May 12th 2011 11:02 am PT

LIVE Activity for week of May 2

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1   Call of Duty: Black Ops
2   Modern Warfare 2
3   Halo: Reach
4   FIFA Soccer 11
5   NBA 2K11
6   GTA IV
7   Mortal Kombat
8   Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
9   Call of Duty 4
10 Red Dead Redemption
11 Halo 3
12 Gears of War 2
13 Portal 2
14 Call of Duty: WaW
15 NHL 11
16 Forza Motorsport 3
17 Madden NFL 11
18 Bulletstorm
19 Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
20 Fallout: New Vegas

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)

1   Outland
2   Castlevania Harmony of Despair
3   Portal: Still Alive
4   Pinball FX2
5   Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
6   Full House Poker
7   Section 8: Prejudice
8   DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
9   The Fancy Pants Adventures
10 Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury
11 DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
12 MOON DIVER
13 Castle Crashers
14 The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
15 Might & Magic Clash of Heroes
16 Trials HD
17 Game Room
18 Torchlight
19 TROUBLE WITCHES NEO!
20 Street Fighter II’ HF
The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 FortressCraft Chapter 1
2 The Impossible Game
3   Prank Call
4    Avatar Paintball
5    Toy Stunt Bike
6    Minions!
7    Balls
8    Miner Dig Deep
9    I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
10   Avatar Adventurers Online
11   Bird Assassin
12   Avatar Laser Wars
13   Hack This Game
14   Nuclear Wasteland
15   Voice Changer 360
16   Office Affairs
17   AppPack
18   College Lacrosse 2011
19   Avatar Karting
20   Endless Midnight: Zombie Swarm
21   Avatar Fighter

Games for Windows Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1   GTA IV
2   Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
3   Section 8: Prejudice
4   F1 2010
5   Street Fighter IV
6   Colin McRae : Dirt 2
7   Resident Evil 5
8   Fallout 3
9   Bioshock 2
10 Halo 2
11 Bulletstorm
12 Gears of War
13 Batman: Arkham Asylum
14 Red Faction Guerrilla
15 Dead Rising 2
16 Lost Planet 2
17 FlatOut UC
18 Tinker
19 Section 8
20 Battlestations: Pacific

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 the week. Some content (and therefore the links) may not be available in all Xbox LIVE regions.

Top LIVE By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

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http://twitter.com/zebnolsen Zeb N. Olsen

Fairly surprised to see Mortal Kombat that far down the list.
- http://twitter.com/SamboTaylor Sam Taylor
  
  Number 7 is not far down the list. The others are pretty solid in terms of players.
http://twitter.com/iphonefarted iPhone Farts

Can’t believe so many ppl still play GTA IV. Your new banner with your different poses is douchy.
http://twitter.com/JTRIPLEDASH J TRIPLE DASH

no Monday night combat?!? that half surprises. as much as its a fantastic game the glitches are turning a lot of people off it. it needs dlc asap and I pray we get the map editing tools. I truly love the game but all the support that was promised for at at launch is so far yet to be seen. the 5 maps have been played to death.
- http://twitter.com/fuzzyGURU Patrick Timmons
  
  The problem with the list is that the Arcade games are based on purchases, not on people actually playing them. Each time the live activity is posted you will notice that the either the newly released games (Outland) or games that have been on sale (Castlevania: HoD) are usually in the top ten. After that is where you will still those games that are still bringing people in to play (Castle Crashers for example). Games such as Pinball FX2, Game Room, and Hasbro Family Game Night skew those results as the sales are combined for all of their content.
  
  Arcade games really should be more about who is playing the games, instead of what was purchased. As a gamer, I don’t care if it was #1 purchased last week, I want to know if the game is #1 in terms of other people to play with. Is this not the reason we have Xbox Live subscriptions?
http://twitter.com/JTRIPLEDASH J TRIPLE DASH

and if game room is at 17 why have we had no content in months? or at least say that it wont be supported anymore
- http://www.facebook.com/Peridot.Weapon Michael Troupe
  
  Game Room was the ultimate Money Making Game. They took pre-existing compilations from Atari, Activision and Intellivision (which collectively cost about $40 total to buy in their entirety outside of Game Room), added some Konami games, made over a million in profit from this ridiculously-low-cost project that they never gave proper support to … and squandered it all in their Christmas 2010 Kinect Marketing Blitz. Well played, Microsoft. You spit on the past and got away with it.
  
