Infinity Blade II Topples Angry Birds In iPad Chart 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 Infinity Blade II, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies and The Bard's Tale currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Infinity Blade II ($6.99) 2. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 3. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 4. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies ($6.99) 5. Where's My Water? ($0.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($2.99) 7. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) 8. Words With Friends HD ($2.99) 9. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 10. The Bard's Tale ($5.99) Chair Entertainment's anticipated action-adventure title Infinity Blade II tops the iPad's sales charts in its debut week, outselling Angry Birds HD and the recently updated Angry Birds Seasons HD. Activision's first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies also reports top sales in its first week of release, while a port of InXile's 2005 RPG The Bard's Tale premieres at tenth place in this week's chart results. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. Pretty Pet Juice Empire HD 2. The Merry Manor HD 3. Glass Tower 2 HD Free 4. Card Ace Casino HD 5. Shift 2 Unleashed for iPad 6. FairyFail 7. US Basketball HD 8. Angry Birds HD Free 9. Smarty: Find The Pair HD Lite 10. Blood & Glory Dream Cortex's time-management title Pretty Pet Juice Empire HD finishes as this week's most popular free iPad app, while AlphaWeb's recently released town sim The Merry Manor HD leads over former chart leader Glass Tower 2 HD Free at second place. EA's racer Shift 2 Unleashed for iPad claims fifth place during a limited-time free download promotion, meanwhile, as newcomer FairyFail overtakes US Basketball HD for sixth place.