Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment, or FADE in short, has released its annual report for 2009 for the Xbox Live Arcade market. FADE estimates that XBLA just broke the $100 million USD mark for the year ending 2009, at $103.4 million – a 34% increase from the year prior.

The Xbox Live Arcade market also became more frontloaded, due to the sales numbers among ‘Summer of Arcade’ titles such as ‘Trials HD’, ‘Shadow Complex’, and ‘Marvel vs. Capcom’. ‘Castle Crashers’, a 2008 ‘Summer of Arcade’ favorite, saw continued sales throughout 2009 – selling an estimated 485,000 copies during the year, bringing its sales to just under 1,000,000 units sold in total.

Estimated Top Titles by Revenue, 2009 (average price):

• Battlefield 1943 (EA Dice) – $12.5 million ($15.00)
• Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) – $7.3 million ($15.00)
• Trials HD (RedLynx, LTD) – $7.1 million ($15.00)
• Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment / Epic Games) – $6.1 million ($14.38)
• Family Game Night (Hasbro) – $4.2 million ($9.53)
• Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom) – $4.2 million ($15.00)
• Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) – $2.8 million ($10.00)
• Worms 2 (Team 17) – $1.8 million ($10.00)
• Peggle (PopCap Games) – $1.8 million ($8.86)
• Turtles in Time: Reshelled (Ubisoft Singapore) – $1.7 million ($10.00)