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Second Annual "Most Played Game Awards"



Raptr has announced the most-played games of 2012.

The awards take into account average individual playtime, average session length, and total playtime. 

Unsurprisingly, games like Skyrim, World of Warcraft, Modern Warfare 3, and League of Legends are maintaining their staying power, while Borderlands 2 takes its place in the awards as a new recipient. Loot goes a long way. What is surprising, however, is that Borderlands 2 saw 200 percent more total playtime than Diablo III did in their respective first months.

Check out the full list of awards below:

Most Played New Game – Borderlands 2
Most Played Pre-2012 Game – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Biggest Boost from User-Generated Content – Portal 2
Most Played Long-Awaited Sequel – Borderlands 2
No Bathroom Break – Borderlands 2 
Most Played XBLA Game – Minecraft 
Most Played New IP – Dragon’s Dogma 
Most Successful Paid to Free-to-Play Game – Star Wars: The Old Republic

For further-detailed rundowns of the games players were spending their time with this year, head over to Raptr

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Comments
  • MW3 isn't suprising... People say, " MW3 sucks, yet the play it 24/7 ".
  • Its not that surprising when most of us quickly realized how awful Diablo 3 truly was.
  • Im a little suprised about Dragons Dogma. Fun game but i dint think it had that kinda legs.
  • The ratio of people that hate mwf3 to people who play it is hilarious. seriously if you don't like a game, don't freaking play it
  • Raptr is an awesome app! But it constantly reminds me how much of my life I have wasted in Syrim and Minecraft.

  • No Skyrim?
  • "Games on the Wii and PS3 platform are not factored into these awards, due to data capturing restrictions." - From their website, maybe worth noting.
  • is anyone else a little surprised that dragons dogma beat out dishonored?
  • Personally for me: Most Played New Game – Borderlands 2 Most Played Pre-2012 Game – Dark Souls Biggest Boost from User-Generated Content – Half-Life (finally got into some mods) Most Played Long-Awaited Sequel - Max Payne 3 No Bathroom Break – Borderlands 2 Most Played XBLA Game – Trials Evolution Most Played New IP – Dishonored Most Successful Paid to Free-to-Play Game – Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Glad to see Dragon's Dogma up there.
  • I'd probably have to head to the site to figure out how they calculate this. Does it take into account people that don't play online/people that don't have access to the internet?
  • Man, they're monitoring our every move!!!

  • I can see why Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is on this list. The franchise really is played out.

    What's that? Oh...I see now. The "Most Played Game Awards". As in time spent playing the game. My bad...

    ...I love me some Call of Duty! :)

  • FINALLY!!! DRAGON'S DOGMA GETS SOME FREAKIN' RECOGNITION!! That game is awesome. Hahah sorry I yelled but I had enough of DD getting ignored!
  • Borderlands 2 is so damn good.

  • Awesome! I do love the Raptr client and community. You'll find my hours being logged there.
  • didnt expect that.

  • Portal 2 shouldn't count in my opinion for user generated content, it's just level designing and a few other things, which is really easy to do. Skyrim has over 30,000 mods (Not counting a lot of stuff, just mainly Steam, and the Nexus.) and it really jumped a lot. It's only been 10 months since the CK came out anyways. I just feel that user generated content should be much more than many depict.

    Most played game this year? Still Skyrim. I bought ME3, Dragon's Dogma, Dishonored, and Ragnarok Odyssey this year, and I am still playing Skyrim over those, but I do have 150 to 200 mods, 4k textures and Ultra settings which run at 50 FPS, (Speaking of which GTA IV is a horrible port because it will only go 20 FPS even though Skyrim can do that.) but I have been doing more modding then playing.
  • I think Mass Effect 3 was my most played game this year, especially when taking into account its multiplayer.
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