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Xbox Live's Top Games Of 2011
Microsoft has revealed the top list of most played games on Xbox Live for 2011. As you can imagine, Call of Duty is a monster.
As detailed on Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb's blog, Call of Duty makes up five of the top 20 most played games on the service for the year. Below is the rest of the data, which includes Arcade titles and Indie games. The games data is based on unique users connect to Xbox Live or full versions purchased between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Modern Warfare 2
- Halo: Reach
- Battlefield 3
- Skyrim
- Gears of War 3
- FIFA 12
- FIFA Soccer 11
- Madden NFL 12
- GTA IV
- NBA 2K11
- Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
- Call of Duty 4
- Battlefield 3 Beta
- Halo 3
- Gears of War 2
- Forza Motorsport 4
- Red Dead Redemption
- Call of Duty: WaW
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
- Pinball FX2
- Full House Poker
- Castle Crashers
- Fruit Ninja Kinect
- From Dust
- Trials HD
- Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
- DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
- Torchlight
- Toy Soldiers: Cold War
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Portal: Still Alive
- Bastion
- LIMBO
- Game Room
- DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
- Peggle
- Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale
- Battlefield 1943
- Beyond Good & Evil HD
The above list is based on full versions purchased.
Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
- FortressCraft Chapter 1
- Total Miner: Forge
- The Impossible Game
- Avatar Paintball
- Toy Stunt Bike
- CastleMiner Z
- I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
- Avatar Legends
- CastleMiner
- Miner Dig Deep
- Avatar Laser Wars
- Bird Assassin
- Voice Changer 360
- Nuclear Wasteland
- Avatar Karting
- Zombie Estate
- Avatar Drop
- Baby Maker Extreme 2
- College Lacrosse 2011
- The $1 Zombie Game
The above list is based on full versions purchased.
Games for Windows LIVE Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
- Age of Empires Online
- GTA IV
- Batman Arkham City
- Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
- F1 2011
- DiRT 3
- F1 2010
- Fable III
- Street Fighter IV
- Resident Evil 5
- AoE Online – Beta
- Fallout 3
- Colin McRae : Dirt 2
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Bioshock 2
- Bulletstorm
- Section 8: Prejudice
- Red Faction Guerrilla
- Dead Rising 2
- Operation Flashpoint Red River
Windows Phone Games (based on UU’s)
- Angry Birds
- Fruit Ninja
- PvZ
- Need for Speed Undercover
- Full House Poker
- MONOPOLY
- Doodle Jump
- Bejeweled LIVE
- Rise Of Glory
- geoDefense
- ilomilo
- Assassin’s Creed – Altaïr’s Chronicles HD
- Sonic 4 Episode I
- Tetris
- Fable: Coin Golf
- Hydro Thunder GO
- The Harvest
- Uno
- Tentacles
- The Sims 3
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Indie Games, full versions purchased during 2011.
[Source: Major Nelson]
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