Top iPad Game Apps: Gameloft Beats Angry Birds During 99-Cent Sale

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with N.O.V.A. 2, Battleheart and Dino Rush currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid iPad games are: 1. N.O.V.A. 2 HD ($0.99) 2. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 3. UNO HD ($0.99) 4. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 5. Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles HD ($0.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($0.99) 7. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 8. Battleheart ($0.99) 9. Dungeon Hunter HD ($0.99) 10. Words With Friends HD ($2.99) Gameloft captures several chart spots this week after dropping its first-person shooter N.O.V.A. 2, card game adaptation UNO HD, action-RPG Dungeon Hunter, and Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles to 99 cents each. Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and Fruit Ninja remain strong sellers on the iPad, as newcomer RTS Battleheart enters the charts at eighth place after being named as Apple's iPad Game of the Week. Here are this week's top free iPad games: 1. Dino Rush 2. Sand Slides 3. Holes and Balls 4. Angry Birds HD Free 5. Paradise Island HD 6. Ridge Racer Accelerated HD 7. Angry Birds Seasons HD Free 8. TinkerBox 9. WhackaMonsta 10. Max Adventure Free Nemoid Studio's auto-scrolling platformer Dino Rush claims top honors in the iPad's free charts during a day-long free download promotion, pushing last week's chart leaders Sand Slides and Holes and Balls to second and third place. Paradise Island HD and Ridge Racer Accelerated HD remain popular picks among App Store customers in their second week of release, as DanLabGames' WhackaMonsta and Imangi Studios' Max Adventure Free enter the charts at ninth and tenth place.