Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.
We may earn a commission from links on this page

Call of Duty: Black Ops Nabs 'Most Pirated Game of 2010' Distinction

We may earn a commission from links on this page.

Not only is Call of Duty: Black Ops one of the fastest selling video games of all time, racking up more than a billion dollars in sales in 2010, it's also impressively enough one of the most illegally downloaded.

According to a report from BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the PC version of Black Ops has been pirated an impressive 4.2 million times. The newest Call of Duty bested Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (3.96 million downloads), Mafia II and Mass Effect 2 to take home the most-stolen crown.

Advertisement

Thieves who own an Xbox 360 did their share in Black Ops stealing, downloading that console version 930,000 times, according to TorrentFreak's numbers. Dante's Inferno wound up being the most downloaded Xbox 360 game, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 sitting atop the most pirated list on for Wii owners. Congratulations all around!

More impressive numbers at TorrentFreak.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Most Pirated Game of 2010 [TorrentFreak]