Halo 3 Midnight Launch Cancelled In London

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Apparently Westminister council have told stores that they wont be granted permission to open at Midnight to start sales of the upcoming Xbox 360 blockbuster Halo 3. The council fear that too many people will show up and cause chaos on the streets of London and the Bungie record breaker will quite likely be bigger than the PS3 launch back in March in their opinion.

The Head of gaming and entertainment at Microsoft had this to say:

Originally Posted by Stephen McGill

Halo 3 launches in the UK on Sept. 26, and although we are not going to be running any official midnight opening events along London's Oxford Street (due to from Westminster Council concerns of huge crowds) we are pleased to confirm that over 1,000 retailers around London and the rest of the UK will be opening up at midnight to ensure fans can get their copy of Halo 3 it as soon as humanly possible - including many Game, Gamestation, HMV and Virgin Megastores stores, and of those that can't open at midnight many will be opening early on the Wednesday 26th too. o celebrate the launch, on Tuesday 25th Halo 3 is taking over the BFI IMAX cinema in Waterloo (UK's biggest cinema screen) where lucky fans and a number of top celebrities will be going head to head playing Halo 3 on the giant screen. Tickets to the red carpet premiere event can be won at Xbox.com | Xbox.com Home, along with giveaways in The Daily Telegraph this Saturday and on Kiss FM next Tuesday.

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Halo 3 Midnight launch in London cancelled - CVG.com