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The PS2 version of Madden NFL 06 from Electronic Arts (EA) was ag...

The PS2 version of Madden NFL 06 from Electronic Arts (EA) was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Oct. 16. In its 10th week, the SKU…

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earned another $340,000, Rentrak said. EA had 3 other SKUs in the top 10: NBA Live 06 for PS2 at #2 (up one in its 4th week, $300,000), NCAA Football 06 for PS2 at #6 (up one in its 4th week, $200,000) and the Xbox version of Madden at #8 again in its 10th week ($190,000). No new games made the top 10. Activision had 3 SKUs in the top 10: Ultimate Spider-Man for PS2 at #3 (up one, 5th week, $250,000), X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse for PS2 at #7 (up 2, 5th week, $190,00) and the Xbox version of the latter at #10 (up 4, 4th week, $150,000). Midway Games had 2 SKUs in the top 10: The PS2 and Xbox versions of Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks at #4 (up one, 5th week, $240,000) and #9 (up one, 5th week, $160,000), respectively. Ubisoft’s Far Cry Instincts for Xbox moved up one to #5 in its 14th week ($230,000)… EA’s The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack became the best-selling PC game in the U.S. during Sept., its first month available, according to NPD Group data. World of Warcraft from Vivendi Universal Games was again #2 and Atari’s Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 was again #3. EA had 3 other SKUs in the top 10: Battlefield 2 at #4 (down 3 from Aug.), The Sims Deluxe at #7 (up one) and The Sims 2 at #8 (down 2). The only other 2 new games in the top 10 were Sony Online Entertainment’s EverQuest: Depths of Darkhollow Expansion Pack at #9 and THQ’s Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Winter Assault Expansion Pack at #10.