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New Games and Accessories: Its first week available, Microsoft’s...

New Games and Accessories: Its first week available, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game Mass Effect was the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Sunday. It was the only new…

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release in the top 10. The 360 version of Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare -- the previous week’s No. 1 title -- slipped to No. 4 in its third week, topped by the 360 and PS2 versions of Need For Speed: ProStreet in their second week… Call of Duty 4 was the best-selling PC game in the U.S. for the week ended Nov. 17, according to NPD data. But EA dominated the top 10, topped by Crysis at No. 2. The only other game in the top 10 not from EA was Sony Online Entertainment’s EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark Expansion Pack at No. 6… Atari’s games Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe are now available on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service. Three more Atari Classics are “coming soon” this holiday season, it said: Battlezone, Tempest and Warlords. All the Atari Classic games “support all Xbox 360 high definition resolutions up to 1080p” and digital surround sound, it said… Accessory maker ezGear introduced the 10- fret ezJam guitar for Guitar Hero II and III, which it called the “first guitar controller for both small and large hands.” The first model -- the wired ezJam S-10 -- is available for PS3 and Xbox 360 at $79.99 and comes in red, blue and pink. It includes a strum bar, tremolo bar, tilt sensor and guitar strap. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the company plans to add a wireless version to match the wireless guitars offered by Activision for Guitar Hero III.