Top iPad Game Apps: Treasures of Montezuma Enters Top Ten

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with The Treasures of Montezuma HD, Skee-Ball HD and NinJump HD currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid titles are: 1. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 2. The Treasures of Montezuma HD ($4.99) 3. Skee-Ball HD ($1.99) 4. Scrabble for iPad ($9.99) 5. Pinball HD ($0.99) 6. Fruit Ninja HD ($4.99) 7. Finger Physics HD ($0.99) 8. Plants vs. Zombies HD ($9.99) 9. Words With Friends HD ($2.99) 10. Geometry Wars Touch ($0.99) Alawar's match-three gem puzzler The Treasures of Montezuma HD successfully capitalizes on the absence of a native iPad version of PopCap's Bejeweled, and trails Angry Birds HD as today's second-best selling iPad game. An enhanced iPad version of Freeverse's iPhone hit Skee-Ball follows at third place in today's rankings, as Pinball HD, Finger Physics HD, and Geometry Wars Touch returns to the charts after dropping in price to 99 cents each. Here are this week's top free iPad applications: 1. NinJump HD 2. We City for iPad 3. The Treasures of Montezuma HD Lite 4. Pocket Frogs 5. Rocketeer HD 6. GT Racing Motor Academy HD Free 7. Art Puzzles HD 8. Real Solitaire Free for iPad 9. Museum of Thieves 10. Glow Hockey 2 HD Free Backflip Studios takes the top spot in today's free chart with NinJump HD, as ngmoco's recently released We City follows at second place. The Lite version of The Treasures of Montezuma HD takes third, leading to a boost in popularity for the paid edition, as NimbleBit's free-to-play Pocket Frogs remains a popular download at fourth place. Newcomer Rocketeer HD lands at fifth place in its debut week, meanwhile, as the find-the-differences puzzler Museum of Thieves premieres ahead of Glow Hockey 2 HD at ninth place.