Minecraft Beats Call of Duty Black Ops in Xbox Live

Much debate has been had over recent years about whether video gaming is becoming less adolescent with a focus on shooting baddies dead dead dead! Well, on the side of people who believe that gaming can be creative and constructive is news from Major Nelson regarding block builder Minecraft and Dead! Dead! Dead! shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The Major, who is a mouthpiece of Microsoft and also your pal and buddy, but mostly the first bit, lays out the charts of activity on Xbox Live. Praise the gods of real gaming, Minecraft has beaten Call of Duty: Black Ops in terms of actual people actually making use of it.

Calm down a bit though optimists, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 still tops the charts, which you can see below:

LIVE Activity for week of May 14th
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Call of Duty: Black Ops
FIFA 12
Battlefield 3
Halo: Reach
Modern Warfare 2
NBA 2K12
Skyrim
Gears of War 3
GTA IV
Forza Motorsport 4
Max Payne 3
Trials Evolution
Mass Effect 3
NHL12
Madden NFL 12
Halo 3
Red Dead Redemption
Saints Row: The Third

Source: Major Nelson