  Admitting it won’t be supported anymore would be foolish – they’d just cost themselves revenue. But believing they’ll revive an application after six months when even Konami pulled their support from it is even MORE foolish.
  - http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney
    
    So sad, so likely to be true.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Sans-Gluten/100001325607074 Sans Gluten
    
    admitting that GR is done might stop some of us posting negative PR all over the interwebz… fixing the broken program would help even more.
http://twitter.com/SamboTaylor Sam Taylor

No Gears 3? It has many players and other BETAs have been on the list…
http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney

Game Room – a free application – is only 17th? Wow. Microsoft really dropped the ball with Game Room. What a joke. I love the thing but you guys really messed up when you stopped releasing stuff for it. Way to lose profit and credibility in one fell swoop.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1566763443 Steve Hinz
  
  The studio that was putting the games out was closed down, but I also hoped MS would pick up another to continue Game Room. Nothings been said officially anywhere, so they did screw the pooch with their “over 1000 classic games” coming for it.
  - http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney
    
    Yeah, I can see how Krome’s closure would slow things down, but like you said, ultimately Microsoft are responsible for it now. It can’t be that hard to buy up some old games and put them into the Game Room template. Come on Major Nelson, give us some news.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Sans-Gluten/100001325607074 Sans Gluten
      
      Can’t be that hard to fix all the glitches either… Wish I hadn’t spent the equivalent of 3 full priced disc games on GR.
- http://www.facebook.com/Peridot.Weapon Michael Troupe
  
  I’ve always been curious what “full versions purchased” means for the Game Room numbers. Does downloading the free program and the thirteen individual packs count as “purchases?” Or are only actual Microsoft Transaction considered? And in that case, does buying a mascot count as much as buying a game?
https://twitter.com/#!/BeeDizz BeeDizz

Betas don’t qualify for the Live activity list. But I was wondering where Bulletstorm was at.
http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson

The Gears Beta is not on the list since it’s a beta, and beta data is not included in the data I get about LIVE Activity. Bulletstorm is right there at 18. I dont’ want to make any guesses as where it would land, so let me see if I can find out and include it on a future list.
http://twitter.com/Vashkey Ritchie

Well… At least World at War has finally dropped out of the top ten. For now.
http://twitter.com/Tallkido Patryk Walczewicz

lol wheres crysis 2 ?
- http://twitter.com/SamboTaylor Sam Taylor
  
  Where is Homefront?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000781728736 Julio Ernesto Arce Betanzos

Where is GoW 3 Beta?
http://twitter.com/sakanakami Joe Eafrati

If the Gears 3 beta was actually tracked, where do you think it would finished on the list?
- http://twitter.com/GeneralTrapstar GeneralTrapstar
  
  Number 1
http://www.facebook.com/tny.mln Tony Milne

It’s been a long while since I’ve been on Major Nelson’s site and I see it’s undergone a graphical overhaul. I have to say though, the colour scheme is terrible. Lime green hyperlinks against light grey? What a terrible choice. Very difficult to see.
- http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson
  
  Yup…and a new, more readable (and I less ‘douchy’) design is coming soon.
  - http://www.facebook.com/tny.mln Tony Milne
    
    Wouldn’t say “douchy” (I had a little giggle at the poses) but glad to hear it’s getting tweaked for readability. Now to catch up on the podcasts I’ve missed
    - http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson
      
      I was referring to another commenter who said that.
      - Anonymous
        
        Hope your not changing it cuz of that one commentor. I think they’re kinda funny
      - http://twitter.com/Amolain 夢を見られた・・・ :)
        
        If not ‘douchy’, then definitely overtly egotistical.
  - http://twitter.com/Und3rGrndKing Und3rGrndKing
    
    lol, don’t let these people get you down. I read that other guy’s comment about the ‘douchy’ banner up top the other day (and while funny – it was quite disrespectful). People just like being critics at everything – no one’s forcing them to visit your personal blog. The banner up top is hilarious and you seem like a nice guy who I know can’t talk back because you have to act you’re age which isn’t under 13 and have a job.
    
    Keep it up, you got decent visitors as well which don’t post daily.
http://twitter.com/jakecoogle Jake Coogle

There should be a way to convert your physical game to a downloadable version. I play Reach all the time, it’d be nice if I didn’t have to have a game disc in for an “installed” game, but I already own a physical copy so I’m not going to buy another copy.

