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GameFly Rental Chart Highlights: Week Ending July 11

This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending July 11th, show po...

Simon Carless, Blogger

July 12, 2005

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This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending July 11th, show popularity over multiple game formats. The cross-platform charts for this week shows Rare's Xbox-exclusive Conker: Live and Reloaded zooming cheekily up to the top spot, and leapfrogging the previous champion, Pandemic/THQ's Destroy All Humans!, which slips a place into second. Still hanging around in third place overall is Sony's mythtastic PlayStation 2 exclusive God of War. Unsurprisingly, the Xbox chart for this week shows the same order for the top two - Conker: Live and Reloaded, followed by Destroy All Humans!, and the recently released Xbox SKU of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas conspires to make it into third position. Conversely, the PlayStation 2's top titles show an apparently buoyant Destroy All Humans propping up the top spot, with God Of War next in the pecking order, and a not yet defeated Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith back in third. Moving on to the GameCube, Capcom's distinctly unconventional Killer 7, which also debuted for PlayStation 2 this week, albeit lower on the charts, leapfrogs all the way to number 1, thanks to the relative lack of new GC titles. The evergreen Resident Evil 4 is in second, with Namco's critically frowned-upon Star Fox Assault back in third. Next up, we've got double Nintendo danger, and the practically undead Pokemon Emerald is in top spot once more, followed up by another Nintendo-created game, Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, and the likely more-than-cult Atlus-published RPG Riviera: The Promised Land. For the DS, however, the frantic puzzles of Meteos careen their way up into first, and further down the list, there's the well-received Kirby: Canvas Curse, and a little stealth action courtesy Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Finally, the PSP gets some new titles to add to the mix, with car-culture junkies going crazy over Rockstar's Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition in first, the Japanese-developed first person shooter surprise that is Konami's Coded Arms in second, and the enhanced conversion of Namco's Dead to Rights: Reckoning up in third.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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