The last time Xbox frontman Major Nelson released an Xbox LIVE Activity Chart, Bungie’s Halo: Reach has just taken the top spot on the ranking to become the most played game on Xbox LIVE.

Since then, the good Major has been incredibly busy, what with promoting the launch of Xbox 360 Kinect and all, so we haven’t really got any updates on the shape of global Xbox LIVE activity for a while now.

That’s about to change.

While Halo: Reach was the top, most active game on Xbox LIVE way back during the week of September 20th, Microsoft and Bungie’s first-person shooter has since been usurped, not only by that game’s previous rival, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but Activision and Treyarch’s latest blockbuster, Call of Duty: Black Ops as well.

How is this possible? Let’s take a look at the numbers released by Activision proper (and sent out by Major Nelson):

Over 5.9 million multiplayer hours were recorded on Xbox LIVE for Call of Duty: Black Ops by the end of the game’s launch day on November 9th, while more than 2.6 million unique gaming IDs were recorded playing Black Ops on that same day.

According to Major Nelson, these are both new records for the Xbox LIVE service, and they’re records that won’t be broken again for a long time. Highly impressive, but that unfortunately shuts out Halo: Reach’s chances of a comeback.

But what about the rest of the chart?

The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, top selling XBLA games, Xbox Indie Games and most played Games For Windows LIVE games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased:

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles

• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Modern Warfare 2
• Halo: Reach
• FIFA Soccer 11
• Fable III
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Call of Duty: WaW
• Madden NFL 11
• Call of Duty 4
• Halo 3
• NBA 2K11
• GTA IV
• Red Dead Redemption
• Gears of War 2
• Battlefield: Bad Co. 2
• Kinect Adventures!
• Medal of Honor
• NHL 11
• Forza Motorsport 3
• FIFA 10

Top Arcade Titles

• SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels
• Guwange
• Super Meat Boy
• Faery: Legends of Avalon
• DEAD RISING 2: CASE ZERO
• Plants vs. Zombies
• RISK: FACTIONS
• THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 UNLIMITED MATCH
• LIMBO
• Trials HD
• Peggle
• Castle Crashers
• SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode I
• Bloody Good Time
• Sonic Adventure
• Game Room
• Snoopy Flying Ace
• 3D Ultra MiniGolf Adventures 2
• Family Game Night

Top Indie Games

• Nuclear Wasteland
• I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
• radiangames Fireball
• THE ZOMBIE SHOTGUN MASSACRE 2
• The Impossible Game
• Get Rich or Die Gaming
• The TEMPURA of the DEAD
• Avatar Racedrome
• radiangames Fluid
• Baby Maker Extreme
• Avatar Drop
• Miner Dig Deep
• Avatar Showdown
• Physics Sandbox 2
• Breath of Death VII
• Home Run Challenge
• radiangames Inferno
• Avatar Ninja!
• Zombie Estate
• Game 35

Games for Windows Top LIVE Titles

• GTA IV
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
• F1 2010
• Street Fighter IV
• Fallout 3
• Colin McRae : Dirt 2
• Resident Evil 5
• Dead Rising 2
• Halo 2
• Bioshock 2
• Red Faction Guerrilla
• Lost Planet 2
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Gears of War
• Tinker
• FlatOut UC
• Blacklight: Tango Down
• Quantum of Solace
• Battlestations: Pacific
• Fuel

Source: Major Nelson’s Blog