Fool Video: A Halo Effect for Microsoft and Video Game Stocks?

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Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Halo 3 has officially arrived. What will it mean for Microsoft investors? What will it mean for video-game makers such as Activision (Nasdaq: ATVI), Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS), and Take-Two (Nasdaq: TTWO)? Will there be a halo effect for retailers such as GameStop (NYSE: GME), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), and Target (NYSE: TGT)? In this installment of "Fool Video," Managing Editor LouAnn DiCosmo talks Halo with Halo-playing Motley Fool analyst Seth Jayson.

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