For someone who couldn’t care less about playing Halo 3, I certainly do love writing about it. Well Microsoft has announced Halo 3 smashed all media records pulling in $170 million in only 24 hours. This beats the $150 million opening weekend for Spider-Man 3 and the massive sales of Harry Potter books.

Of course, with video games costing $60 each, Halo 3 sold far less units than than these movies and books, but who’s counting. Still, Halo 3 sold an amazing 2.5 million copies in 24 hours and made September 25th the most active day on Xbox Live history. Don’t forget to eat people. And if anyone’s interested, I’ll be playing Viva Pinata.