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In its first week available, the PS2 version of Take- Two Interac...

In its first week available, the PS2 version of Take- Two Interactive’s The Warriors was the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Oct. 23. The SKU earned $330,000 in…

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rentals during the week, Rentrak said. The Xbox version was #3 ($280,000). The top 10 included 2 other new games, both for PS2: Midway’s Blitz: The League at #7 ($200,00) and Activision’s Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland at #9 ($180,000). Midway and Activision each had one other game in the top 10, also both for PS2: Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks at #10 (down 7 in its 6th week, $180,000) and Ultimate Spider-Man for PS2 at #5 (down 3 in its 5th week, $230,000), respectively. EA also had 2 titles in the top 10, both for PS2: Madden NFL 06 at #2 (down one in its 11th week, $300,000) and NCAA Football 06 at #8 (down 3 in its 15th week, $190,000). Rounding out the top 10 were Sony’s SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs for PS2 at #4 (up 11 in its 2nd week, $230,000) and Ubisoft’s Far Cry Instincts for Xbox at #6 (down 2 in its 4th week, $210,000).