In this weekly feature, Gamasutra rounds up the week's most popular paid
and free iPhone and iPod Touch games, as current on the FIFA Coins iTunes App Store.]This
week's top paid iPhone game titles on the App Store, as captured on December
19th 2011, are as follows:1. Angry Birds ($0.99)2. Grand Theft Auto III
($4.99)3. Fruit Ninja ($0.99)4. Angry Birds Seasons ($0.99)5. Bejeweled
($0.99)6. Kick the Buddy ($0.99)7. Sonic CD ($4.99)8. Cut the Rope ($0.99)9.
Tetris ($0.99)10. Tiny
($0.99)The iOS port of Rockstar's open-world crime drama Grand Theft Auto III
racks up impressive sales in its premiere week, but Buy FIFA 18 Coins comes up short against
Rovio's chart-leading Angry Birds.EA's Tetris reports a sharp sales decline
after topping last week's chart, meanwhile, as PopCap's relaunched Bejeweled
outsells AppZap's stress-relief title Kick the Buddy and Sega's 16-bit
platformer Sonic CD at fifth place.Here are this week's top free iPhone games:1.
Kick the Buddy Free2.
Story 23. The Sims FreePlay4. Social Girl5. Temple Run6. Bakery Story:
Christmas7. Very Hungry Cat8. FreeAppWall9. Pretty Pet Salon Seasons10. Modern
WarA trial version of AppZap's Kick the Buddy heads the free app charts,
resulting in a sales boost for the paid edition. TeamLava's Zoo Story 2 follows
at second place, as EA's The Sims FreePlay takes third.Last week's chart winner
Modern War drops to tenth place in today's results, meanwhile, as iDevUA's
recently released Very Hungry Cat falls to seventh after previously placing
second.
GDC 2012 organizers have announced a trio of new Summit talks for the
upcoming show, examining the localization of StarCraft II, new online game
genres, and the AI in titles like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, The Darkness
II, and Skulls of the Shogun.The GDC Summits will take place Monday, March 5
through Tuesday, March 6, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and will offer
specialized looks into emerging or otherwise influential sectors of the games
industry.The latest at https://www.mmogo.com/
