes ‘Halo’ logo for U.N. Security Council

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This is either one of the most embarrassing news bloopers of the year or the smartest viral marketing scheme we’ve ever seen.

During a report last week on the conflict in Syria, BBC News accidentally used the logo for the ‘United Nations Space Command’ — the agency tasked with protecting Earth from hostile forces in the Halo video game franchise — to represent the significantly less fictional United Nations Security Council. Whoops!

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Next game from ‘Halo’ creators leaked

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If you’ve been itching to play the new game from Bungie, the creators of Halo, you won’t have to wait too much longer.

The company’s new title, codenamed “Destiny,” is scheduled to hit store shelves next fall, and should be playable on both the Xbox 360 and Microsoft’s still officially unannounced next-generation system.

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‘Halo 4′ multiplayer details emerge

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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.

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‘Halo 4′ launching on Nov. 6

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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.

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America’s Radio News Network – April 5

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Every Thursday, I join Chris Salcedo and Lori Lundin on the mid-day edition of America’s Radio News Network to discuss trends and news in the technology and video game space. This week’s topics were Google’s Project Glass (and privacy concerns) and some eye-popping numbers tied to the Halo franchise.

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