Activision is on a roll, with Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops breaking sales records just like its series predecessor, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. MW2 was also 2009’s Most Pirated Game, with 4.1 million PC downloads, and now, Black Ops has just beaten that record, with 4.27 million PC downloads, becoming 2010’s Most Pirated Game of the year – a not so dubious honour in a year full of blockbusters.
[RELATED_ARTICLE]The list of top 10 illegal game torrent downloads, compiled by TorrentFreak, can be seen below:
PC
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (4,270,000)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (3,960,000)
- Mafia 2 (3,550,000)
- Mass Effect 2 (3,240,000)
- Starcraft II (3,120,000)
Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1,470,000)
- Wii Party (1,220,000)
- Donkey Kong Country Returns (920,000)
- Kirbys Epic Yarn (880,000)
- Red Steel 2 (850,000)
Xbox 360
- Dante’s Inferno (1,280,000)
- Alan Wake (1,140,000)
- Red Dead Redemption (1,060,000)
- Halo Reach (990,000)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (930,000)
Who knows, we might soon be seeing PS3 games on that list in 2011, with the apparent success of the fail0ver PS3 jailbreak.
Disclaimer: Digit, like all other media houses, gives you links to online stores which contain embedded affiliate information, which allows us to get a tiny percentage of your purchase back from the online store. We urge all our readers to use our Buy button links to make their purchases as a way of supporting our work. If you are a user who already does this, thank you for supporting and keeping unbiased technology journalism alive in India.