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Microsoft Reveals Live Activity For Early November
Microsoft's Major Nelson has revealed a bunch of stats from earlier this month, which is sure to be interesting to people who enjoy bunches of stats. Especially for people who are oddly fixated on things that happened the week of November 8.
First up is Xbox Live activity. In its first week, Call of Duty: Black Ops wrenched the title from older sibling Modern Warfare 2, while Halo: Reach watched on from third place. Here's that raw data:
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on unique users)
1 Call of Duty: Black Ops
2 Modern Warfare 2
3 Halo: Reach
4 FIFA Soccer 11
5 Fable III
6 Fallout: New Vegas
7 Call of Duty: WaW
8 Madden NFL 11
9 Call of Duty 4
10 Halo 3
11 NBA 2K11
12 GTA IV
13 Red Dead Redemption
14 Gears of War 2
15 Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
16 Kinect Adventures!
17 Medal of Honor
18 NHL 11
19 Forza Motorsport 3
20 FIFA 10
Scott Pilgrim, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Guwange were the most popular XBLA games during that period.
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME
2 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
3 Guwange
4 Super Meat Boy
5 Faery: Legends of Avalon
6 DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
7 Plants vs. Zombies
8 RISK: FACTIONS
9 THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH
10 LIMBO
11 Trials HD
12 Peggle
13 Castle Crashers
14 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode I
15 Bloody Good Time
16 Sonic Adventure
17 Game Room
18 Snoopy Flying Ace
19 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2
20 Family Game Night
**Combined sales of all Game Room titles
Here's how indie games stacked up:
Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 Nuclear Wasteland
2 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
3 radiangames Fireball
4 THE ZOMBIE SHOTGUN MASSACRE 2
5 The Impossible Game
6 Get Rich or Die Gaming
7 The TEMPURA of the DEAD
8 Avatar Racedrome
9 radiangames Fluid
10 Baby Maker Extreme
11 Avatar Drop
12 Miner Dig Deep
13 Avatar Showdown
14 Physics Sandbox 2
15 Breath of Death VII
16 Home Run Challenge
17 radiangames Inferno
18 Avatar Ninja!
19 Zombie Estate
20 Game 35
Finally, here's a look at the top Games for Windows titles. One glance at this thing tells you that either PC gamers are an oddly nostalgic crew, or this Games for Windows thing isn't going so well for Microsoft...
Games for Windows Top LIVE Titles (based on unique users)
1 GTA IV
2 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
3 F1 2010
4 Street Fighter IV
5 Fallout 3
6 Colin McRae : Dirt 2
7 Resident Evil 5
8 Dead Rising 2
9 Halo 2
10 Bioshock 2
11 Red Faction Guerrilla
12 Lost Planet 2
13 Batman: Arkham Asylum
14 Gears of War
15 Tinker
16 FlatOut UC
17 Blacklight: Tango Down
18 Quantum of Solace
19 Battlestations: Pacific
20 Fuel
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