Raptr: Come in Modern Warfare 2, your time is up

So we know Halo: Reach was a sales blockbuster, but did all those buyers rack up enough playtime to clinch the top spot on Raptr.com’s most-played games index?

Boy, did they ever.

Halo: Reach takes the title.

Halo: Reach rocketed into the top spot for September, despite only having been on sale for half the month. Not only did it pass Modern Warfare 2, which had had a lock on the top spot for almost a year, it was played nearly twice as much: well north of two million player-hours for Reach, compared with 900,000-odd for MW2.

Raptr -- a service that’s part instant-messaging program, part Facebook-style social network, and part achievement tracker -- also reveals some other fascinating nuggets of info about just how hooked we all are on Halo. About one-third of Reach players racked up over 30 hours in the game’s first week on sale, for example, and almost 12% had already played through the campaign on its hardest difficulty setting.

Further down the chart, it’s a predictable tale: most games slide down one or two spots to make room for Reach, but a couple of high-profile Facebook games made major gains this month. Farmville -- despite facing increasingly negative press and greater competition -- jumps three places to land in the number-four slot, narrowly ahead of Halo 3. And Bejeweled Blitz, 20th-placed in August, climbs a mighty 10 places to claw its way back onto the top ten.

* Raptr is a service which lets you see what your friends on Xbox, PS3, Steam, and Xfire are playing, chat in-game across popular IM and gaming services, and share game stats and achievements in your custom profile. You can download it at raptr.com.

Raptr: Come in Modern Warfare 2, your time is up