Top iPad game apps: Autumn Dynasty, Air Mail report strong first-week sales

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Fruit Ninja HD, Autumn Dynasty and Air Mail currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Angry Birds Space HD (Rovio, $2.99) 2. Where's My Water? (Disney, $0.99) 3. Fruit Ninja HD (Halfbrick, $0.99) 4. Bejeweled HD (PopCap, $3.99) 5. Autumn Dynasty (Bulkypix, $4.99) 6. Minecraft: Pocket Edition (Mojang, $6.99) 7. Draw Something (OMGPOP, $1.99) 8. Air Mail (Chillingo, $4.99) 9. Angry Birds HD (Rovio, $2.99) 10. Cut the Rope HD (ZeptoLab, $0.99) Rovio's Angry Birds Space HD reclaims top honors in the iPad's charts this week, while Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja HD returns to the top ten at third place following a recent update celebrating the title's two-year App Store anniversary. Last week's sales leader Bejeweled HD drops to fourth place, meanwhile, as Bulkypix's real-time strategy title Autumn Dynasty and Chillingo's flight sim Air Mail see fast-selling debuts at fifth and eighth place. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. Cut the Rope: Experiments HD (ZeptoLab) 2. Subway Surfers (Kiloo) 3. Ducati Challenge HD (Digital Tales) 4. Men in Black 3 (Gameloft) 5. Trade Nations (Z2Live) 6. Mega Run (Get Set Games) 7. PipeRoll HD (Navigation-Info) 8. Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? & Friends Free (Ludia) 9. Island: The Lost Medallion HD (Big Fish Games) 10. Domino's Pizza Hero (Domino's Pizza) Kiloo's endless runner Subway Surfers captures second place in the free app rankings in its debut week, challenging Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, which was released as a free download after being named Apple's App of the Week. Last week's second-place title Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? & Friends Free falls to eighth place, while Gameloft claims fourth place with a recently launched free-to-play simulation game based on the film Men in Black 3.