Top Games of 2011

Last year was a fantastic year to be an Xbox 360 gamer as is evident by the quality of titles that Xbox LIVE members were playing.

After a few days of number crunching, here are the top games for 2011 based on Unique Users connect to Xbox LIVE or full versions purchased between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)

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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 (Full Versions purchased)

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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
  The above list is based on full versions purchased.

Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)

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FortressCraft Chapter 1
Total Miner: Forge
The Impossible Game
Avatar Paintball
Toy Stunt Bike
CastleMiner Z
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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
  The above list is based on full versions purchased.

Games for Windows LIVE Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)

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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

Windows Phone Games (based on UU’s)

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Angry Birds
Fruit Ninja
PvZ
Need for Speed Undercover
Full House Poker
MONOPOLY
Doodle Jump
Bejeweled LIVE
Rise Of Glory
geoDefense
ilomilo
Assassin’s Creed – Altaïr’s Chronicles HD
Sonic 4 Episode I
Tetris
Fable: Coin Golf
Hydro Thunder GO
The Harvest
Uno
Tentacles
The Sims 3

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 2011.

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