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GameFly Rental Chart Highlights: Week Ending May 16th

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 May 16th, show pop...

Simon Carless, Blogger

May 17, 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 May 16th, show popularity for particular titles over multiple game formats. The cross-platform charts show The Collective's multiplatform adaption of the soon-to-open Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith holding fast in the top position, with Microsoft's purported Gran Turismo-beater Forza Motorsport holding fast in second for Xbox, and Sony's God Of War bounding back up to third place. In the Xbox chart, it's once again the same games in the same order when compared to last week's GameFly charts - Star Wars Episode III, Forza, and Doom 3. However the PlayStation 2 charts differ marginally more, keeping Star Wars Episode III and God Of War, and switching in Capcom's somewhat older but still action-hungry Devil May Cry 3. As for Nintendo's GameCube, the top two remain resolutely the same, with Resident Evil 4 at #1 and Star Fox Assault at #2, but the newly-released Donkey Konga 2 taking the third spot - though presumably bongo drums are not shipped through the mail alongside it, stunting its rental potential somewhat. As for the portable platforms, Pokémon Emerald continues to rule the roost for the Game Boy Advance, with Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap in second and Square Enix's card-happy Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories in third place. For the PSP, there's a shuffling of the top spots, with Sony's cartoony Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee at #1 and NBA Street Showdown at #2, closely followed by EA's Need for Speed Underground Rivals. Finally, the DS sees Pac Pix rushing triumphantly up to the top of the chart, with Yoshi Touch & Go next, and Wario Ware: Touched! in third position - Star Wars Episode III for the portable is creeping up the chart and is now in 5th position.

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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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