March 31st 2009 3:18 pm PT

Not really a big shock that CoD:WaW is back on top thanks to the new map pack.

COD4 still going strong. How Many of you guys still play Gears regularly? I haven’t in a while = (

1 Call of Duty: WaW
2 Halo 3
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2

Just more proof Gears of War 2 sucks! It can’t even get to the top of the list. The top three games had BETAs and Gears didn’t. Oh well. Gears 3 better have a BETA in order for me to consider it.

Anyway, back to Fallout on Xbox 360 and PC .

Fallout is back. I didn’t DL the new content but am looking forward to Broken Steel.

Maybe it’s the editor in me, but why are some titles all capitalized?

I think Halo 3 will be back on top in another week or so when the Mythic Map pack goes up. Im surprised UNO rush beat peggle (peggle rules!). So will we see 2 Halo’s(halo 3 and ODST) and 3 call of dutys come november? (cod4, cod5, modern warfare 2…heard they are dropping the COD name on this one). That would take up half the list :p

Good to see CoD Waw on top for another week.

I was also shocked about UNO rush. I tried it, but didn’t see enough reason for me to buy it when I already have the original UNO. Peggle does rule! I have yet to buy it, but I will soon
Hopefully GoW2 will pick up next week with the recent release of the new maps today.

4. WORMS

wow cant believe people still playing that game!

Gears of War should be fixed by now

3 updates a charm

Wow, UNO RUSH topped Peggle!?!? Doesn’t matter. I’m still peggling my way past the challenges (beaten 35 of the 75) and running co-op with a friend (and other RE5 friends) in RE5. TMNT 1989!?!??! Um… Okayyyyyyy. QuickMatch time to complete the achievements!

6 GTA IV !

why still list Original Xbox? It’s never gonna change, no new titles popping up.

Also notable by their abscence from the Live list is the games from the ‘Hasbro Family Game Night’ debacle…. I guess we have given MS a better idea on where the line is on DLC pricing with this one…..

I’m glad to see that Hasbro’s Expensive Game Night hasn’t made it to the top 10 list. Almost every new arcade game makes 1st or close the week it’s released (and drops later) because it’s advertised on the 360 dashboard in the marketplace and spotlight channels.

Even though the FGN games costs 800 points it’s strange that it didn’t even make top 10 neither in it’s first or second week. I hope that the list is correct, cause then it seems that people actually didn’t buy those overpriced mini games.

Nice to see Peggle doing well. Great game. It’s also nice to see that Worms, Bomberman Live and Marble Blast Ultra also being in the Top 10 list regurarily. I love those three games.

You know, every week I see the big multiplayer oriented shooters invariably take the top 4 spots on live I grow a little more despondant as it becomes more and more clear that people don’t really want the inovation and the other charms that are abound in newer titles within other generas, but the same old gameplay as best delivered by the blockbuster F/TPS’s of yester year or before.

Man, it’s just a steady performance form the usual suspects. All great games 4 sure.

halo wars wars slip slippin away as predicted

Those lists are wrong. In the Community Games section there are actually games. That’s got to be a mistake.

IconicSoulJA- Gears 2 had a beta alright,all the people who bought it and have been playing online for the last half a year,lol.What a failure!It’s nice to see call of duty WaW and halo3 on top as usual.To bad game developers can’t pull their head outta their butt and make good games that resemble these hits.I wouldn’t cry copycat ,but I would probably buy it.

Quote from Major Nelson’s Twitter “If you listen to my show, you’ll know that The Dishwasher: Dead Samura[i] is coming to Arcade this week”

Yeah, and if you read his blog back when he announced Days of Arcade on here he said he’d post that weeks arcade game on here every Monday. He failed at that simple task this week AND last week. Funnily enough he managed to do it on Week 1 of the Days of Arcade promotion – for Hasbro “didnt even Make the Top 10 two weeks running because it’s clearly overpriced garbage” Family Game Ripoff.

Shame…..bad shill is bad.

What’s the issue with doing full version activity for all purchased?

