You coulda built Rome a few times.

Over at Subnova, Funkmon found an article with some stats about Xbox Live – and while it focuses mostly on how the 360 is more tightly integrated with XBL than the original box was, it contains a Halo stat that’s pretty amazing: one third of all hours logged on Xbox Live since the service went live in November 2002 – 500 million hours out of 1.5 billion – have been logged playing Halo 2. 500 million hours… that’s a pretty mind-numbing number. That’s more than 57,000 man-years.