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Live top ten: Agency Ascension
Last week, we had 4 demos on the Xbox Live Activity top ten. This week, we only have one on the list. Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas continue to hold their respective top two spots. Crackdown comes in strong taking third place, pushing Call of Duty 3 down a notch. The Crackdown demo holds its middle of the pack position, even after its retail counterpart has been released. Madden and Lost Planet continue to follow behind, while Oblivion moves up a spot. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 comes in ninth and Saints Row makes a return to the list at tenth. We've got a list ready for you after the break with the title's standings last week in brackets for those statistic hungry types.
Live top ten: Revenge of the Demos
For two weeks in a row now, we've had demos creeping into the Xbox Live activity charts. This week is no different, bringing a forth into the fold, ironically taking the forth spot. Of course, we're talking about the Def Jam: Icon demo. Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas continue to dominate and hold onto their stranglehold for the top spots. COD3 moved into bronze position, pushing Crackdown to fifth behind the aforementioned new demo. Madden, Lost Planet, NBA Street and Oblivion stay put, and GRAW 2's demo replaces its predecessor in tenth place. Take a gander at our handy dandy list after the break.
Live top ten: attack of the demos
After the Crackdown demo managed to crack the long held top three last week, two more demos are climbing the Xbox Live charts this week. While Gears of War maintains #1 and Rainbow Six Vegas reclaims #2, Call of Duty 3 has been pushed all the way down to #5. The usurpers: the Crackdown demo at #3 and the GRAW 2 demo at #4. Madden 07 remains at #6, while Lost Planet drops two spots to claim #7. Another demo, NBA Street Homecourt, lands at #8, while Live mainstays, Oblivion and GRAW, grab #9 and #10 respectively. Check out a handy list after the break.
Live Top Ten: the rise of Crackdown
It was a busy week for Xbox Live last week, as three new titles have split the top ten in twain. The trio of titles are the Crackdown demo, Heavy Weapon, and the Battlestations: Midway demo, landing at #4, #6, and #7 respectively. The big story here is that the Crackdown demo -- just a demo, mind you -- managed to unseat Lost Planet, which has been unceremoniously shoved into the #5 slot. Granted, the Crackdown demo is free, but considering you can only play it for an hour at the most, it's still very impressive. The rest of the list is pretty much what we've come to expect, with Gears on top and Vegas and COD3 vying for second place. The bottom three slots are rounded out by Madden 07, Oblivion, and Saints Row respectively. Last week we asked whether or not we'd ever see something that isn't a shooter at #1. Could it be Crackdown? Check out this week's top ten after the break.
Live top ten: there's Lost Planet!
Given the onslaught of cold and nasty weather that ripped across the US last week, we find it amusingly ironic that Lost Planet -- a game about snow -- debuted at number 4 on the Xbox Live charts. Then again, given that the game has already gone platinum, it's not exactly surprising. The racing genre gets denied this week, as NFS: Carbon and PGR3 are bumped off the list. They are replaced with UNO, which slipped a spot to hit #9, and Call of Duty 2, which was missing from last week's top ten. The rest of the list is basically a mishmash of the same old titles, with Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas, and Call of Duty 3 once again claiming spot 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Here's an interesting question for you: will there ever be a #1 title that isn't a shooter? Ponder this question as you check out the top ten list after the break.
Live top ten: where's Lost Planet? [update 1]
Major Nelson has posted his usual breakdown of the top ten Xbox Live titles, and there is a curious absence. After trumpeting worldwide shipments of 1 million units, Capcom's Lost Planet is missing from the list entirely. It looks like it's still too early for Lost Planet to make an impact. Even if half of the 1 million shipped copies actually sold, that's still significantly less than the number of copies of mainstays like Oblivion and Gears. And of course, the game only launched this past Friday. We do expect, however, that Lost Planet will make it onto next week's top ten. Check out the current list after the break.
Live top ten: it's back [update 1]
Back in action and mad with power, Major Nelson has once again posted the top ten most played games on Xbox Live. You may recall that the list was absent last week on account of obscene amounts of wind. Apart from some Xbox Live mainstays, this week's list is a completely new beast. First, the oldies: Gears of War maintains its #1 spot as Call of Duty 3 hangs on to #2 and Vegas remains in the money at the #3 spot. Meanwhile, Madden 07 keeps #5. As for the new wave hits: Assault Heroes shoots all the way up to the #4 spot, while Call of Duty 2, Oblivion, and GRAW all gain a spot to take #6, #7, and #8 respectively. The last two entries are perhaps the biggest surprise we've seen on the list in a while, as Saints Row claims the #9 slot and the Project 8 demo -- not the full game, the demo -- claims the final spot in the top 10. Bizarre, though it might bode well for Project 8's holiday sales. See the handily numbered list after the break.
Live top ten: GOW is #1 yet again
Just two weeks ago, we found out that Gears of War had accomplished the impossible by knocking Halo 2 off of the number one Live spot. That lead held for a second week, and now it has solidified itself into the top spot yet again, three weeks running. Rounding out the rest of the top ten is an interesting mix. Call of Duty 3 rests comfortably at number two, Small Arms is in third (very impressive for an arcade title), while Rainbow Six Vegas -- a game teeming with online features -- lands all the way down at number seven. Curiously, there are three demos in the top ten, and if the Lost Planet demo is any indication of its future popularity -- it's in fourth place -- Capcom looks to have a hit on its hands. Meanwhile, the rest of the list is filled in with staples Madden (#6), Call of Duty 2 (#9), and Oblivion (#10).Xbox 360 Titles for the week of 11/27:1 Gears of War2 Call Of Duty 33 Small Arms4 LOST PLANET OnlineDemo5 SUPERMAN DEMO6 Madden NFL 077 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas8 Rainbow Six Vegas Multi Player Demo9 Call of Duty 210 OblivionSo, are you rocking any of these games, or are you one of the guys still playing Counter-Strike on the original Xbox?[Thanks, un1qu3 n3wy0rk]
