Microsoft has announced that more than six million gamers worldwide are connected to Xbox Live.

Microsoft predicted the figure would be achieved by June 2007. More than 10 million Xbox 360s have hit store shelves since launch in November 2005, and more than 160 games are now available.

Following the launch of the Xbox Live online gaming network in November 2002, gamers have spent over 2.3 billion hours on the network playing games online with their friends around the world. This is equal to 95 million days of gaming or over 260,000 years.

The top title, however, remains Halo 2 for the original Xbox. Gamers have spent over 710 million hours playing online with over a half a billion games played.

The average Xbox Live Gold subscriber has 22 friends on his friends list. To date, Xbox 360 owners have unlocked nearly 300 million Achievements. All of those unlocked Achievements have created a total combined Gamerscore of nearly 7.5 billion.

Top WW Xbox Live Titles on Xbox 360 to date:

1 Halo 2

2 Gears of War

3 Hexic HD

4 Call of Duty 2

5 Ghost Recon 3

6 Call Of Duty 3

7 Oblivion

8 PGR3

9 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas

10 Perfect Dark Zero

(Based on the number of unique users)

Xbox Live Marketplace:

More than 70 per cent Xbox Live members are downloading content from Marketplace, driving more than 135 million downloads since the launch of Xbox 360.

Xbox Live Marketplace is home to more than 7,000 pieces of individual gaming and entertainment content.

Gamers have also quickly adopted the new Microsoft Points stored value system, with more than 5 billion points activated on Marketplace to date.

Xbox Live Arcade:

Two thirds of all connected consoles have downloaded Xbox Live Arcade titles. Xbox Live Arcade has now surpassed 25 million downloads.

Top worldwide Xbox Live Arcade titles on Xbox 360 to date (based on total number of full game downloads) are as follows:

1. Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting

2. Bankshot Billiards 2

3. Marble Blast Ultra

4. Uno

5. Doom