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Call of Duty: Black Ops

Black Ops Tops Xbox Live Activity Charts for 2011
Written Monday, January 09, 2012 By Lee Bradley
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Microsoft has released a list of the most popular titles on Xbox Live in 2011, and guess what? Black Ops was the number one title, based on unique users. Surprise!

In fact, such was Call of Duty's continued dominance of the gaming landscape, the top three most played games all belonged to Activision's behemoth FPS series. Modern Warfare 3 and Modern Warfare 2 sit in second and third place respectively. Maybe Kojima's got a point, eh?

The top couple of games in the XBLA charts, meanwhile, suggest that navigating and purchasing titles in the marketplace 'aint no thang for casual users any more. Pinball FX2 and Full House Poker reigned supreme there. Wasn't always like that, folks. FortressCraft Chapter 1 took top spot in the Xbox Live Indie Chart.

It should be noted that the charts (below courtesy of Major Nelson) represent activity. If your Xbox was plugged into the internet over the last year and you played a title, either in single-player or multiplayer, then you contributed to that game's total. Only the Xbox Live Indie Games chart uses full game sales as its basis. Goddit?

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles

  • 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

  • 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

Top Indie Games

  • 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

Games for Windows LIVE Top LIVE Titles

  • 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



 
 

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Comment #1 by macd
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:12:43 AM
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I think Skyrim is probably my most played game this year. My latest save is about 130 hours, and I probably lost about another 10 hours in deaths and reloads etc. That's longer than any other 360 game except Fallout 3 I think. I played Fallout 3 through twice though.

I think torchlight would be top of my XBLA play time but I'm not so sure about that.


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Comment #2 by TrishTheDish
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:15:53 AM
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I am SHOCKED W@W is that high. Did they finally get rid of all the hackers and make it playable again?


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Comment #3 by morris69
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:20:35 AM
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@Number 2
As long as it says Call of Duty, people will play it.


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Comment #4 by Veedrock
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:20:44 AM
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I'm actually surprised Gears of War 3 isn't higher, if only because a lot of people idle certain medals for hours on end. Multiply those hours by thousands of people doing it and you've got some serious game time o.o

I'm also quite surprised that DR: Case Zero is in the list of XBLA titles. Even if it did go on sale a few times, the game isn't all that large, you couldn't stretch it out to more than a few hours play, unlike games like Castle Crasher and Pinball FX!

Also since when is Game Room XBLA?


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Comment #5 by Ace IIXII
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:20:54 AM
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CoD4 was unplayable last I checked about 2 months ago... still pretty high up on the list though. Cannot believe MW3 ranked that high for coming out so late in the year.


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Comment #6 by Vigor
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:32:28 AM
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I don't own a copy of black ops, never played it.


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Comment #7 by Texpecypc
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:40:28 AM
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GOW3 - 1487 HRS. :)


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Comment #8 by Rancidblaze
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:43:43 AM
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@#2

No, the hackers are the reason it made the list


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Comment #9 by head0r Inc
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:51:25 AM
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Loved Black Ops.. MW3 is kind of shit due all to the issues.. oh well..


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Comment #10 by tigersrule
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:58:11 AM
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@2 Tell me about it. I played it about a year ago, and I kept joining the same match over and over after I left. I looked at how many people were on, and there were only 15k. That list can't be right.


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Comment #11 by kmpdk14
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:15:39 AM
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fantastic to see age of empires online leadin the on live games, wasted heaps of time with that due to the love i have built up for the series especially age of empires 3, great hit for the new studio after ensembles unfortunate shut down!


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Comment #12 by LickableLemons7
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:21:38 AM
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Glad to see Halo 3 still up there. Now I feel like playing it again.


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Comment #13 by Joker0fLife
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:26:02 AM
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Next time my friend says "I can't see how you can constantly go back and play Reach", I'll tell him to look at this list and figure it out for himself.

On a sidenote: I'm surprised BF3 and Skyrim aren't higher than what they are...


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Comment #14 by HugTheBear
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:27:47 AM
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Black Ops > MW3


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Comment #15 by TSG Dwaggie
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:42:01 AM
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Skyrim > All Call of Duty.


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Comment #16 by TSG Dwaggie
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:43:03 AM
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@16 To prove my point. Skyrim's been out, what, two months? And it's #6? If it was out the entire year, it would have been top, no problem.


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Comment #17 by the bears beard
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:54:48 AM
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Good to see GOW2 still going strong!


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Comment #18 by jtr1gg3r
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 04:56:18 AM
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Surprised to see COD WaW even on that list. Everytime I play it theres hardly anyone online :S

Aaaaaaannnyway, I don't really think I'm surprised by the results at all.


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Comment #19 by Rickmassacre
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:01:18 AM
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5 call of duty's on the list
haters gonna hate :')


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Comment #20 by Original
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:05:12 AM
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Lol did anyone else notice the Battlefield 3 Beta being there? :')


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Comment #21 by Space Cadet
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:11:22 AM
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A couple more years and there'll be nothing BUT call of duty.


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Comment #22 by Whiistler
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:33:21 AM
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I think people are reading the chart wrong. It's not the total time played of the game, just highest amount of unique users. So there could be 10 people that pop in MW3 for a one time thing, but 2 people that play Reach for weeks. So MW3 would be rated higher just because more people "played" it.

