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Take-Two Interactive’s Red Dead Revolver for PS2 was again the #1...

Take-Two Interactive’s Red Dead Revolver for PS2 was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended June 13. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $233,145 in its…

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6th week, for $1.56 million to date. The Xbox version of the game was again #5 ($129,776 in the week, $925,264 to date). Electronic Arts (EA) and Sony Computer Entertainment also each had 2 SKUs in the top 10. EA’s -- both for PS2 -- were again Need for Speed Underground at #6 (down 2 in its 30th week, $127,711 in the week, $8.50 million to date) and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #10 again in its 17th week ($105,469, $3.38 million to date). Sony’s -- also both for PS2 -- were Syphon Filter: Omega Strain at #7 (down one in its 6th week, $122,502, $893,513 to date) and MLB 2005 at #9 (up 12 in its 13th week, $106,738, $1.18 million to date). There was one other Xbox title in the top 10: Vivendi Universal Games’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay at #4 (up 4 in its 2nd week, $136,760, $289,970 to date). The only other title in the top 10 that wasn’t for PS2 was Activision’s Shrek 2 for GameCube at #8 (up 5 in its 6th week, $110,981, $591,205 to date). PS2 titles that rounded out the top 10 were Midway’s NBA Ballers at #2 again in its 10th week ($171,197, $2.41 million to date) and Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts at #3 again in its 8th week ($153,354, $2 million to date).