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D&D: Daggerdale leads XBLA chart

But no 2011 titles in XBL activity top 10.

Atari action RPG Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale was the most downloaded Xbox Live Arcade game last week, Microsoft has revealed.

According to a set of charts posted on Major Nelson's blog, Pinball FX2 came in second, followed by Full House Poker, Castle Crashers and Trials HD. Here's the full top 20:

  1. Dungeons & Dragon Daggerdale
  2. Pinball FX2
  3. Full House Poker
  4. Castle Crashers
  5. Trials HD
  6. Game Room
  7. Portal: Still Alive
  8. Outland
  9. Battlefield 1943
  10. Section 8: Prejudice
  11. Torchlight
  12. Plants vs. Zombies
  13. Uno
  14. Dead Rising 2: Case West
  15. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels
  16. Magic: The Gathering
  17. Sega Rally Online Arcade
  18. The Fancy Pants Adventures
  19. Peggle
  20. Limbo

Elsewhere, the Xbox Live activity chart made for some rather depressing reading, with not a single game released this year cracking the top 10.

Based on global unique users, Call of Duty continues to be Xbox 360 users' multiplayer franchise of choice, with Halo: Reach and FIFA also still riding high.

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