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Article: 'Duty' calls and fans responds
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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BLOOMINGTON - Don't panic if you saw an unexpectedly high number
of men in their 20s and 30s missing from work or school Tuesday.
It's not the H1N1 flu.
The latest installment of the popular "Call of Duty" video game
series went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and hundreds of Twin City
gamers lined up for hours outside stores to get a copy. Across the
U.S., the game's publisher planned 10,000 midnight openings for what
could be the top entertainment launch ever - movies included.
Alex Hudson, 20, of Bloomington showed up three hours early and
was first to get his copy of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" at
GameStop's Veterans Parkway location, where the line wrapped around
the Washington ...