Epic Ready To Have Sales Records Smashed By Halo 3

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Epic's Mark Rein is in his own words 'Preparing to get his game and *** kicked by Halo 3' but in a good way. Epic have already prepared to relinquish their sales crown to Bungie and the most highly awaited games sequel of the year Halo 3.

Gears of War went triple platinum (that three million units sold) in just ten weeks of the shooter going on sale in November 2006. "Like blockbuster titles from Microsoft's Halo franchise and the Grand Theft Auto and Zelda franchises, Gears of War is tracking to be one of the best-selling video games of all time and has established itself as the most successful new IP of the next generation.

However Mark Rein had this to say:

All those records we broke with Gears of War are going down on September 25.We've had a nice nine, ten months of being the record holder, and now we're going to get our *** kicked. In a good way.

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Gears records "going down on September 25" - CVG.com