{"id":1068,"date":"2007-08-10T04:22:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/8d83e22c049f5fda045e617345063a87"},"modified":"2007-08-10T04:22:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:22:54","slug":"halo-3-is-popular-before-its-even-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Halo 3 is popular before it&#8217;s even available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In completely and utterly unsurprising news, <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teamxbox.com\/xbox\/14184\/Halo-3-FastestSelling-PreOrdered-Video-Game-in-History\/\">Halo 3 is the fastest-selling preordered video game in history<\/a><\/b>.   There are more than 1 million pre-orders for the game and a little more than six weeks to go before it gets released. My order is somewhere within those million preorders, and it just so happens that I have a few days break (purely by accident, I assure you) around that time. If you haven't ordered yours already (who not!?), check out this <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6927828.stm\">BBC hands on preview<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=h1qu2l\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=h1qu2l\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142712100\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In completely and utterly unsurprising news, <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teamxbox.com\/xbox\/14184\/Halo-3-FastestSelling-PreOrdered-Video-Game-in-History\/\">Halo 3 is the fastest-selling preordered video game in history<\/a><\/b>.   There are more than 1 million pre-orders for the game and a little more than six weeks to go before it gets released. My order is somewhere within those million preorders, and it just so happens that I have a few days break (purely by accident, I assure you) around that time. If you haven&#8217;t ordered yours already (who not!?), check out this <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6927828.stm\">BBC hands on preview<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=h1qu2l\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=h1qu2l\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142712100\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}