Xfire shows off their latest Xstatics

If you're anything like us, you may not be aware of what Xfire does besides run stellar machinima contests or host interesting discussions in their debate club. However, they also produce a gaming-oriented IM client that lets you see what games your friends are playing, chat with them in or out of game, and join them in whatever game they might be playing. This little application allows Xfire to compile some interesting data about the games people are playing and – while their data doesn't include every last gamer – with over 8 million users in 700 different games, they have a broad sampling size. Read on for a breakdown of the details or check out Xfire's Xstatics site.

Xfire's top 20 games for August

1. World of Warcraft with 443,299 hours played daily
2. Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer with 173,355 hours played daily
   
3. Counter-Strike Source with 158,714 hours played daily
   
4. Battlefield 2 with 78,809 hours played daily
5. Guild Wars with 59,199 hours played daily
   
6. Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne with 41,242 hours played daily
   
7. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with 40,317 hours played daily
   
8. Silkroad Online with 36,528 hours played daily
   
9. Counter-Strike 1.6 with 31,028 hours played daily
10. Soldier Front with 22,994 hours played daily
    
11. War Rock with 22,603 hours played daily
    
12. Battlefield 2142 with 22,441 hours played daily
    
13. Call of Duty Multiplayer with 20,296 hours played daily
    
14. Call of Duty United Offensive with 20,124 hours played daily
    
15. MapleStory with 18,421 hours played daily
    
16. Halo with 14,454 hours played daily
    
17. GunZ with 12,606 hours played daily
    
18. Diablo II - Lord of Destruction with 12,502 hours played daily
19. Flyff with 10,926 hours played daily
20. Eve Online with 10,879 hours played daily

Never heard of some of these games? That's because several games in our top 20 are free to play online games that are more popular in Asia than they are here, such as Silkroad Online, Soldier Front, War Rock, MapleStory, GunZ, and Flyff. Also worth noting is the fact that Call of Duty 2 has recently (starting in June) surpassed Counter-Strike Source as Xfire's most popular FPS. And in the MMO circuit, since January World of Warcraft has oscillated between 370,000 hours a day and 455,000 hours a day, but despite the exact numbers, it remains well ahead of any competition (the closest month for the game being May, when World of Warcraft was only played approximately 8 times as much as Guild Wars). For full details, including breakdowns of each game by genre, check the the latest Xstatics on Xfire.