Halo Named “Video Game of the Year”

Xbox Smash Hit Sweeps Top Honors at Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony

It’s official. “Halo™” for the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft, is the most honored game of the year. “Halo” scored a clean sweep of the top awards at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) 5th Annual Awards Show last night in Las Vegas. Awards were determined by a vote of the Academy’s membership, which honored “Halo” with the following:

• Game of the Year (all platforms)

• Console Game of the Year

• Console Action/Adventure Game of the Year

• Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering

Another Xbox title was singled out by the Academy, “Oddworld™: Munch’s Oddysee” received the Outstanding Achievement in Animation Award. The stellar evening for Microsoft Game Studios was rounded out as MicrosoftÒ “Flight Simulator 2002” took home Computer Simulation Game of the Year. Other Microsoft games to receive nominations this year were: “Project Gotham Racing™” for Xbox; “Microsoft Train Simulator™”; “MechWarrior™ 4”; “Black Knight™” and “Asherson’s Call™: Dark Majesty”.

Xbox ( http://www.xbox.com/ ) is Microsoft’s future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in North America and Japan, and will ship in Europe and Australia on March 14, 2002.

Microsoft Game Studios is a leading worldwide games company with three core businesses: games development and publishing, the Microsoft Xbox video game system, and Zone.com. Zone.com ( http://www.zone.com/  ) is the Internet’s largest game site.

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