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In its 9th week available, Take-Two Interactive’s Grand Theft Aut...

In its 9th week available, Take-Two Interactive’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PS2 was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Dec. 26 showed. Rentrak said…

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the title earned an additional $750,431, for a total of $9.06 million to date. Need for Speed Underground 2 for PS2 from Electronic Arts (EA) was again #2, in its 6th week ($388,681 in the week, $2.41 million to date), while Microsoft’s Xbox game Halo 2 was again #3, in its 7th week ($365,022 and $3.70 million), and the Xbox version of Underground 2 was again #4 ($249,581 and $1.51 million). EA had one other title in the top 10: Madden NFL 2005 for PS2 at #9 again, in its 20th week ($176,796 and $5.33 million). It was the only publisher with more than one title in the top 10. The only other Xbox title was LucasArts Entertainment’s Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords at #10 again, in its 3rd week ($161,801 and $404,959). Rounding out the top 10 were PS2 games: Activision’s Call of Duty: Finest Hour at #5 (up one, 6th week, $212,431 and $1.31 million), Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater at #6 (up one, 8th week, $189,336 and $1.10 million), Atari’s Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 at #7 (down 2, 5th week, $186,052 and $1.10 million) and Sony Computer Entertainment’s Killzone at #8 again, in its 8th week ($179,853 and $1.19 million).