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Minecraft was the third most played game on Xbox Live last week, Microsoft has announced.

The only games to boast more worldwide unique users were Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops.

Mojang's indie phenomenon raced past chart mainstays Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 and Halo Reach in its first week on sale.

Further down the chart, Trials: Evolution continues to put in a very respectable performance for an XBLA title, nestled at 12.

Here's the full top 20, as posted by Microsoft community man Major Nelson:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
3. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
4. FIFA 12
5. Battlefield 3
6. Halo: Reach
7. Modern Warfare 2
8. NBA 2K12
9. Skyrim
10. Gears of War 3
11. GTA IV
12. Trials Evolution
13. Forza Motorsport 4
14. Mass Effect 3
15. NHL12
16. Madden NFL 12
17. Halo 3
18. Red Dead Redemption
19. Saints Row: The Third
20. Call of Duty 4

Unsurprisingly, given the fact that it's already sold over a million units, Minecraft was also top of the Xbox Live Arcade sales chart, unseating last week's leader The Walking Dead, which fell to three.

Trials Evolution climbed to two, Fable Heroes held steady at four, closely followed by Fez at five.

1. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
2. Trials Evolution
3. The Walking Dead
4. Fable Heroes
5. Fez
6. Pinball FX2
7. Awesomenauts
8. I Am Alive
9. Castle Crashers
10. Family Game Night
11. Fruit Ninja Kinect
12. Bloodforge
13. Toy Soldiers: Cold War
14. Gotham City Impostors
15. Toy Soldiers
16. Trials HD
17. Dungeon Defenders
18. Full House Poker
19. Peggle
20. Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012

Thats insanity. Im really happy for Mojang and Microsfot Game Studios. The Game is fantastic.

That is incredibly impressive for an arcade game to get so close to the top of the most played games list. Wish they gave the amount of unique users for each game.

More like it says tons about how much call of duty is played on xblive. A new game that sold a million in a week is trailing behind it.

I am surprised there are so many few people playing halo reach. More people playing battlefield 3?

What happened to halo?

Also seriously are there that many people playing GTA IV?

Since Minecraft came out out I'm calling - This generation = over.

I don't foresee I'll need to buy another game for a year or two -

Minecraft + backlog = years of mining/crafting to the power of some (well a hundred or so) games I still have to finish/open.

plus plus

Halo3 lost top spot after MW2 launched and never regained it. Then Reach died off when Blops launched a few weeks later. Maybe things will pick up again with H4.