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Top iPhone Game Apps: Angry Birds, Cut the Rope Head New Year's Charts

Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Angry Birds and Snowy Farm to Tap Tap Revenge 4 and more.

Danny Cowan, Blogger

January 3, 2011

2 Min Read

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games, as current on the iTunes App Store, from Angry Birds and Snowy Farm to Tap Tap Revenge 4 and more.] This week's top paid iPhone game titles on the App Store, as captured on January 3rd 2011, are as follows: 1. Angry Birds ($0.99) 2. Cut the Rope ($0.99) 3. Fruit Ninja ($0.99) 4. Angry Birds Seasons ($0.99) 5. UNO ($0.99) 6. Doodle Jump ($0.99) 7. Family Feud ($0.99) 8. Skee-Ball ($0.99) 9. Super Monkey Ball 2 ($0.99) 10. Plants vs. Zombies ($2.99) Angry Birds remains the iPhone's top-selling game in the first week of 2011, leading over fellow longtime favorites Cut the Rope and Fruit Ninja. Gameloft's UNO returns to the top ten during a holiday sale, as a recent price drop puts Ludia's Family Feud ahead of Freeverse's Skee-Ball, Sega's Super Monkey Ball 2, and PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies. Here are this week's top free iPhone games: 1. Tap Tap Revenge 4 2. Pimple Popper Lite 3. Snowy Farm 4. Fruit Ninja Lite 5. Daily Spot the Difference 6. SpongeBob Marbles & Slides Lite 7. Shift 8. StickBo Pro 9. Angry Birds Lite 10. Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift Tapulous leads the iPhone's free games chart for the second week in a row with its microtransaction-supported rhythm title Tap Tap Revenge 4. Room Candy's novelty app Pimple Popper Lite follows at second place, as Gameview's seasonal FarmVille clone Snowy Farm takes third. Trial versions of Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds continue to drive sales for their paid editions, as Armor Games' Shift takes seventh place following the recent release of Shift 2.

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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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