Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may be the biggest game to hit this week, but the most talked-about is definitely The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In fact, Skyrim might be an even bigger hit than Modern Warfare 3 -- at least on Steam, where it nabbed 231,593 users within twenty-four hours!

By comparison, Activision's mass-marketing powerhouse welcomed 78,161 players within the same period. Bethesda's RPG has completely eclipsed Call of Duty on Steam, and one can only assume it'll be getting more and more users over the coming weeks.

That's absolutely ludicrous, but I cannot say it's not well deserved. Skyrim is, hands-down, my game of the year so far, and with a little over a month left of 2011, I can't see that changing.

Skyrim reaches nearly 250,000 concurrent Steam users on day one, topples MW3 [PC Gamer]