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Xbox 360 Owners Play 31 Million Halo: Reach Games

Posted September 20, 2010 by James Brightman

Bungie's Halo: Reach took the industry by storm last week, very quickly generating over $200 million in sales. The game already beat out Halo 3 in terms of concurrent players online on Xbox Live, and now Bungie has unveiled a list of more impressive statistics for the title.

The developer says 31 million games have been played in Reach since launch, and 953 man-years have been spent in matchmade games while 1365 man-years have been spent in campaign mode. 

Other interesting tidbits:

• 98,000,000 Player-games have been recorded
• 8,214,338 Daily Challenges have been completed
• 255,996 Weekly Challenges have been completed
• 78,499,560,895 Total Credits have been earned
• 854,107 files have been uploaded
• 577,804 recommendations have been sent to friends
• 4,619,455 files have been downloaded

James Brightman has been covering the games industry since 2003 and has been an avid gamer ever since the days of Atari and Intellivision. He was previously the EIC of GameDaily Biz.