Halo 3 is an incredibly popular game. So much so that since its release in 2007, one billion games of Halo 3 have been played via Xbox LIVE. The one billion game milestone was broken in a three minute, nineteen second game of infection by four players.

While Bungie are proud of the achievement, they've attempted to put into context how long exactly the collective Halo 3 player-base has invested into to the game. It comes to a staggering figure - some 64,109 years of match-making and gameplay - without counting off-line or custom matches.


Bungie note that 64,000 years ago the following, Neanderthal walked the Earth, and "Modern Man" had yet to set foot in Asia. While collectively it is a staggering amount time - bear in mind that Halo 3 has sold around eight million copies world wide.

Halo 2, the previous effort from Bungie Software, in comparison has currently clocked up 798 million games, a far cry from the success of Halo 3 on the Xbox LIVE network.

If you're interested in the actual numbers, a blog post from Bungie outlines the figures down to the second - which is over two trillion seconds of gameplay.