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A casual game blasts into XBL top 10

Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hyrb is reporting that the just-released Xbox Live Arcade title Marble Blast Ultra has earned a spot in the top 10-most played games on all of Xbox Live last week. This is not the first time that a casual game has appeared in the top 10. The free title Hexic HD has appeared in the list twice before.

The real question is whether this statistic includes playtime from only those who purchased the full game. If so, then this would be a milestone indicating that inexpensively developed, inexpensively sold casual games can hang up there in the top 10 when it comes to grabbing a share of player attention on the 360.

  1. Halo 2
  2. Call of Duty 2
  3. DEAD OR ALIVE 4
  4. Perfect Dark Zero
  5. PGR3
  6. Need for Speed Most Wanted
  7. Battlefield 2: MC
  8. Madden NFL 06
  9. Full Auto Demo
  10. Marble Blast Ultra

Note that this statistic includes time spent connected to Xbox Live playing various games, whether the playtime is spent in single- or multi-player mode.

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