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Tetris, Bejeweled Boast Fast Sales On iPhone Game App Charts

Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Tetris and Bejeweled to The Price Is Right: Decades and more.

Danny Cowan, Blogger

December 12, 2011

2 Min Read

[Every week, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games currently available on the iTunes App Store.] This week's top paid iPhone game titles on the App Store, as captured on December 12th 2011, are as follows: 1. Angry Birds Seasons ($0.99) 2. Angry Birds ($0.99) 3. Tetris ($0.99) 4. Bejeweled ($0.99) 5. The Price Is Right: Decades ($0.99) 6. Fruit Ninja ($0.99) 7. Cut the Rope ($0.99) 8. Tiny Wings ($0.99) 9. Words With Friends ($2.99) 10. Flick Kick Field Goal ($0.99) Recent content-expanding updates spur increased sales for Rovio's Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons this week. EA's relaunched Tetris drops to third place after topping the charts last week, as a similar Bejeweled re-release from PopCap enters the top ten at fourth. Ludia's The Price Is Right: Decades takes fifth place after a successful recent debut, as recent favorites like Infinity Blade II and Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies disappear from chart range as App Store customer attention shifts to lower-priced titles like Fruit Ninja and Tiny Wings Here are this week's top free iPhone games: 1. Modern War 2. Very Hungry Cat 3. Ponon! Deluxe 4. Arms Cartel 5. Bakery Story: Christmas 6. Archery World Cup 7. The Merry Manor 8. Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift 9. Paper Toss 2.0 10. Snowy Farm Funzio's war-themed sim title Modern War leads the iPhone's free charts this week, beating out iDevUA's arcade-styled action game Very Hungry Cat and Mybo's puzzler Ponon! Deluxe. Other popular downloads include Pixel Addicts' multiplayer RPG Arms Cartel, ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift, and Backflip Studios' recently released Paper Toss 2.0.

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Danny Cowan

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Danny Cowan is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist for Gamasutra and its subsites. Previously, he has written reviews and feature articles for gaming publications including 1UP.com, GamePro, and Hardcore Gamer Magazine.

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