Halo 3 Tops Xbox Live's 2008 Most Played Games List

Everyone's attention over the past six months has been on the glut of big releases that gamers had to tackle in the last few months of 2008, so isn't it ironic that the most played Xbox 360 game should be something that wasn't even released in 2007? Major Nelson revealed the top 20 games played throughout 2008 based upon unique users connected to Xbox Live. The Xbox 360 retail games list was led by Halo 3 , Call of Duty 4 , and Grand Theft Auto 4 . Gears of War 2 came in at number 4, while the new Call of Duty, World at War , managed to be the sixth title on the list. You could look at that in two very different ways; Was the game a success by reaching the number 6 slot despite the congested release period and having less than two months to get into gamers' hands, or should developer Treyarch be hanging their heads that they were bested by an older CoD title? The Xbox Live Arcade titles list doesn't really have ... (link)