As a business opportunity for Microsoft, they could charge $10 or something and let us send in the disc, then email us a code for the DD. This is $10 and a console lock-in that would not have existed previously.
- Anonymous
  
  or have a code in the game case, and once it is used it can’t be used again, which would also discourage a couple used game sales.
http://twitter.com/radink2 Mark Fiorucci

Major, How come we don’t get numbers? I’d like to see how busy some of those games are on the bottom half of that list.
http://twitter.com/SniperED007 EdwardD

The lumo green font on a gray background is horrible, please change it, it’s been many weeks now. Your blog has taken a step back instead of forward.
http://twitter.com/CdnHeyYou Robbie S.

I thought I saw Halo Reach Beta up there last year?
Anonymous

Awesome that MK is in the top ten!
http://twitter.com/x_yannis Ioannis Bokas

The Live Activity list is a worldwide list, or only from America?
- http://www.majornelson.com Major Nelson
  
  World Wide
  - Anonymous
    
    Hey Mr. Nelson, Would it be possible for you to update these LIVE activity charts more often?
    
    thanks in advanced.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gaius-Baltar/100001706997497 Gaius Baltar

I make that 4 sports games in the top 20, 5 if you include Forza. Why do these games never get as much hype/recognition for doing well ? FIFA 11 has sold something like 13 million copies this year. Is it the perceived lack of innovation as they’re taking from a real life sport ? just curious that’s all as every where I go there’s little mention of the huge genre that is Sports gaming. (I know I’m looking in the mainstream sites) I’d like someone elses angle for why this is the case.
Anonymous

Yes! Call of Duty Black Ops is kicking Reach’s ass and Halo is never going to be number 1 ever again. Nawlins08 and Searing Wave can put that in their pipes and smoke it!
- Anonymous
  
  damn how excited are you for MW3 and MW4?
Anonymous

Is buying Skype, M$ justification for making the price go higher?

New flash, most people just want to use their Xbox for online. To which, you don’t even offer dedicated servers and since my connection is quite good, I am usually the host – being your free server for the session…
- http://profiles.google.com/matt.tanous Matt Tanous
  
  You know, you could play on the PSN. Sometimes. When it’s up. And not being hacked.
  - Anonymous
    
    I do play on the PSN too. Both consoles here…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1045266769 Philipp Vogel

lol crysis 2 and homefront arent there lolololololololololol. Too many people play black ops cant wait for battlefield 3!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HSCLWUU2R4CA7NSR3TIPHYCCDM aldo luis

megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HSCLWUU2R4CA7NSR3TIPHYCCDM aldo luis

megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HSCLWUU2R4CA7NSR3TIPHYCCDM aldo luis

megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please megaman anniversary collection for #Xbox360Please
- http://twitter.com/Ganon255 Dustin
  
  I love that collection. I just rebought it for the Xbox and it plays on the 360.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Jean-Thiéfaine/100000411731172 Jean Thiéfaine
    
    I second that too. I can’t buy that collection as there isn’t a PAL release of it, but would absolutely LOVE to have a Mega Man and Mega Man X collection for the Xbox 360.
    
    On Topic:
    Nice charts, but I’m wondering where the Gears of War 3 beta fits in.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jean-Thiéfaine/100000411731172 Jean Thiéfaine

I personally would love to see more platforms in Game Room, like the TurboGrafX16 or some other unavailable classic platforms (Nintendo/SEGA, I don’t know if that would be possible).
And what is up with the stand alone WP7 releases? They should be attached to the “purchase for alle platforms” option.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=43301305 Mike DeWire
  
  That’s probably not going to happen. Microsoft has pretty much abandoned the 360 version of Game Room. I don’t think they updated it with new games since October of 2010. Plus it has a quite a few bad bugs in it right now, mainly a lot of full system freezes…which Microsoft hasn’t bothered to fix. Since they already have our money…they don’t seem to think they need to fix their broken product.
  - http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney
    
    Sad really, isn’t it? I was waiting for an application like Game Room to come along so I could spend piles of cash on buying old games, and now I have to find something else to do with my money.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Sans-Gluten/100001325607074 Sans Gluten
      
      Yeah… it’s a shame. Really bad move on their part keeping their customers in the dark, using false advertisement and refusing to fix their broken product. Makes me think twice before I buy anything on the marketplace… Would of gladly spent a lot more money on Game Room if they didn’t drop the ball so many times.
      - http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney
        
