Today, Microsoft and Epic Games announced Gears of War 3 surpassed one million worldwide pre-orders, making it the fastest pre-ordered Xbox exclusive title to reach this milestone in the history of the platform.
Over the course of four weeks, 1.29 million players played more than 11 million multiplayer matches. Here are some of the other interesting stats:
- 145 different countries participated in the beta
- 249 years worth of matches played
- More than 11 million matches completed
- More than 927 million kills recorded
- More than 131 million executions performed
- More than 23 million deaths by chainsaw
- Nearly 23 BILLION bullets fired
- 4.9 billion ribbons and 291M medals earned
- 435K people earned the Beta exclusive Thrashball Cole skin to use in the retail game when it launches in September
- 234K people earned the Beta exclusive Gold Retro Lancer to use in the retail game when it launches in September
Xbox Live's Major Nelson � Gears of War 3 Pre-Order Top 1-million


#gears3beta Stat of the day: 90% of matches were hosted on dedicated servers the last two days. 99.9% of Ranked matches were on ded server

#Gears3beta stat of the day. Shotgun starting percentages: Gnasher 72% , Sawed-off 28%

Stat of the Day #gears3beta Rifle starting preferences: Lancer 44.15%, Retro Lancer 41.2%, Hammerburst 14.65%

Bonus #gears3beta Stat of the Day: Sawed-off is a paltry 6% of all downs which is the same as Melee 6%

#gears3beta Stat of the Day: We have 22 gamertag variations on Cliff's (@therealcliffyb) name in the database.

#gears3beta Stat of the Day: % of kills by weapon - Gnasher 30%, Sawed-off 18%, Retro Lancer 13%, Arm Rip/Face Punch 11%, Lancer 8%, Frag 3%

#gears3beta Stat of the Day: We have at least one legit level 100 in the beta. Who else got their wings?
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