I really doubt Gears 2 is higher than RE:5. I still cannot believe that it is even in the top 5. I’m going to put my tin-foil hat on and say that I wouldn’t be surprised if some numbers were fudged to keep Gears 2 in the top spots.

yea…L4D is going up again…love it…keep it playing ppl!

As it was already said, the only reason that Hasbro’s Family Game Night isn’t showing up in the Arcade list is because the main game is actually just a FREE loading program, and all the individual games for it are counted as DLC (“Game Add-ons”). So the only way we’re ever going to see how much it’s actually selling is if Major creates a Top 10 DLC Purchases list, which is a pretty good idea, considering how popular and numerous it is these days.

RC-AirSim top in the community games, has no one played Super Cow, real fun side scroller, brings back memories of the original Sonic games.

MrMFloyd, you’ve voiced your concern about Major’s posting habbits, and he will take the feedback. Do everybody a favor and stop spamming up unrelated blog posts.

Thanks,
litheon

@ Used To Be:
I play it a bunch. There are hardly any times where I am not able to find a match within 5 minute anymore. It has been improved.
On a side note, there were almost 5 times the amount of people on Halo 3 last night then on COD:WAW. 300 000 to 65 000.

Why single me out Litheon? Didn’t see you dishing out warnings when last week Uno Rush was announced and loads of people started “spamming up unrelated blog posts” about how slow their marketplace has been since NXE launched. I wasn’t one of them btw.

And what about that gimp warrengobline who goes on rants on here about whatever comes to mind on any post he happens to be viewing at the time?

Wow….. MN said he would post the days of arcade titles every Monday. He’s done it 1 week out of 3. Not a great start, and hardly ‘promoting the promotion’ – sorry but I think that’s worth mentioning.

WE WANT COMMUNITY GAMES IN EUROPE!!!
Sorry for screaming but someone must deliver this message of the surpressed, forsaken Europeans.

lol you tell em MrMFloyd.

Umm sorry I only hit enter once. Blame the site not me.

Hey Major Nelson (and litheon et al), I just wanted to give a belated thanks for posting community games’ top ten. I think the general sentiment right now is that CG is still an under-informed area of the 360 and that more should be done to help potential players separate the wheat from the chaff.

If I may be so bold as to offer a few thoughts on the subject (and notably few feel guilty here to do so): At the very least it would be great to see better community games-oriented stuff in “Inside Xbox”. The only big things I’ve seen mentioned there were notoriously non-games (Fireplace? Rumble Massager? Boo.) and there certainly doesn’t appear to be any sort of reliable schedule for community games posts. IMNSHO, perhaps MSFT should consider awarding a small Inside Xbox contract to XNA Roundup (xnaroundup.com); Nickthedude might not yet be “the next Major Nelson”, but he currently seems like the most enthusiastic Community Games supporter I’ve seen and I think that’s something that Community Games needs front and center…

@MACPH1ST0 Bingo. That’s what I said last week when it didn’t make the list but nobody wanted to believe me. The Hasbro games will count as DLC so they will never show up on the list.

@MrMFloyd While you’re far from the only commenter on this blog that’s guilty of spamming an opinion/request/complaint in unrelated posts, that doesn’t make you any less guilty.

good to see the Hasbro family thing hasnt made the arcade top ten again,is that to be considered a flop then?,will this maybe make them rethink their prices?…i still can’t believe they tried to sell connect 4 for 800 points!!

Left 4 Dead has new DLC coming in a few weeks as well(there is rumour thats is free)so hopefully the game will stay in the top ten for a bit longer

Yeah Mcmax3000, I was pretty much paraphrasing your comment from then since you’re the only other person commenting who’s pointed that out so far.

No SF4 again? damm that was fast.

@MrMFloyd, because eight of your last ten posts have been in one way or another complaining about Major announcing the deal of the week in a place other than in a dedicated blog post. You’ve made your point already. While comments about marketplace downloads being slow, content being over priced, and other similar comments may be annoying they are still useful for Major to pass on to the proper product teams. So like I said previously, please stop spamming unrelated blog posts and trust me this is your last warning.

