{"id":30308,"date":"2012-01-07T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30308"},"modified":"2012-01-09T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T07:42:29","slug":"microsoft-reveals-most-played-xbox-360-games-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30308-microsoft-reveals-most-played-xbox-360-games-of-2011","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reveals most played Xbox 360 games of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has released their most played <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> games of 2011, and surprise surprise <a title=\"Game Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21061-Call-of-Duty\">Call of Duty<\/a> took the top spot. Well, actually, Call of Duty took ALL the top spots.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in at 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively are Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Halo Reach managed 4th, while Battlefield 3 came skulking in at 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, 12 of the Top 20 games weren\u2019t even released in 2011, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare managed to make the list at 14th, despite being over 3 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full list:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Call of Duty: Black Ops<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Modern Warfare 2<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Halo: Reach<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Battlefield 3<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Skyrim<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Gears of War 3<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FIFA 12<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0FIFA Soccer 11<br \/>\n10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Madden NFL 12<br \/>\n11.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0GTA IV<br \/>\n12.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0NBA 2K11<br \/>\n13.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Battlefield: Bad Company 2<br \/>\n14.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Call of Duty 4<br \/>\n15.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Battlefield 3 Beta<br \/>\n16.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Halo 3<br \/>\n17.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Gears of War 2<br \/>\n18.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Forza Motorsport 4<br \/>\n19.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Red Dead Redemption<br \/>\n20.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Call of Duty: World at War<\/p>\n<p>As for <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19908-Xbox-LIVE-(XBL)\">Xbox LIVE<\/a> Arcade, Pinball FX2 took the top spot, followed closely by Full House Poker and Castle Crashers. Here\u2019s the full 20:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pinball FX2<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Full House Poker<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Castle Crashers<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Fruit Ninja Kinect<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0From Dust<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Trials HD<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Magic: The Gathering &#8211; Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dead Rising 2: Case West<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Torchlight<br \/>\n10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Toy Soldiers: Cold War<br \/>\n11.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Plants vs. Zombies<br \/>\n12.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Portal: Still Alive<br \/>\n13.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bastion<br \/>\n14.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Limbo<br \/>\n15.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Game Room<br \/>\n16.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dead Rising 2: Case Zero<br \/>\n17.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Peggle<br \/>\n18.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dungeons &amp; Dragons Daggerdale<br \/>\n19.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Battlefield 1943<br \/>\n20.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Beyond Good &amp; Evil HD<\/p>\n<p>Once again FPS games dominate the online scene, and the Call of Duty franchise again cements itself as the FPS of choice for online gamers.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-01-06-most-played-xbox-360-games-of-2011-revealed\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you&#8217;ll never guess who&#8217;s first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":25479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[23,91,1859,1860,79,89],"class_list":["post-30308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-call-of-duty","tag-microsoft","tag-most-played-games-2011","tag-online-gaming","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30309,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions\/30309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}