[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.]
As Apple continues a co-ordinated sale on some of its top titles, we explore the biggest-selling and most downloaded iPhone and iPod Touch games of the week, from
Osmos and
Peggle to
Duke Nukem 3D and more.
This week's top paid iPhone and iPod touch game titles on the App Store, as captured on October 4th 2010, are as follows:
1.
Angry Birds ($0.99)
2.
Super Monkey Ball 2 ($0.99)
3.
Need for Speed Shift ($0.99)
4.
Fruit Ninja ($0.99)
5.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($1.99)
6.
Peggle ($0.99)
7.
Osmos ($0.99)
8.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour ($0.99)
9.
Doodle Jump ($0.99)
10.
Chuzzle ($0.99)
Apple's ongoing "
Big Games, Great Prices" promotion results in boosted sales for a number of popular titles, including Hemisphere's
Osmos and Sega's
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and
Super Monkey Ball 2.
EA's
Need for Speed Shift and
Tiger Woods PGA Tour also return to the charts this week after dropping in price, while PopCap's
Peggle and
Chuzzle see impressive sales at sixth and tenth place.
Halfbrick's
Fruit Ninja drops to fourth place after taking second last week, while
Doodle Jump remains a popular pick in the face of tough competition from Apple's discounted titles.
Here are this week's top free iPhone and iPod Touch games:
1.
Duke Nukem 3D
2.
Attack Balls
3.
Extreme Jeep Free
4.
Pumpkin Maker Free
5.
Puff Puff Pass
6.
iJewels
7.
Sketch Nation Shooter
8.
GrandPar Golf
9.
Kingdoms at War
10.
Doodle Find
MachineWorks' iPhone adaptation of
Duke Nukem 3D tops the platform's free charts during a day-long free download promotion.
Engineous Games also enters the chart this week with a similar promotion for its customizable shoot-'em-up
Sketch Nation Shooter, which finishes behind
iJewels in today's results.
Other top titles in today's charts include BazilSoft's puzzler
Attack Balls, 1Games'
Extreme Jeep Free, and Sunstorm Interactive's pumpkin carving game
Pumpkin Maker Free.