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Take-Two Interactive’s PS2 exclusive Grand Theft Auto: San Andre...

Take-Two Interactive’s PS2 exclusive Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Nov. 7 showed. The game earned an additional $1.07 million…

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in the week, for $2.25 million to date. But Electronic Arts (EA) had the most titles in the top 10, with 3 -- all for PS2: Madden NFL 2005 at #4 (up 2 in its 13th week, $217,410 in the week and $4.03 million to date), Def Jam: Fight for N.Y. at #8 (up 4 in its 7th week, $150,165 and $1.42 million) and NCAA Football 2005 at #9 (up 2 in its 17th week, $149,848 and $3.21 million). Activision had 2 titles in the top 10, both for PS2: Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 at #2 again in its 5th week ($267,121 and $1.52 million) and X- Men: Legends at #10 (down 3 in its 7th week, $149,154 and $1.20 million). Rounding out the top 10 were Midway’s Mortal Kombat: Deception for PS2 at #3 again in its 5th week ($219,272 and $1.24 million), LucasArts Entertainment’s Star Wars: Battlefront for PS2 at #5 (down one in its 7th week, $177,735 and $1.72 million), THQ’s WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw for PS2 at #6 in its first week ($174,740) and Microsoft’s Fable for Xbox at #7 (up one in its 8th week, $158,052 and $1.47 million).