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Homefront debuts at six on Xbox Live

Plus, Full House Poker tops XBLA chart.

THQ FPS Homefront was the sixth most played game on Xbox Live in its debut week on release, Microsoft has revealed.

Call of Duty: Black Ops continues to camp out at number one, followed by Modern Warfare 2 and Halo: Reach.

As revealed yesterday, Homefront has notched up a million sales since it arrived on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 earlier this month.

Here's the full top 20, as published on Major Nelson's blog:

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops
  2. Modern Warfare 2
  3. Halo: Reach
  4. FIFA Soccer 11
  5. NBA 2K11
  6. Homefront
  7. GTA IV
  8. Dragon Age 2
  9. Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
  10. Call of Duty 4
  11. Call of Duty: WaW
  12. Gears of War 2
  13. Halo 3
  14. Red Dead Redemption
  15. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
  16. NHL 11
  17. Madden NFL 11
  18. Forza Motorsport 3
  19. MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3
  20. Fallout: New Vegas

Over on Xbox Live Arcade, Full House Poker lead the pack in its debut week, followed by Torchlight, Battle: Los Angeles, Pinball FX 2 and Beyond Good & Evil HD.

  1. Full House Poker
  2. Torchlight
  3. Battle: Los Angeles
  4. Pinball FX2
  5. Beyond Good & Evil HD
  6. Castle Crashers
  7. Trials HD
  8. Game Room
  9. DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
  10. Hard Corps: Uprising
  11. Plants vs. Zombies
  12. LIMBO
  13. Battlefield 1943
  14. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
  15. Peggle
  16. UNO
  17. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
  18. DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
  19. Deadliest Warrior
  20. ilomilo