Microsoft’s Major Nelson has posted up his weekly update of the ‘Top Games on Xbox Live’ again and I’m happy to say for the time being (and the past months), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is strongly holding the #1 spot of the most played game.

As we all know, GTA IV hit today, so I expect to see it forcing it’s way up the list in the next few weeks and excited to see how it takes Halo 3’s place as our biggest friendly competitor for the Top Spot of the most played game on Xbox Live. We fought hard to secure and keep the #1 spot for over four months now, and I’m excited to see how quickly GTA IV rises up the list.

The ‘Most Played Games on Xbox Live’ list has been posted yet again on Major Nelson’s blog, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has been holding onto the #1 spot for several months now. We revealed recently in a Eurogamer article that there are between 1.2 and 1.3 million gamers playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Xbox Live EVERYDAY! With the numbers on PSN being “monstrously huge” in the words of our Producer, Mark Rubin.

So when I post the Top Games of Xbox Live update every few weeks, think of it as a huge thanks to all of you guys, those 1.3 million of you who are logging into multiplayer every day to shoot each other in the face; because without you it wouldn’t be possible.

With the Variety map pack hitting this past week and a record breaking amount of people downloading them, I hope we can keep that number one spot for a while and make anyone who takes it from us really have to fight for it.

To continue to show our appreciation for you guys logging in every night, and to celebrate the success of the map pack (also the fact that we’ve gone insane), we’ll be extending DOUBLE XP AGAIN! You can continue to get double XP throughout today (Tuesday) until Wednesday morning….. then that’s it….. seriously…. no more after Wednesday morning…. I mean it this time.

Seriously though, thank you thank you thank you for all the support you guys have shown the game. We by far have the greatest game community I’ve ever been a part of (as a gamer).

I’m going to be talking with Major Nelson later this week (tomorrow or the next day) on his Podcast here at GDC and I’m sure the “ping pong” match for the “King of Xbox Live” between Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 will probably be amongst the things we talk about.

Well, I’m off to the awards, I’ll post another quick update after the awards and let you know how we fare. Thanks everyone!!

Update –

1up Awards re-cap:

10:00 PM and back at the hotel after the 1up Awards. We didn’t take home the top prize this time, the 1up Readers Choice GOTY award went to the well-deserved Bioshock.

There’s another award show tomorrow night, the GDC Choice awards, I’m gonna try to make that one, not sure if it interferes with any interview schedules yet, but if not I’ll be sure to attend and let you know how that one goes! Gonna go to sleep a bit early tonight as interviews start first thing tomorrow morning and go all day long so I’ll need the rest. See ya tomorrow guys!

I took some time to talk to my good friend Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb, the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, on his show this weekend. We talked a briefly about the Call of Duty 4 MP BETA touching on some important topics such as people Account Sharing to get into the beta, stats we’re tracking behind the scenes, as well as touch on various other topics.

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In other news: As I said last week, your token should be in your Charlie.com profile by now, if it is not, don’t be shy in letting me know in the comments, but MOST IMPORTANTLY put your email address in the comment with it so I can check the list and get you your token if need be. Thanks everyone.

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Xbox 360 Top Games
1 Call of Duty 2
2 Saints Row
3 Madden NFL 07
4 Ghost Recon 3
5 Test Drive Unlimited
6 DOOM
7 DEAD RISING
8 Oblivion
9 BFMC
10 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG DEMO

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)*
1 DOOM
2 Texas Hold ‘em
3 UNO
4 Hexic HD
5 TotemBall
6 Geometry Wars Evolved
7 Street Fighter II’ Hyper Fighting
8 PAC-MAN
9 Marble Blast Ultra
10 Bankshot Billiards 2

Good Ol’ Major Nelson [aka Larry Hyrb] over at Microsoft announced the latest Xbox Live Charts!

The Call of Duty 2 community is Thriving!

I jumped online last night and got caught up in some amazing Search And Destroy and Headquarters games with some of the community. We played until 3 AM and had some of the closest S&D matches I’ve had in a while.

Thanks to everyone who is still battling it out on Xbox Live, be sure to drop me a Friend Request and/or Invite and we’ll get some great matches going!

Soon we’ll be launching the new Infinity Ward website with an official Call of Duty 2 Ladder System, so be sure to get your practice in now, because we have some awesome tournaments and Call of Duty 2 leagues coming up! ]]> http://www.fourzerotwo.com/2006/12/06/call-of-duty-2-tops-xbox-live-charts/feed/