Top iPad Game Apps: Crescent Moon's Gears Leads Charts in Premiere Week

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Gears, Order & Chaos and Paradise Island HD currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Gears ($0.99) 2. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 3. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 4. Angry Birds Rio HD ($2.99) 5. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 6. Order & Chaos Online ($6.99) 7. Fruit Ninja HD ($2.99) 8. Words With Friends HD ($2.99) 9. ZombieSmash HD ($1.99) 10. NBA Jam for iPad ($9.99) Crescent Moon Games leads this week's iPad charts with its recently released ball-rolling action game Gears. A trio of Angry Birds games follow at second, third, and fourth place, as ZeptoLab's hit puzzler Cut the Rope returns to the charts this week at fifth. Gameloft's World of Warcraft clone Order & Chaos Online takes sixth place in its premiere week, leading over popular favorites Fruit Ninja HD and Words With Friends HD. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. Angry Birds Rio HD Free 2. Paradise Island HD 3. Simply Find It 4. Fishing Joy HD 5. Angry Birds HD Free 6. Fish Tales 7. Tiny Zoo 8. Words With Friends HD Free 9. Angry Birds Seasons HD Free 10. Braveheart HD Rovio's Angry Birds Rio HD Free remains the iPad's top free download for the second week in a row, but faces new competition from Game Insight's microtransaction-supported resort sim Paradise Island HD. Simply Game's spot-the-differences puzzler Simply Find It climbs to third following a recent update, while newcomer Fishing Joy HD overtakes Angry Birds HD Free for fourth place.