Gamasutra - News - Top iPhone Game Apps: Angry Birds, Words With Friends Head Platform Sales

[In this weekly feature, Gamasutra 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 January 9th 2012, are as follows:

1. Angry Birds [1] ($0.99)
2. Words With Friends [2] ($0.99)
3. Fruit Ninja [3] ($0.99)
4. Where's My Water? [4] ($0.99)
5. Cut the Rope [5] ($0.99)
6. Bejeweled [6] ($0.99)
7. Tiny Wings [7] ($0.99)
8. Tetris [8] ($0.99)
9. Madden NFL 12 [9] ($0.99)
10. Doodle Jump [10] ($0.99)

Rovio's Angry Birds continues to lead App Store sales into 2012, outselling longtime favorites Words With Friends and Fruit Ninja.

Disney's physics puzzler Where's My Water? reports increased sales following a holiday content update, as EA's Madden NFL 12 returns to the charts at ninth place during a limited-time sale.

Here are this week's top free iPhone games:

1. Temple Run
2. Doodle Sprint!
3. Angry Gran
4. Egg Punch
5. Snappers
6. Pet Cafe
7. Bejeweled Blitz
8. Fluff Friends Rescue
9. Dark Galaxy
10. Tiny Village [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Imangi's autoscrolling 3D platformer Temple Run heads up the iPhone's free charts, as Wivvu's Doodle Sprint and AceViral's recently released Angry Gran follow at second and third place.

PopCap's free-to-play Bejeweled Blitz remains a popular pick at seventh place, meanwhile, as Dream Cortex's microtransaction-supported sim title makes its first chart appearance at eighth.

Links

1. ^{^} Angry Birds (itunes.apple.com)
2. ^{^} Words With Friends (itunes.apple.com)
3. ^{^} Fruit Ninja (itunes.apple.com)
4. ^{^} Where's My Water? (itunes.apple.com)
5. ^{^} Cut the Rope (itunes.apple.com)
6. ^{^} Bejeweled (itunes.apple.com)
7. ^{^} Tiny Wings (itunes.apple.com)
8. ^{^} Tetris (itunes.apple.com)
9. ^{^} Madden NFL 12 (itunes.apple.com)
10. ^{^} Doodle Jump (itunes.apple.com)
11. ^{^} Temple Run (itunes.apple.com)
12. ^{^} Doodle Sprint! (itunes.apple.com)
13. ^{^} Angry Gran (itunes.apple.com)
14. ^{^} Egg Punch (itunes.apple.com)
15. ^{^} Snappers (itunes.apple.com)
16. ^{^} Pet Cafe (itunes.apple.com)
17. ^{^} Bejeweled Blitz (itunes.apple.com)
18. ^{^} Fluff Friends Rescue (itunes.apple.com)
19. ^{^} Dark Galaxy (itunes.apple.com)
20. ^{^} Tiny Village (itunes.apple.com)

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