Top iPad game apps: Midway Arcade heads charts in debut week

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Midway Arcade, Cut the Rope: Experiments and City Friends currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.]

This week's top paid titles are:

1. Midway Arcade ($0.99)
2. Where's My Water? ($0.99)
3. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99)
4. Kingdom Rush ($0.99)
5. Fruit Ninja HD ($2.99)
6. Angry Birds HD ($4.99)
7. Cut the Rope: Experiments HD ($1.99)
8. The Sims: Medieval for iPad ($2.99)
9. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99)
10. Final Fantasy Tactics for iPad ($17.99)

Warner Bros' recently launched retrogaming compilation Midway Arcade earns top honors in today's iPad sales chart, overtaking Disney's former chart champion Where's My Water?

An iPad version of Square Enix's strategy-RPG Final Fantasy Tactics also reports fast sales in its debut week, as ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope: Experiments HD returns to the top ten following the release of a content-expanding update.

Here are this week's top free iPad applications:

1. City Friends HD
2. Cut the Rope: Experiments HD Free
3. Temple Run
4. Magic Puzzles
5. Wind-up Knight
6. Monopoly Hotels
7. Where's My Water? Free
8. Angry Birds HD Free
9. Words With Friends HD Free
10. Fairway Solitaire HD

Funverse's free-to-play sim title City Friends HD leads the iPad's free charts, edging out a trial version of ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope: Experiments HD.

Last week's chart winner Temple Run drops to third place in today's results, as Robot Invader's Wind-up Knight trails XIMAD's recent favorite Magic Puzzles at fifth.

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/162734/Top_iPad_game_apps_Midway_Arcade_heads_charts_in_debut_week.php

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