June 8th - June 14th


01. World of Warcraft
02. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer
03. Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer
04. Counter-Strike: Source
05. Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne
06. Battlefield 2
07. The Sims 3 (+3)
08. Guild Wars
09. Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer
10. Team Fortress 2 (-3)
11. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (+1)
12. Silkroad Online (-1)
13. Prototype (NEW)
14. Eve Online (-1)
15. Left 4 Dead (-1)
16. Combat Arms (-1)
17. The Lord of the Rings Online (-1)
18. Counter-Strike 1.6 (-1)
19. MapleStory (-1)
20. Call of Duty Multiplayer (-1)

Well, well. Perhaps not ALL boys on Xfire are girls, after all.

Sure, The Sims 3 improved a little bit more this week, but on the other hand, Prototype, also appeared on the charts. And let me tell you something. This is no girly-girl game. Just listen to these snippets from the description on Wikipedia.

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Prototype is a sandbox-style action game...

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The game is set in New York City as a virus infects people and the military attempts to put an end to it. The protagonist of the story is named Alex Mercer, who has enemy-absorbing and shapeshifting powers....

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Alex can also shapeshift into more specialized forms for attack, defense or sensory enhancement.

A shape shifting bad-ass guy trying to stop (or whatever he is doing) some military shit going on in New York City? That's some seriously manly stuff. Like, hair on your chest manly. Or like, baseball and beer manly.
It's even so manly that I no longer consider Xfire to be lost to the rainbow side of humanity.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, no. You can be queer if you want to, as long as my games stay manly.

As you can see, most of the changes happening on the charts is directly related to the success of Prototype and The Sims 3, but Team Fortress 2 is dropping a bit too much to be caused just by that. The game is obviously suffering from the good ol' "Oooh, a shiny new feature, let's play the game all the time for two weeks and then quit"-way of gaming. But, it goes to show that there are people out there seriously interested in playing TF2, if there are improvements made.

Another thing definitely worth noting is that we no longer have Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning with us on the charts. Which I believe is the first time since the game was released. I'm not quite sure what you guys think about the future of the game, but please share your thoughts!

Tomorrow I'm heading to check out the job I'll be doing for summer, so I have a couple of hours of riding a train, which I guess can be enjoyable.

Oh, please remember to add the Xfire Twitter account if you use twitter, for all the latest updates!


Hans