        False advertising, yeah! Remember when they sent out that Game Room promo stuff with the Double Dragon logo? For shame.
      - http://twitter.com/justinj1983 Justin Johnston
        
        exactly, i went nuts the first month or two buying all sorts of rubbish while i waited for the good stuff to come, the icing on the cake was the non-release of sunset riders.
      - http://www.facebook.com/ray.whitney Ray Whitney
        
        Oh man, Sunset Riders. It bugged me because so many great games came out in the final couple of weeks and I thought it was finally getting better and being what it promised to be… and then it was wiped from space and time, apparently.
Anonymous

The wikipedia page says that the odds for “Full House Poker” are not at all true poker odds. Does anyone know if this is true? There is no reference on wikipedia as to where they got that information, so I couldn’t research it much further. I wanted to ask Major Nelson the question, but he says no game specific questions allowed.
Blake Hinrichs

Halo has fallen? Not really. It’s not the top game being played right now, but it’s still in the top 3, and is only behind CoD games, which naturally has Halo beaten with mindless followers who will buy and play every game that’s put out every year without thinking about whether it’s a “new” or “better” game before they pay $60 for it.
- Anonymous
  
  You know, the “mindless CoD followers” could never beat the last true Halo game, Halo 3. As long as it was alive, no CoD ever beat it, even though MW was launched at it’s prime.
  A halo of quality = better then CoD and it shows.
  A CoD/Crysis clone and quick cash-out with Halo in the name = rightfully beaten by CoD. A shame really, Halo used to mean quality
  - http://profiles.google.com/matt.tanous Matt Tanous
    
    Modern Warfare wasn’t CoD at its prime, although it certainly started its rise. CoD is now at its prime, and will quickly deteriorate as people get sick of it. I wouldn’t be all that surprised if MW3 doesn’t do all that well.
    
    As for the CoD followers being mindless, that is way too true. They will ignore any flaw in their games – such as the massive glitchfest that was MW2 or the nearly identical Black Ops. Not to mention the extreme lack of balance. All in all, Bad Company 2 > all CoD games made. And I expect Battlefield 3 will do much better than MW3, but I doubt these idiots will recognize that CoD isn’t all that good.
    
    Comparing CoD to Halo is ridiculous. These games are much different, and it annoys me that you reject Reach because it is even LESS like CoD. I don’t want Halo to be CoD in space armor.
http://twitter.com/SamboTaylor Sam Taylor

1. Brink is shite. Worst £40 I have ever spent, and I paid £40 for The Outfit.
2. Bulletstorm didn’t sell well, but by the time pre orders came in there were a good 100,000 people playing.
3. Halo hasn’t fallen… Id guess it has similar numbers playing, just Cod is massive.
http://twitter.com/bushmaster2000 bushmaster2000

So you’re telling me the Gears 3 Beta isn’t generating enough traffic to make it into the top 20?
- http://twitter.com/SamboTaylor Sam Taylor
  
  No, if you read earlier it was mentioned that Betas are not included in the list.
- link1a
  
  Bulletstorm will get a lot of traffic from the Gears 3 beta so I would imagine if Betas were included, the Gears 3 beta would be at least 14
- Anonymous
  
  This is a bit off topic…but I’m wondering if MS will ever release that updated 360 controller with the new designed D-pad without a play n charge kit? I’d really love to have one, but I refuse to pay 65 dollars because MS decided for force people to purchase a play n charge kit along with that controller.
  - http://twitter.com/dragunrising Dane Colberg
    
    You can buy the controller for $50 on Amazon with free shipping and zero sales tax.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ivan-Lopez/763768247 Ivan Lopez

Holy smokes! I can’t believe GTA4 is #6, let alone in the top 20. Some of the best legs on the 360 that isn’t named Halo or Call of Duty. Also, Gears of War 2 seems to fluctuate a lot when it comes to the top 20 but I guess people are playing Gears 2 so they can compare Gears 3 or simply get ready for the Gears 3 MP when the game actually releases.
- http://twitter.com/dragunrising Dane Colberg
  
  Where is Crysis 2? Thats what I want to know… Granted I’ve been playing the Gears 3 beta for a month so I imagine the results are going to be a little off. Perhaps it explains why GTA 4 is #6? Just a thought
http://twitter.com/karlcramer Karl Cramer

This list now neads a Top Windows Phone Xbox LIVE list.

May 12th 2011 11:02 am PT

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