South Africans love them. Most other parts of the world hate them. I am of course talking about the ‘wonderfully’ ‘unique’ ‘instrument,’ the vuvuzela horn.

Able to generate vast decibels of vibrating, skull-drilling noise with little more than an altered whistling technique, the vuvuzela is now capable of reducing minions and demons of hell to gobs of bloody flesh.

How is this possible? How is anything in this crazy world made possible? Through a DOOM II modification, of course!

Watch below as a DOOM II player decimates enemies with nothing but a blow on the horn:

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At this stage, we may as well call the weekly Xbox LIVE Activity ranking the ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Plus Other’ ranking, because week after week, time after time, this insidious (in all the right ways) game consistently shows up at the top of the chart, meaning it’s always the most played game on Xbox LIVE.

This dominance is only set to get worse, with the release of the next map pack, Resurgence, tomorrow (June 3rd), exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

It is interesting, however, the way Red Dead Redemption has effortlessly climbed up the listing since its recent launch…

As for best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games, the newly released DOOM II sits comfortably at the top of this particular chart, with Game Room (and its assortment of games) and Toy Soldiers following behind. The list of best selling Xbox Indie games is mixed up with the appearance of Avatar Wave: Snowball Fight at first, trailed by Avatar Racedrome and The Impossible Game.

The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, top selling XBLA games and Xbox Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased (now including Games for Windows games):

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Oh yes!

id Software’s classic first-person shooter, DOOM II, has finally arrived on Xbox LIVE Arcade today, and with it, a whole host of features including four-player multiplayer, a split-screen cooperative mode (over Xbox LIVE), Game clips, enhanced graphics, and 5.1 Surround Sound, as well as 9 all-new levels in a new episode entitled No Rest for the Living.

Oh yeah… some other XBLA games are also available today, namely Voodoo Dice and Ben 10: The Rise of Hex. What are these games about? Dang, do you think I know everything?

Head on down below for full and official descriptions to find out more:

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Alongside the release of an “innovative” puzzle game called Voodoo Dice on Xbox LIVE Arcade tomorrow, we’ll also see the launch of id Software’s classic DOOM II on the service (yes, just like that - all caps and Roman numerals).

While Voodoo Dice has been priced at 800 MS Points, no price has yet been set for DOOM II, but if the release of the original game on XBLA, DOOM, is anything to go by, DOOM II may also be 800 MS Points (although DOOM is currently sitting at 400 MS Points after a price reduction).

Let’s all pretend we’ve been transported way, way back to the days of DOOM II’s original release in 1994, and see what the developers (including John Romero and American McGee) have to say about the game’s ‘imminent’ release:

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After receiving an interesting reader question regarding the future of an Xbox LIVE Arcade version of id Software’s classic Doom II, videogame consumer site Destructoid took the query straight to the top: Bethesda’s VP of Public Relations and Marketing, Pete Hines.

Why Bethesda? Well, after the whole Zenimax/Bethesda/id Sofware acquisition, this is the group that would publish the game on Xbox LIVE if it were ever to release.

So what did Hines have to say about the possibility of Doom II appearing on Xbox LIVE Arcade in the future?

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