Top iPad Games: Battleheart Challenges Dead Space

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Battleheart, Monster Dash, TinkerBox and Pac-Man Battle Royale currently ranking among the platform's top downloads.] This week's top paid iPad games are: 1. Angry Birds HD ($4.99) 2. Cut the Rope HD ($1.99) 3. Fruit Ninja HD ($0.99) 4. Monster Dash ($0.99) 5. Angry Birds Seasons HD ($1.99) 6. Dead Space for iPad ($9.99) 7. Battleheart ($2.99) 8. Scrabble for iPad ($9.99) 9. Pinball HD ($0.99) 10. Plants vs. Zombies HD ($6.99) EA's Dead Space drops to sixth place after debuting at second last week, as Chillingo's Cut the Rope HD, Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja HD, and Monster Dash climb the charts to claim second, third and fourth in today's rankings. Mika Mobile's real-time strategy game Battleheart takes seventh place in its first week of release, meanwhile, leading over chart mainstays Scrabble for iPad, Pinball HD, and Plants vs. Zombies HD. Here are this week's top free iPad games: 1. TinkerBox 2. Pac-Man Battle Royale 3. Restaurant Story: Valentine's Day 4. Coin Dozer for iPad 5. Angry Birds HD Free 6. Rows 3D for iPad Lite 7. Ninja Chicken 2: Shoot'em Up HD 8. Flick Kick Field Goal Kickoff 9. Kick Buttowski: Loco Launcho 10. The Little Crane That Could Several popular recent releases top the iPad's free game rankings, pushing former chart leader Angry Birds HD Free to fifth place in today's results. Autodesk's physics puzzler TinkerBox claims the top spot, followed by an iPad-exclusive trial version of Namco's arcade game Pac-Man Battle Royale. A Valentine's Day-themed version of TeamLava's Restaurant Story also ranks as a top download this week, while Game Circus's Coin Dozer leads over Pixeltin's Rows 3D and Disney's Kick Buttowski.