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Call of Duty: Black Ops II GameStop sales top 1 million on day 1

Gamers wait in a Game Stop store in

Photo credit: Getty Images | Gamers wait in a Game Stop store in Universal City, Calif. to buy "Call of Duty: Black Ops II." (Nov. 12, 2012)

GameStop Corp., the video-game retailer, sold more than 1 million copies of "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" Wednesday, positioning the new title from Activision Blizzard Inc. to break sales records.

"'Black Ops II' is shaping up to be our biggest game launch of all time," Tony Bartel, president of the Grapevine, Texas-based chain, said Wednesday in an e-mail. "GameStop sold more than 1 million...

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