So it's not really good to go by if you want to see how much cumulative time each game has clocked.


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Comment #23 by Deathmaker 3Ti
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:36:19 AM
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It's nice to see Halo up there, just under COD


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Comment #24 by tigersrule
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 05:53:08 AM
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@17 Well considering MW3 and Skyrim were released mere days apart, I don't think that would be the case. MW3 would still be higher. Not saying I agree with it. Just stating the facts. :)


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Comment #25 by DecadentBeaver
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 06:31:02 AM
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@6. I don't own any Call of Duty games, and have no desire to own one. Never been much of a fan of FPS games either, although some are good.

Onm another note, I contributed to that list with Skyrim and Trials. 2 great games.


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Comment #26 by StillTIPPIN187
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 06:47:45 AM
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MW3 gained second from only being out 2 months before the year ended.. not bad.

Blops is a PoS..


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Comment #27 by exsiben
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 06:52:58 AM
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@23 Thank you. Either people don't read the whole article (saying what you said) or the author added it due to confusion.

With that information, pretty impressive for Skyrim, people expect shooters to sell tons, but a single player? Very nice.


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Comment #28 by Off The WaLL
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 07:13:20 AM
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2nd place
holy #$%& from only being out 2 months?
too many players i guess

2012 = Mw3

& i don't like it


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Comment #29 by Corpse87
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 07:33:27 AM
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@29 who cares what you do not like? I wasted a lot of my life on this damn xbox the past 3 years


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Comment #30 by Mr Matty
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 07:46:28 AM
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This is a classic example why the wait for the next gta is always a good thing.
The fact the game is still on that list is a huge achievement in its self.
For me nothing tops Gta ever
Its even better that its that high up too.


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Comment #31 by Verdinial
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 07:51:31 AM
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@17 - You fail to realise MW3 came out, what? 3 days before Skyrim and it was above it.

I love Skyrim, yeah. But if MW2 beat it, and that's been out for years now, MW3 would easily beat it considering it came second and its only been out three days more than Skyrim.


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Comment #32 by Opiate42
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 08:23:44 AM
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Black Ops and WaW were more fun to play online than MW2 or MW3, which are both broken frustrating disasters.



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Comment #33 by STONE DEVIL
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 08:51:24 AM
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I'm proud to say that I'm not part of the top 2 shitty titles from Activision. Both are more glitch filled and broken that MW2. I didn't think that was possible. Gears 3 all the way.


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Comment #34 by Brengun
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 09:47:40 AM
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@23 Exactly, I don't think people realise that it doesn't matter how long you've played a game for, just that you've played it. I think it goes without saying that popular doesn't = best.


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Comment #35 by Luis Ownz
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 10:27:46 AM
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Call of Duty is so lame though...


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Comment #36 by Luis Ownz
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 10:37:07 AM
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@4 Game Room has always been XBLA. Derp.


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Comment #37 by ash356
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 11:14:25 AM
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@34
Can I please stress this: On three separate occasions, I have seen Stone Devil bitching and insulting CoD. Yet when I looked at his Gamertag, Black Ops and MW2 were his last played games. On ALL THREE occasions.
So, basically, he's just trying to look cool. And failing. Dramatically. Which I find somewhat hilarious.


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Comment #38 by Verdinial
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 01:49:06 PM
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@38 - That my friend, is the majority of internet users summed up in a few words. Pathetic, isn't it? I just ignore people like that now, like most people ^_^


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Comment #39 by ViNyLek
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 02:14:58 PM
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I find it ironic that GoW3 sits at #7 having few months advantage over other games that are above it and came out this year... I guess Epic fucked up more than I thought, by making it like CoD... I still love it though! just not as much anymore...


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Comment #40 by Dr Popodopolus
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 03:02:42 PM
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How can they add the travesty that was the Battlefield 3 BETA on this list.

Not only because it's not even a full game, but because it was a steaming pile of shit, and probably the worst 'beta-demo' to ever curse my console.

Long live Call of Duty at the end of the day.

I plan on getting Black Ops back soon, I kinda miss it, it's weird.

Haven't played MW3 properly for maybe a month, it's not that exciting online after week 1 or 2 and the maps are mundane.


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Comment #41 by DRNoob
Monday, January 09, 2012 @ 07:51:23 PM
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I have to admit: the very first month of a CoD game's release has everyone on my friend's list playing it, but then after that, no one plays it. How the hell is it #1, let alone #2 and #3?


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Comment #42 by Highvoltage112
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 @ 01:11:26 AM
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Isn't it simple more sales = higher rank


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Comment #43 by Matturtle
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 @ 03:58:03 PM
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just becuase one game is above another, doesn't make it better, just means it's sold more. im a lover of both COD and Eldar Scrolls, and all the hate between the two gets on my wick. my theory on why COD has sold more is when i look at my friends list there are two types of gamers, first there are gamers like me who will play both COD and Skyrim, then there are gamers who will play judt COD on multiplayer endlessly and nothing else. so of course COD will sell more.


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Comment #44 by Magicman10893
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 @ 08:04:33 PM
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@38

It reminds me of the picture showing all the members of the "Boycott Modern Warfare 2" club on Steam were all playing MW2 the day it came out.


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Comment #45 by xxthegodofwarx
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 @ 05:59:18 PM
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halo 4 will return halo to the top spot next year...


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