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New Games: A limited-edition holiday charity game pack—inclu...

New Games: A limited-edition holiday charity game pack -- including Xbox games Cars from THQ, Fuzion Frenzy from Microsoft and Open Season from Ubisoft -- is shipping nationwide to retailers at $29.99, the Entertainment Software Association Foundation announced. Proceeds…

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of the multidisc set will go to the ESA Foundation “to support positive programs for America’s youth,” it said. Retailers carrying the pack are Amazon.com, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Circuit City, CompUSA, Costco, Fred Meyer, Fry’s Electronics, Game Crazy, GameStop, Kmart, Meijer, the Nebraska Furniture Mart, Sam’s Club, Sears, Target, Toys “R” Us, Trans World Entertainment and Wal-Mart… Its first week available, the Xbox 360 version of Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the top-rented videogame, according to preliminary Rentrak Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Sunday. The PS3 version was No. 9. Call of Duty 4 was the only new release in the top 10. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game Halo 3 -- the previous week’s No. 1 game -- slid to No. 2 its seventh week… Hellgate: London by Electronic Arts was the best- selling PC game in the U.S. the week ended Nov. 3, according to NPD. A collector’s edition of the game was No. 2. EA’s Half-Life 2: The Orange Box followed at No. 3. Half-Life 2 was the best-selling PC game in the U.S. in October, NPD said. The standard version of Hellgate: London was No. 2, and the collector’s edition was No. 9. Two other new releases made the top 10: Atari’s Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer Expansion Pack at No. 3 and Her Interactive’s Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull at No. 7. EA’s The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack -- September’s top PC game - - fell to No. 6.