{"id":46477,"date":"2012-10-26T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46477"},"modified":"2012-10-26T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:57:07","slug":"minecraft-dethrones-modern-warfare-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46477-minecraft-dethrones-modern-warfare-3","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft dethrones Modern Warfare 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em><\/strong>Minecraft has finally done the impossible and knocked a Call of Duty game off the top of the Xbox Live list.<\/p>\n

A report on the Xbox Live activity for the week of 15 October shows that Notch\u2019s block-building phenomenon has risen above all other games, including some big names like FIFA 13, Halo: Reach and Battlefield 3.<\/p>\n

In addition to being the most played game on Xbox Live, Minecraft <\/em><\/strong>also managed to top the Xbox Live Arcade charts for the week too.<\/p>\n

Top Xbox 360 Live titles (based on unique users)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition<\/li>\n
  2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/li>\n
  3. FIFA Soccer 13<\/li>\n
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/li>\n
  5. Borderlands 2<\/li>\n
  6. Halo: Reach<\/li>\n
  7. Battlefield 3<\/li>\n
  8. Modern Warfare 2<\/li>\n
  9. Madden NFL 13<\/li>\n
  10. NBA 2K13<\/li>\n
  11. Happy Wars<\/li>\n
  12. Skyrim<\/li>\n
  13. Gears of War 3<\/li>\n
  14. Resident Evil 6<\/li>\n
  15. GTA IV<\/li>\n
  16. FIFA 12<\/li>\n
  17. Forza Motorsport 4<\/li>\n
  18. Dishonored<\/li>\n
  19. EA SPORTS NHL13<\/li>\n
  20. Halo 3<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Top Arcade titles (full versions purchased)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition<\/li>\n
    2. The Walking Dead<\/li>\n
    3. Sonic Adventure 2<\/li>\n
    4. Trials Evolution<\/li>\n
    5. Serious Sam 3: BFE<\/li>\n
    6. Worms Revolution<\/li>\n
    7. Counter-Strike: GO<\/li>\n
    8. Pinball FX2<\/li>\n
    9. Zombie Driver HD<\/li>\n
    10. Trials HD<\/li>\n
    11. Castle Crashers<\/li>\n
    12. Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise<\/li>\n
    13. Mark of the Ninja<\/li>\n
    14. Magic 2013<\/li>\n
    15. Nexuiz<\/li>\n
    16. Jet Set Radio<\/li>\n
    17. Toy Soldiers: Cold War<\/li>\n
    18. Fruit Ninja Kinect<\/li>\n
    19. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD<\/li>\n
    20. Toy Soldiers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Source: Major Nelson<\/a><\/h5>\n

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      Minecraft makes its way to the top of the Xbox Live pile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":46478,"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],"tags":[31,333,7414,89,7413],"class_list":["post-46477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-minecraft","tag-most-played-game","tag-xbox-live","tag-xbox-live-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}