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This is the audio from the Microsoft Keynote from CES 2009.

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It was just announced at CES that Halo Wars will be available on February 28th with a demo hitting Xbox LIVE on February 5th.

Sitting backstage amid a flurry of activity, I am now set up with my work space to record the complete keynote audio for posting later today.

In addition, I’ll be live blogging the keynote using Coveritlive (below.) This is much more interactive and easier to follow since no refresh is required…just sit back and I do most of the the work. 

The keynote kicks off tonight at 7pm local time here in Las Vegas (find out what time that is in your time zone)  and I’ll start the live blog about 30-minutes before. Drop in and join us!

Before, during and after the Keynote, head on over to our IRC Server if you want chat directly with others as well.

I on my way to Sin City for the rest of the week. We’ve got the Microsoft CES keynote Wednesday night (which I will be live blogging) and the Capcom Street Fighter IV event Thursday night. Keep an eye on Inside Xbox for video coverage directly from the show floor and if you are going to be attending CES this year keep an eye out for me (and my video crew) to let me know what electronic hottness I should take a be covering. See you on the show floor.  

Posted at the SeaTac Main Terminal

P.S. If you want to keep up on what is going on to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, check out my new Marketplace Blog (currently in Beta) that is automatically updated throughout the day.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)

1 CoD: World at War
2 Halo 3
3 Gears of War 2
4 Call of Duty 4
5 Left 4 Dead
6 Guitar Hero World Tour
7 GTA IV
8 Fallout 3
9 Madden NFL 09
10 Fable II

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Castle Crashers
2 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
3 Worms
4 Puzzle Arcade
5 UNO®
6 A Kingdom for Keflings
7 Banjo-Kazooie
8 N+
9 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
10 Braid

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Fable
4 Counter-Strike
5 Conker: Live Reloaded
6 Splinter Cell Chaos
7 Star Wars: Battlefront
8 Doom 3
9 Burnout 3
10 Call of Duty 3

Top Community Games NEW! (Full Versions purchased)
1  Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp
2  Word Soup
3  Fireplace
4  CarneyVale Showtime
5  Weapon of Choice
6  EZMuze Break and House edition
7  Dr. Popper
8  Machiavelli's Ascent
9  sin(Surfing)
10  Snowmans Dilemma

These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Community Games, full versions purchased during the week.

Street Fighter IV won’t be out for another month, but if you are in Las Vegas later this week I’ve got some great news for you. Capcom is giving you, well twenty of you, a chance to get your hands on it early. As in way early…as in this week. In addition, we’ll take the best SF IV player and put you up against the best Playstation Blog SF IV player. It’s a cross platform Battle Royale. Interested in defending our honor? If you are 18 years of age or older, and you are in the greater Las Vegas area send me an email (Major at Xbox dot com) with your Gamertag, your real name and why you deserve to be in on the action. Only 20 players can represent Xbox 360 since it will be a tight fit in the Capcom suite. Head over to the Capcom blog  for more details and I’ll see some of you on Thursday.

Last year was a great year to be an Xbox 360 gamer as is evident by the quality of titles that Xbox LIVE members were playing. After a few days of number crunching, here are the top games for 2008 based on Xbox Live connectivity.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)

 Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)

The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)

I thought I’d post some of the statistics that MajorNelson.com and my audio show rang up for the past year. I want to thank everyone who drops by to make this one of the most active Gaming communities on the internet. 

During 2008, I made 701 blog posts that generated over 50,000 comments.

Top 10 Countries that visit MajorNelson.com

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada 
4. Germany 
5. Australia 
6. Netherlands 
7. Spain 
8. Sweden 
9. France 
10. Mexico

Top 5 Browsers viewing MajorNelson.com 

1. Firefox 
2. Internet Explorer 
3. Safari 
4. Opera 
5. Chrome 

Top sites sending traffic to Majornelson.com 

1. Kotaku.com
2. Google.com 
3. Xbox360fanboy.com 
4. Forums.xbox.com 
5. Joystiq.com 

Major Nelson Radio (my weekly audio blogcast/podcast)
Number of shows produced in 2008: 42
Number of show downloads in 2008: 9.3 million
Average show length: One hour and seven minutes

MajorNelson.com registered users

7,667 users registered in 2008 bringing us to a total of 19,472 registered users

Average Gamerscore of registered users: 16,224

Chat stats from our IRC server at chat.majornelson.com:
Unique MN.com users that have connected and logged in to the chat: 166
Total users online during the VGAs: 343
Characters typed: 3,789,292

And finally, the number of emails received at Major-at Xbox-dot com during 2008: 61,512


Again, thanks for a great 2008 and I look forward to an even better 2009 with you.

Have fun, play fair and I’ll see you online.