Top-Grossing iOS Games: Hanging With Friends Climbs iPhone Charts

Every week, Gamasutra rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store. This week's U.S. revenue charts see Tap Pet Hotel and Hanging With Friends earning top iPhone sales, while Smurfs' Village and Fashion Story remain big sellers on the iPad. These charts allow end users to see who is making the most money on the App Store that day. It differs significantly from the Top 10 Games chart, which is ranked by sales, and therefore is dominated by lower-priced titles that sell more copies. Data comes courtesy of Apple's public sales information. All titles in the App Store's "Games" category are considered in chart rankings. This week's top-grossing iPhone titles are: 1. Tap Pet Hotel (Free) 2. Zynga Poker (Free) 3. Hanging With Friends ($1.99) 4. Tap Zoo (Free) 5. Texas Poker (Free) 6. Angry Birds ($0.99) 7. Fashion Story (Free) 8. iMobsters (Free) 9. Smurfs' Village (Free) 10. Infinity Blade ($2.99) Tap Pet Hotel keeps the iPhone's top chart spot for the second week in a row, maintaining its lead over the microtransaction-supported Zynga Poker and fellow Pocket Gems-published animal management sim Tap Zoo. Newtoy's Words With Friends spinoff Hanging With Friends claims fourth place in its debut week, meanwhile, as the free-to-play sim titles Fashion Story, iMobsters, and Smurfs' Village report big earnings in today's results. Here are this week’s top-grossing iPad applications: 1. Smurfs' Village (Free) 2. Tap Zoo (Free) 3. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 4. Fashion Story (Free) 5. Infinity Blade ($5.99) 6. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) 7. Texas Poker HD (Free) 8. Plants vs. Zombies HD ($6.99) 9. We Rule Deluxe for iPad (Free) 10. Ticket to Ride ($6.99) Capcom's Smurfs' Village and Pocket Gems' Tap Zoo report the highest sales of any iPad app this week, pushing former chart leader Angry Birds HD to third place. TeamLava's Fashion Story returns to the charts at fourth place following a recent update, as Infinity Blade remains a popular pick at fifth.