Top iPhone Game Apps: Hungry Shark Ranks High in Free and Paid Charts

[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games, as current on the iTunes App Store.] This week's top paid iPhone game titles on the App Store, as captured on August 2nd, 2010, are as follows: 1. Angry Birds ($0.99) 2. Monopoly ($0.99) 3. The Game of Life Classic Edition ($0.99) 4. Doodle Jump ($0.99) 5. Fruit Ninja ($0.99) 6. Tiger Woods PGA Tour ($0.99) 7. Hungry Shark: Part 2 ($0.99) 8. Skee-Ball ($0.99) 9. Bejeweled 2 ($2.99) 10. Chopper 2 ($2.99) EA captures several chart spots this week with recent price drops for Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. Angry Birds remains the iPhone's overall top seller in the Games category, while Doodle Jump and Fruit Ninja fall to fourth and fifth place in today's rankings. Future Games of London's Hungry Shark: Part 2 finishes at seventh place this week, as Skee-Ball and Bejeweled 2 outsell App Store newcomer Chopper 2 at eighth and ninth place. Here are this week's top free applications: 1. Hungry Shark: Part 1 2. Tap Fish: Sharks 3. Namco Games Portal 4. Trucker's Delight: Episode 1 5. Brain Trainer 6. Zombie Shock 7. Whacksy Taxi 8. We Farm 9. Slingshot Cowboy 10. TheSlayers Free Hungry Shark leads as the iPhone's top game download this week, leading to a rapid rise in popularity for its sequel in the paid charts. Tap Fish: Sharks also emerges as a popular download in the wake of an apparent and inexplicable shark fad, as Namco's free game compilation Namco Games Portal trails at third place. Mobigame's Trucker's Delight: Episode 1 takes fourth place during a day-long free download promotion, as ngmoco's free-to-play social farming sim We Farm comes out ahead of Slingshot Cowboy in its debut week.