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It’s been an amazing year for Jetpack Joyride and the lovable Barry Steakfries has now entered the hearts of millions of people around the world! Thankfully, Barry’s heroics haven’t gone unnoticed and Jetpack Joyride has received remarkable coverage and stacks of great praise to close out the year.

The game was a staple on ‘Best Of’ lists the world over and we couldn’t be happier with the awesome response! This has further fuelled the fire at Halfbrick and we’re super excited to bring you even more awesomeness and game changing updates in 2012.

We’re also totally stoked to offer Jetpack Joyride FREE for a limited time as a special thank you to our brilliant fans who made the year so incredible.

Here’s a quick wrap-up of what the media had to say about one of Halfbrick’s biggest releases to date.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Gamasutra – Best of 2011: Top Mobile Game
“The game is a masterful rendition of the one-button platformer, offering tight arcade mechanics, constant gameplay variation, and loads of bonus content to unlock.”

TUAW – Best iPhone Game App of 2011
“Barry Steakfries has to be one happy camper today. The hero of Jetpack Joyride from Halfbrick Studios was the runaway (or shall we say fly-away?) winner of the voting for the best iPhone game app of 2011.”

UGO – iOS Game Of The Year
“We poured more time into Jetpack Joyride than just about anything else and its use of missions and achievements kept us going back again and again and that’s why it’s the iOS Game of the Year.”

GameRevolution – Best Mobile Game 2011
“We don’t review too many mobile games at GameRevolution, but Jetpack Joyride deserves special attention.”

App Store – Rewind 2011 iPhone Game of the Year, Runner-Up
“We love assuming the identity of Barry Steakfries in this fun, high-flying adventure game.”

TouchGen – Best Arcade, Editors’ Choice Awards
“The best of its genre, highly addictive, and kept fresh with frequent updates.”

MORE LINKS

New York Daily News – Best Tablet Game
TechCrunch – The Top 20 iPhone and iPad Games Of 2011
Entertainment Weekly – 10 Best Game Apps of 2011
Joystiq – Best of the Rest
TechnoBuffalo – Favourite iOS Games From 2011
Digital Spy – Top Handheld Games of 2011
USA Today – Game Hunters’ Top 10 Video Games of 2011
TouchArcade – 2011 TouchArcade Staff Favourites
VideoGamer.com – iOS Games of the Year 2011
Wired – The 20 Best Videogames of 2011
The New Yorker – Year In Apps

There’s not much more to say! After months of hard work and preparing for Halfbrick’s biggest game launch of 2011, we’ve finally made it and you can now play Jetpack Joyride on your iPhone and iPad!

The reviews have begun to flood in and we can be happier at the response to the game so far. We’re going to continue to update with the first new content coming very soon, so rest assured that more will be coming and we will be supporting our fans!

REVIEWS

Touch Arcade -- “I believe this is the highest praise a games journalist could possibly give a game.”
PocketGamer -- “A miracle, by all accounts.”
TouchGen -- “Jetpack Joyride is a delightfully challenging arcade romp that no iOS gamer should be without.”
IntoMobile -- “Jetpack Joyride is, quite simply, an amazing game.”
AppSpy -- “Jetpack Joyride trumps them all by packing together gorgeous designs with fun gameplay and replay value that’s bursting at the seams.”

Join Barry Steakfries as he breaks in to a secret laboratory to commandeer the experimental jetpacks from the clutches of science evildoers. After lift-off, simply touch the screen to ascend and release to descend, raining bullets, bubbles, rainbows and lasers downwards as you fly towards higher and higher scores!

The official trailer tells the story of how Steakfries goes from a humble gramaphone salesman to a high-flying action hero! Created by the same minds behind Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride is Halfbrick’s biggest mobile release of the year and is set to make a big splash all over the world. It will be available worldwide on September 1st as a universal game for both iPhone and iPad!

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Age of Zombies is now available for the Amazon Appstore, and to celebrate it will be free to download for launch day -- July 8th! We’ve created a sweet global trailer to showcase everything AOZ up until now, and we hope you can get involved with the ongoing Barry Steakfries saga!

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Today is an awesome new step for Barry Steakfries, hero of time and slayer of zombies! We have now released our awesome Age of Zombies, voted Best Playstation Mini of 2010, to the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Play!

This release includes all of the zombie-blasting action found in the current smartphone versions, but is an absolute dream to control with the Playstation Certified controls, including the two touch-sensitive thumbpads. As a dual-stick shooter, AOZ fits the Xperia controls perfecly and is a prime example on how to use the new hardware to its best abilities. We’ve put together a handy preview video above to show you a little bit about the Xperia Play and how AOZ works in action.

AOZ is currently available on the Android Market as an exclusive to Xperia Play, which means at this time it won’t function with other Android smartphones. However, in just a few short weeks we will have the full game up and running on the market on as many devices as possible, so stay tuned for all the latest AOZ news!

Welcome to 2011, where we are looking forward to releasing some truly rad new games for our awesome fans! We’re kicking up the action another notch (or seven) with our biggest and baddest mobile title yet coming in early summer 2011 – Machine Gun Jetpack!

The lovable hero Barry Steakfries returns to commandeer the experimental MGJP from a Maxtreme Industries laboratory and blast his way to awesomeness! It’s a simple, one-button experience where players control the height of Barry as he rockets through the air, spraying bullets towards the ground. Obstacles will appear including electricity fields, moving lasers and even high-powered missiles in an attempt to stop the onslaught of action.

Along the way, players can grab vehicle pickups including Gravity Suit Barry, the classic Badass Hog, a giant mech suit called Lil’ Stomper, and the bizarrely awesome Crazy Freaking Teleporter. These are just a sample of the range that will be available upon the release of MGJP.

To top everything off, coins can be collected to spend in-game on various cosmetic and functional upgrades. Want a top-hat? Sure. Double shields? Bam. A jetpack that looks like a shark’s jaws and shoots bullet teeth? Indeed so. The range of items to purchase in the shop will be massive, with additional content being added via ongoing updates.

We welcome feedback and comments on the progress of MGJP, which you can expect to release within the new few months. We’ll keep you updated on the progress and you can look forward to sweet new assets and information in the near future!