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The Spokesman-Review

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Sales, in millions of dollars, in the first 24 hours after Microsoft’s “Halo 2” video game (above) was released in November — a figure that outstrips the opening weekend box office for the hit movie “The Incredibles.”

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Expected global video game sales, in billions of dollars, by 2008, more than double the sales in 2003, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

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Anticipated annual percent growth in the video game market, vastly outstripping the expected growth in the film industry (7.5 percent a year), television distribution (7.1 percent) and music (2 percent).