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More people logged on to Xbox Live to play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim last week than they did Battlefield 3, Microsoft has revealed.

However, Bethesda's gargantuan RPG couldn't put a dent in Call of Duty's unrelenting domination, with Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops finishing first and second respectively.

New releases Saints Row: The Third, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary came in at 10th, 11th and 13th.

Here's the full Xbox Live Activity top 20, as seen on Major Nelson's blog:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
3. Skyrim
4. Battlefield 3
5. FIFA 12
6. Modern Warfare 2
7. Halo: Reach
8. Gears of War 3
9. Madden NFL 12
10. Saints Row: The Third
11. Assassin's Creed Revelations
12. GTA IV
13. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
14. Forza Motorsport 4
15. Batman: Arkham City
16. NBA 2K12
17. Halo 3
18. FIFA Soccer 11
19. NHL12
20. Call of Duty 4

Over on the Xbox Live Arcade chart, Pinball FX2 came out on top, followed by Super Meat Boy and Marvel vs Capcom 2. There were no new entries in the top 20, thanks no doubt to the slew of Black Friday savings on old content up for grabs.

The full chart looked rather like this:

1. Pinball FX2
2. Super Meat Boy
3. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
4. Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
5. Bejeweled 2
6. Bejeweled Blitz Live
7. Crazy Taxi
8. Stacking
9. Fruit Ninja Kinect
10. Sega Rally Online Arcade
11. Full House Poker
12. Streets of Rage 2
13. DeathSpank: The Baconing
14. The Fancy Pants Adventures
15. OutRun Online Arcade
16. Dungeon Defenders
17. Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
18. Castle Crashers
19. Real Steel
20. Phantasy Star II

Haven't had a chance to pick it (Skyrim)up, but I have been told to plan a few days off when I do!

Haven't had a chance to pick it (Skyrim)up, but I have been told to plan a few days off when I do!

Black Ops appears to be very popular online, I played it yesterday and around 250K people on the PS3 network.

Haha BF3 sucks hard. Glad to see it 4th behind a single player only game and the last year's Call of Duty as well as the much expected new Call of Duty.

And it damn well deserves it! It's a truly brilliant game.

It's rather sad to see Halo Reach getting pummeled so badly in these charts (although I can't blame people for not being into that game as much as past Halo games)

Hopefully Halo 4 can bring the glory back to the series.

Interesting in that Battlefield sold almost a million more units and is online intensive where as Skyrim is not.  A whole lot of Battlefield purachsers are already not playing it.

And the Halo numbers area little skewed in that you kind of have to add Reach and Anniversary together to get the true number since you can play the new maps/lists off Anniversary as well.  THough I would agree, the numbers are sad.  Was on tonight on a Saturday evening, and it was only like 50k on there.  Used to be 200k not that long ago regularly.  But my friends list is almost all Halo people I've met, and it's been straight up Skyrim for three weeks.  (Including me, mostly, and I am a huge Halo nerd.)

Well the reason for that is most are all playing MW3/Black Ops whilst the rest are playing Skyrim. Even if a game doesn't have online MS tracks how many people are on Xbox Live while playing it. 

And even if you add Reach and Anniversary together you will still get an absolutely abysmal amount of players. The day after Anniversary came out I went online with it and there were only 25k people online so I imagine it's much less now and last time I was on Reach there were 45k people online. Halo 3 had more people online on average than Reach and Anniversary put together up until the time Halo Reach came out.

Didn't know Fifa was so popular.

Nice to see Battlefield get beat by Skyrim, but it's still too high IMO.

Also, people are still playing Grand Theft Auto? WOW!