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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

En garde! Fruit meets fairytales in the juiciest iPhone game this year -- Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots!

The suave fruit-slashing swashbuckler, Puss in Boots, faces a challenge that would make Sensei proud. His search for the Magic Beans brings him to developer Halfbrick’s legendary hit game Fruit Ninja. Prepare for a journey full of familiar and fruit slicing action he encounters a huge variety of new and exciting challenges!

Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots features the all-new Bandito mode! Slice through a series of increasingly exciting challenges to become the greatest Fruit Ninja warrior ever! Each stage thrusts you into never-seen-before fruit frenzy adventure: Massive fruit from the Giant’s castle, precision and timing challenges, all-out fruit onslaughts with new obstacles And for the first time EVER: Throw down against the most-requested addition in Fruit Ninja history -- the tomato!

Real Banditos must put their best blade forward because scoring is based on the number of fruit sliced, ninja reflexes and slicing efficiency. A true produce warrior can attain massive high scores and upload their best to Global Leaderboards to compare against friends and the best players online!

Bring your blade to Desperado mode -- an enhanced and re-mastered version of the Classic Fruit Ninja game that introduced 70 million players to the world’s biggest dojo! But this time, you will face even more fruit, unique waves and Puss in Boots’ elusive Magic Beans from the DreamWorks Animation feature film!

Finally, bask in the fruit-stained glory of Puss in Boots’ own exclusive ninja Stash, featuring a whole range of unique customizable content, including new backgrounds and blades with elements from both the film and Fruit Ninja.

Stay juicy, amigos!

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.”

Get ready to strap on your ninja gear because Fruit Ninja Kinect is on the way to Xbox Live Arcade! With an announcement and hands-on demonstrations with media last week at E3, Fruit Ninja Kinect is already one of the most anticipated downloadable games of 2011.

FNK brings all of the action that millions of fans worldwide have been playing for over a year and takes it to the next generation using full Kinect support for slicing the world’s most perfectly delicious produce! Classic, Zen and Arcade modes are all available with online leaderboards and challenges, along with two brand new multiplayer modes exclusive to FNK.

Battle Mode pits two players head to head in a juicy melee where they must slice fruit of their own color -- but the white fruit are up for grabs and can be sliced by any player! Team Arcade is cooperative madness, featuring more fruit on-screen than any other Fruit Ninja game before.

FNK is officially part of Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade promotion, so you can expect to see more news and announcements over the coming weeks leading up to release. Head over to the official page at Xbox.com to see all the media and marketplace content, and check out what some players had to say about their experience with the game at E3:]

NEW YORK TIMES
“I ran into this game by accident, and it provided the most fun I had in three minutes all week.”

DESTRUCTOID
“Fruit Ninja Kinect is surprisingly precise. In fact, it may be the most responsive Kinect game I’ve played to date, mirroring my actions one-to-one at a shocking smooth clip.”

CNN
“Conquering the Apple Store apparently wasn’t enough for these ninjas.”

GamePro
“I haven’t played many Kinect games that I really liked, but Fruit Ninja’s formula works incredibly will when paired up with the device, and plays like a natural party game.”

That’s pretty much all there is to it! We’ve just released a new update to Fruit Ninja HD for iPad (1.2.2) which resolves an annoying crash bug some of our fans were experiencing. However, that issue is no more thanks to the update, and to celebrate we’re putting the game on sale for the weekend! Over 60% off worldwide, you can now pick up FNHD for just US $0.99!

Simple as that guys -- get amongst it, and we promise to have more awesome content updates coming in the very near future!

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It’s round two for Raskulls Reinforcements, with four new characters stepping up to race against the best and four new tracks including the awesome Tempest Tunnels level! This is the final Raskulls DLC and available for download right now on Xbox Live for 160 Microsoft Points. The new additions to the team are:

– General Battlebones, proving that seniority means superiority
– Robot, who is some twisted scientist’s bizarre creation
– Witchdoctor, with more curses that you can shake a voodoo doll at
– Scurv, the final and dumbest of all the evil henchmen

Collect the final four characters to complete your full roster and hit the new levels with some serious power! We’re rounding off the huge range of content we’ve been creating for our dedicated fans, and want to thank the communtiy for their awesome support and spreading the word of Raskulls! Keep on racing and BONE ON!

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