@sneh, that was actually you pressing refresh after submitting your comment which causes your browser to resend form data; if you either have the warning indicating it will post back to the server again disabled or you just click “Resend” or the equivalent anyway.

Someone’s getting a timeout. Don’t sweat it guys (MACPH1ST0, Mcmax3000) some people are just dumb.

Interesting Litheon qouted you MrMFloyd, cos I was getting annoyed with you. Gears 2 map pack “MrFloyd complaining about something that’s no related to the map pack”, Alien H “MrFloyd is complaining …and so on”. Who cares, they should ban you for a month. Noone wrote back to you, noone noticed you. Stop it goddamniT!!! GTA IV again only sixth

Wow, people actually bent over and took the UNO Rush price hike? FAAAAAAAANtastic. Who are these people?
Meanwhile, as McMax said, people ARE buying the Hasbro pap, they just aren’t showing up. And for the record I didn’t pay for it, I won codes. So there.
As stated last week, I think we need a top 10 add-ons chart.

Yeah Major could we get a Top 10 Game Add-ons (purchased) list? There are a lot of us who are interested in seeing how much DLC is selling. You could even do that instead of the Original Xbox list, since that rarely ever changes any more (unless there’s a new game released as a downloadable Xbox Original).

Dog, I fell out of the Top 10. I hope to be back after my much needed update.

since the update i have been kinda enjoying gears2 abit more.. wow Call of Dutys are doing some gd job.

Sweet its nice to see Hasbro Family Game Night fall on its face
for being the blatant con that it is

Go EA

Off topic posting on a blog? Whatever next. Nice try at being moderator litheon, not bad for a glorified codemonkey.

I’ll be keeping an eye out to make sure everyone keeps exactly to the topic or expect you to dish out more of your unnecessary warnings !

(NOT)

Nice to see none of the $10 per game Hasbro Family Game Night on that list. Also Watchmen is not even on list. I can only hope that UNO RUSH drops off next week. I put a freeze on all DLC. Last thing I bought was GTA L&D. I have over 4200 just waiting.

Something else to add. There is A LOT of great games on XBLA, it’s just sad that they want to double or even triple the price. MOST people will not even see the full great game that it is….because of price.

Good to see Gears 2 climbing a little, it is so much easier to find matches now and I am experiencing hardly any lag at all.

It’s still going to take something special and a whole lot of convincing people of the improvements to crash that 3 though, quite unlikely.

Wow, SF4 gone in the blink of an eye.

Good solid top 10 this week. Halo 3 will bounce back when Mythic is released to the masses. Modern Warfare 2 will take #1 when it’s released this fall. Can’t wait!

Speaking of, I’m still curious why Call of Duty: World at War changed its title a few weeks back from “CoD: World at War” to “Call of Duty: WaW”. Now that Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 is now ‘tentatively’ just “Modern Warfare 2″ I wonder what it will be in the dash. “CoD: Modern Warfare 2″? “Call of Duty: MW2″? “Modern Warfare 2″?

Anyway, like every week, please expand the Xbox 360 top 10 to a top 25 and please retire the original Xbox top 10! Thank you.

Who wants to give me a blow job?

Tried playing Gears again this weekend. Something about 3rd person Multiplayer I just can’t get into. Same with GTA multiplayer, but there the DLC and all sidequests and stuff make it still playable in single player. Love the Gears single player and the story, but since it is so short, I can’t get behind it. Plus it’s still buggy. Sadly there isn’t a whole heck of a lot on the horizon this year right now. ODST and Wolfenstein are the big ones for me, at least until we see some actual gameplay from Bioshock 2. Hopefully some of the movie tie-ins and 3rd person games will be actually good (I’m looking at you Wolverine and Prototype).

The new title update and ranking system for Gears of War 2 certainly helped. Maybe there’s a future for the game after all.

I’m probably going to trade in Call of Duty: World at War. Just not fun to me.

Mythic map pack on Thursday (for those of you who didn’t receive a code via Halo Wars Limited Collector’s Edition or Bungie.net)!