Top iPad Game Apps: Pocket RPG Sees Strong Debut

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Pocket RPG, Reckless Getaway and Lego Harry Potter currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 2. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 3. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) 4. Pocket RPG ($2.99) 5. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($2.99) 7. Reckless Getaway ($2.99) 8. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 ($2.99) 9. 9mm ($6.99) 10. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard HD ($6.99) Crescent Moon Games' Diablo-styled dungeon crawler Pocket RPG claims fourth place in the iPad's sales rankings in its debut week, challenging Rovio's reigning chart leaders Angry Birds Seasons HD, Angry Birds HD, and Angry Birds Rio HD. Polarbit's Reckless Getaway also reports impressive sales in its first week of release, as Lego Harry Potter enjoys a new surge of popularity coinciding with the release of the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. Racing Penguin, Flying Free 2. Cave Bowling 3. GT Racing: Motor Academy Free+ HD 4. Rows 3D for iPad Lite 5. Angry Birds HD Free 6. Run, Run, Chicken for iPad 7. Mr Giggle HD Lite 8. Angry Birds Rio HD Free 9. Eternity Warriors 10. My Clinic Arthur Lazarte's Racing Penguin, Flying Free tops the iPad's free chart for the second week in a row, fending off competition from Donut Games' Cave Bowling and Gameloft's GT Racing Motor Academy Free+ HD. Former chart champion Mr Giggle HD Lite drops to seventh in today's results, as Xmedia's recently released Run, Run, Chicken makes its first chart appearance at sixth place.