From Dust top grossing XBLA title

Microsoft has announced From Dust as the highest grossing game on Xbox Live Arcade in 2011. The game was downloaded 308,000 times and made a cool £2.9 million in the process.

The most downloaded game was Full House Poker, with an estimated 375,000 units sold (or £2.3 million).

Once again it was Xbox's Summer of Arcade that provided a majority of the bestselling games of the year, with seven of the top ten coming from that promotion.

Castle Crashers continues to prove popular. It has now sold over 2 million copies and is, according to analysts FADE (Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment); "the best selling and highest grossing title in downloadable console gaming history."

Fruit Ninja was the highest selling Kinect game, and RPGs had a good year on XBLA, with Bastion, Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale and Torchlight all making the top ten.

The complete top ten (of units sold) is as follows:

Full House Poker (Microsoft Game Studios) - 375,000 Units / £2.3M
Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) - 335,000 Units / £2.9M
Fruit Ninja Kinect (Halfbrick Studios) - 324,000 Units / £2M
From Dust (Ubisoft) - 308,000 Units / £2.9M
Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) - 286,000 Units / £2.5M
Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) - 278,000 Units / £1.7M
Torchlight (Runic Games) - 272,000 Units / £2.5M
Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Signal Studios) - 241,000 Units / £2.3M
Bastion (Supergiant Games) - 241,000 Units / £2.3M
D&D: Daggerdale (Bedlam Games) - 210,000 Units / £1.8M