Top iPad Game Apps: Skee-Ball HD Beats Angry Birds

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Skee-Ball HD, The Treasures of Montezuma and NinJump HD currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Skee-Ball HD ($1.99) 2. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 3. The Treasures of Montezuma HD ($4.99) 4. Doodle Fit ($0.99) 5. Osmos for iPad ($1.99) 6. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 7. Scrabble for iPad ($9.99) 8. Robot Unicorn Attack HD ($0.99) 9. Pinball HD ($0.99) 10. Plants vs. Zombies HD ($9.99) Freeverse's Skee-Ball HD tops iPad game sales in its second week of release, pushing longtime chart leader Angry Birds HD to second place. Alawar's Bejeweled clone The Treasures of Montezuma HD drops to third place, as Gamelion's shape puzzler Doodle Fit makes its chart debut at fourth. Hemisphere's Osmos for iPad finds a new surge of popularity after being featured in a recent and ongoing Apple sale, as newcomers Cut the Rope HD and Robot Unicorn Attack HD make impressive showings in their premiere week. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. NinJump HD 2. The Treasures of Montezuma HD Lite 3. Sherlock Holmes Difference 4. Real Solitaire Free for iPad 5. Pocket Frogs 6. Aces Traffic Pack Classic HD 7. GT Racing Motor Academy HD Free 8. Glow Hockey 2 HD Free 9. Cut the Rope HD Lite 10. Ultimate Race Backflip Studios leads free iPad downloads for the second week running with its hit action game NinJump HD. A trial edition of Alawar's The Treasures of Montezuma HD follows at second place, as Sherlock Holmes Difference claims third. Demo versions of Gameloft's GT Racing Motor Academy and Chillingo's Cut the Rope HD also rank as popular downloads, while NimbleBit's Pocket Frogs maintains a dedicated player base more than three weeks after its initial release.