Top iPad Game Apps: Bike Baron Leads Platform 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 Bike Baron, Real Racing 2 HD and Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots HD currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Bike Baron ($0.99) 2. Real Racing 2 HD ($3.99) 3. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 4. Words With Friends HD ($0.99) 5. Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots HD ($1.99) 6. Where's My Water? ($0.99) 7. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 8. Scribblenauts Remix ($4.99) 9. Siegecraft ($0.99) 10. Fruit Ninja HD ($2.99) Mountain Sheep's physics-based racer Bike Baron heads up the iPad's sales charts after being named as Apple's iPad Game of the Week, with Firemint's Real Racing 2 HD and a recently updated Angry Birds Seasons HD following at second and third place. Halfbrick's film-based Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots HD takes fifth place in its premiere week, while last week's chart winner Scribblenauts Remix trails Where's My Water? and Angry Birds HD at eighth. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. Card Ace Casino HD 2. Six Towers HD 3. Go! Football HD 4. Mr Giggle 2 HD Lite 5. Angry Birds HD Free 6. Unstoppable Robots 7. Family Feud & Friends 8. Mr Giggle HD Lite 9. Contract Killer: Zombies 10. Forever Drive Self Aware Games' Card Ace Casino HD leads the free charts this week, overtaking recent favorites Six Towers HD and Go! Football HD. Ludia's social game show app Family Feud & Friends makes its chart debut at seventh place this week, as newcomer Forever Drive ranks in at tenth.