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In its 4th week available, Take-Two Interactive’s Red Dead Revolv...

In its 4th week available, Take-Two Interactive’s Red Dead Revolver for PS2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 30 showed Thurs. Rentrak said the title earned…

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an additional $322,485 in the week for a total of $1.03 million to date. The Xbox version of the game was again at #5, earning $194,433 in the week for a total of $617,141 to date. The only other game in the top 10 that wasn’t for PS2 was Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow for Xbox at #9 (up 3 in its 10th week, $141,355 in the week and $1.89 million to date). The only other publisher with more than one SKU in the top 10 was Electronic Arts with 2: Need for Speed Underground at #4 (up 3 in its 28th week, $204,151 in the week, $8.17 million to date) and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #10 (up 10, 15th week, $139,844 in the week, $3.14 million to date). Rounding out the top 10 were one game each from Midway Games, Eidos, Sony Computer Entertainment, Vivendi Universal Games and Atari: Respectively, NBA Ballers at #2 (up one, 8th week, $259,462 in the week, $2 million to date), Hitman: Contracts at #3 (down one, 6th week, $240,495 in the week, $1.62 million to date), Syphon Filter: Omega Strain at #6 (down 2, 4th week, $191,286 in the week, $602,729 to date), Van Helsing at #7 (down one, 4th week, $168,307 in the week, $578,060 to date) and Transformers at #8 (up one, 4th week, $141,451 in the week, $392,095 to date).