Call of Duty takes top three spots on 2011 Xbox Live activity charts

One juggernaut dominated Xbox Live during 2011 - and it's exactly what you expected.

Activision's Call of Duty franchise nabbed the three top spots on 2011's Xbopx Live activity charts, as revealed by Major Nelson.

2010's Black Ops took top spot, with November's Modern Warfare 3 in second place and 2009's Modern Warfare 2 coming in third.

2007's Call of Duty 4 managed 14th place, and 2008's World at War came in at 20th, giving the franchise one quarter of total ranking positions for the whole year.

Shooters in general were the flavour of the year (again), with Halo: Reach in fourth, Battlefield 3 in fifth, Gears of War 3 in seventh - and more beyond the top ten.

Age of Empires Online topped Games for Windows Live activity, while Angry Birds took out Windows Phone 7.

On the Arcade games charts, Pinball FX2 proved most popular, and Minecraft Clone FortressCraft maintained its hold on the indie scene.

See the full charts below.

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

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1. Pinball FX2
2. Full House Poker
3. Castle Crashers
4. Fruit Ninja Kinect
5. From Dust
6. Trials HD
7. Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
8. DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
9. Torchlight
10. Toy Soldiers: Cold War
11. Plants vs. Zombies
12. Portal: Still Alive
13. Bastion
14. LIMBO
15. Game Room
16. DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
17. Peggle
18. Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale
19. Battlefield 1943
20. Beyond Good & Evil HD

Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1. FortressCraft Chapter 1
2. Total Miner: Forge
3. The Impossible Game
4. Avatar Paintball
5. Toy Stunt Bike
6. CastleMiner Z
7. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
8. Avatar Legends
9. CastleMiner
10. Miner Dig Deep
11. Avatar Laser Wars
12. Bird Assassin
13. Voice Changer 360
14. Nuclear Wasteland
15. Avatar Karting
16. Zombie Estate
17. Avatar Drop
18. Baby Maker Extreme 2
19. College Lacrosse 2011
20. The $1 Zombie Game

Games for Windows LIVE Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1. Age of Empires Online
2. GTA IV
3. Batman Arkham City
4. Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
5. F1 2011
6. DiRT 3
7. F1 2010
8. Fable III
9. Street Fighter IV
10. Resident Evil 5
11. AoE Online – Beta
12. Fallout 3
13. Colin McRae : Dirt 2
14. Batman: Arkham Asylum
15. Bioshock 2
16. Bulletstorm
17. Section 8: Prejudice
18. Red Faction Guerrilla
19. Dead Rising 2
20. Operation Flashpoint Red River

Windows Phone Games (based on UU’s)
1. Angry Birds
2. Fruit Ninja
3. PvZ
4. Need for Speed Undercover
5. Full House Poker
6. MONOPOLY
7. Doodle Jump
8. Bejeweled LIVE
9. Rise Of Glory
10. geoDefense
11. ilomilo
12. Assassin’s Creed – Altaïr’s Chronicles HD
13. Sonic 4 Episode I
14. Tetris
15. Fable: Coin Golf
16. Hydro Thunder GO
17. The Harvest
18. Uno
19. Tentacles
20. The Sims 3

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