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One of our Best Buy moles has provided us with a list of Best Buy locations that will be holding midnight launch events for Halo 3. Eighty-eight stores have been chosen for this honor and there will even be some additional freebies to go along with your purchases. New SKUs show that promotional materials will be a Halo 3 Inflatable Chair and a mysterious "Official Launch Kit" the contents of which are currently unknown.
If you live in the Jacksonville, FLA area, our buddy Bobby the Best Buy Guy invites you down to the store on Atlantic Blvd. for what is promised to be the best of the best of Halo 3 midnight events with plenty of fun and excitement to keep you going in what's sure to be a long wait in line.
make the jump to check out the full list of stores.
Click on the image to see a readable version of the list.
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Cool theres one by my house! ill probrably go, maybe, if i get more info on the new "Official Launch Kit"
I'm going to the Jacksonville, FL launch on Atlantic blvd. Hope its good, can't wait any longer for the launch :D
now we need UK details ¬_¬
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New York :)
Or you can just preorder it on Amazon and have it show up in the mail the day of launch...
Aussie details PLZ!
Sweet, the Waldorf, MD store is on there. I already preordered at Gamestop, but I think I might stop by for the promo stuff.
Only one here in Iowa which is odd. But I am glad, seeing as how I never preordered from anywhere.
I bet the "Official Launch Kit" is either some special stuff for the 360 like themes and pictures, or it's a bunch of stickers and stuff like that. Either way, it'd be kinda cool to have.
I see a spot for Memphis on there. But I won't go. Halo 3 is going to be a rental for me. Maybe 2 rentals?
What about us Canadians? We want a midnight launch too!
Wonder what the official launch kit is, though. Comes with special Mountain Dew? No thanks.
Is this Microsoft's doing I wonder or Best Buy's?
If it's MS then they sure are pumping out mechandise and trying to make a pretty penny with just one game...of course that's all MS really owns that's big at the moment...
If it's Best Buy, I could say the same I guess...
I like how there are 3 Houston and 2 Dallas stores but none in San Antonio or Austin.
Or you could go to any Gamestop...
@JGab:
It's not that rare to have midnight launches for big games...I mean stores do it all the time for Blizzard games. And I am pretty sure Halo 2 had a midnight launch. It is possible to be a Nintendo fanboy and not make dumb comments about rival companies. Wii60 it up.
There'll be a midnight opening in a small town in Ireland right.... Right?!?!
@lafond66: But then you're going to Gamestop.
is it just best buy that's providing these launch kits? cause the nearest store on this list is an hour away.
nothing with gamestop?
@Strider_Seven:
You would have to check with Gamestop. This is just a list of Best Buy locations.
or just go to 7-eleven at midnight, since they're always open.
Nothing for New Mexico... :(
Is Gamestop or Hastings doing anything?
@moopcow: there is one, it's on SE military drive in San Antonio at the bottom of the list. When I click the list it gets cut off so you have to squint and look at the cropped pic on this page for the complete list.
@vagrantwade:
Both West Des Moines stores are having the Midnight opening.
Oh Best Buy - Hawaii, where art thou?
Someone mentioned UK so just thought I'd mention that AFAIK most GAME and Gamestation stores in the UK will be doing midnight launches simply as a matter of course, as with console launches and Halo 2/GTA games.
My store certainly is, but I'm not working this one. Wii launch was a great experience with lots of people looking excited and a great buzz in the air, PS3 launch put me off with loads of kids getting way too much money spent on them when it wasn't even their birthday or Xmas. Neither system had many games worth playing at launch, the PS3 buyers just seemed really gloomy :(
New Yark? I didn't know we had a new state.
I love (and by love, I mean hate) how the Chicago stores aren't even in Chicago.
the city of industry best buy is where i bought my ps2....way back when...@vagrantwade:
yea halo 2 had a midnight opening ..ALOT of people at the carson store i was at...
@y2julio: Hey. Stop ragging on us New Yarkers. Southern California has seceded from Northern California, forming the state of New Yark. It's nice to see we're not forgotten.
@Kirbytheslayer: Seriously, there are tons of typos. Do I live in Los A~geles?
Or los An eles?
After the crap they gave me during the Xbox 360 launch and the PS3 launch, Im never camping at BestBuy again.
i wouldnt get excited about that "official launch kit" thing....it might be a bar of soap, a small can of axe, and oxy pads?
@mikeluisortega: Or click lower on the list.
@CONFUSEDgam3r:
Yea, the Gamestop on Coors is opening at midnight as is the EB in Cottonwood mall.
I preordered months ago at the GS on Coors by Target. I'll be there midnight
Cool! ill See my fellow denver kotakuites at park meadows!
Wow...
Thanks to some connections in the Swiss retails bussines, I will be getting mine the same day as the US launch...
Luckily, I manage my own store. We're having an H3 midnight launch, and I'll be one of the lucky few who gets H3 before everyone else. :)
It's Best Buy, so the "launch kit" is probably nothing more than information on what else you need to buy to maximize your purchase... like a service plan on the game, extra controllers, extra memory cards, etc. Typical Best Buy BS in other words.
They gave out "launch guides" during the ps3 launch too. It was a 10 page magazine that described the PS3 (with innacurate information), advertisements for GamePro (a horrible mag btw), descriptions (again, innacurate) on upcoming games and of course information about service plans/etc.
Bestbuy sucks when it comes to games.
@Mezodon:
lol a service plan for the game.
well, wouldn't you know it, my hometown get's a mention here on Kotaku, and all I got is a lousy....hey I didn't get anything.
Hmm, must tell my friend about this, he will just love it since there is going to be one in my area. Even though I am not much of a Halo fan, it good though to see things like this.
I"M GOING TO THE MIDNIGHT 7-11 LAUNCH! GOT MY COPY RESERVED!^#*@(@$#*($)@
@GalacticAE: Well thanks for telling me :) I live in the Valley though so that's kind of a hassle for me; being without a car and all...
I wish the Best Buy I work at would have a midnight opening. I was pissed when I didn't see my store number on that list a month ago!
Yay for pooe qualit? OCR softwaree!~
"Official Launch Kit"...i can't help but think that it contains some kind of useless Halo 3 trinket (decal or sticker)
@lafond66:
"Would you like to pre-order any games while you are here? Halo3? Oh wait..."
Better start waiting in line now. The media needs people to laugh at since there are no Star Wars movies coming out. I bet they'll even hand out some awesome paper hats! ^^
People that wait in lines for unlimited mass produced goods have something wrong with them.
Best Buy 586 South Hills/Bethel Park Pennsylvania will be open at midnight, I'm on their Geeksquad and we've known about it for a while now.
Like anyone is really going to sell out of Halo 3. I didn't bother to preorder it. I am just gonna roll outta bed on launch day and pick it up at either Target or Walmart. Don't believe the hype. There will be plenty for all!