Machine Gun Jetpack Becomes Jetpack Joyride, Launches Next Week

Barry Steakfries' Next Adventure Set to Take Off on September 1

BRISBANE, Australia - Aug 22, 2011 - Australian developer Halfbrick -- the gifted college of music at the back the award-winning and best-selling Fruit Ninja authorization -- currently denounced a new name for Barry Steakfries's much-anticipated arriving colonnade action diversion -- Jetpack Joyride. The diversion is scheduled for let go on September 1, 2011, as a concept let go for mobile iOS platforms (iPhone and iPad).

Jetpack Joyride, formerly well known as Machine Gun Jetpack, features extravagantly resourceful and imaginatively propelled jetpacks that the player contingency guide by obstacles whilst pciking up coins, jumping in dumb vehicles and normally running amok! Jetpacks add the mythological Machine Gun Jetpack, but important new additions add the Steam, Rainbow and Bubble Jetpack, and, for all the sea life fanatics, the Shark Head Jetpack.

"Jetpack Joyride is simply the greatest mobile diversion we've ever made. It's action-packed but still really attainable to players of all ages." mentioned Phil Larsen, arch selling executive at Halfbrick. "We took value of our strengths as designers to emanate gameplay and touch-screen submit that may be accepted inside of seconds, but the extra layers of calm will keep players assigned for hours."

Jetpack Joyride will ascend players in to the ultimate exploit featuring the friendly and mischievous favourite Barry Steakfries, who prisoner hearts and bloody monsters in the previous Halfbrick mobile games, Age of Zombies and Monster Dash. To date the Steakfries authorization has reached over 1 million downloads worldwide.

In Jetpack Joyride, Barry has damaged in to an immorality scholarship laboratory and commandeered an initial appurtenance gun-propelled jetpack, that he right away straps to his back to make great his escape. With the world's many modernized and silly technologies slung over his shoulders, Barry contingency prevent butt traps, electrical fields, laser bombs and more as he races out of the lab whilst roving a surge of bullets, bubbles, lasers and rainbows.

In the ultimate diversion growth video, Halfbrick staff confer the new name whilst showcasing the gameplay and extra calm that has now done Jetpack Joyride a AAA mobile game.

As the launch of Jetpack Joyride approaches, fans can melody in any week to Halfbrick's YouTube duct (youtube.com/halfbrickstudios) for extra developer diaries heading up to Barry Steakfries' jubilant return.

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Founded in 2001, Halfbrick has been on the forefront of the Australian diversion growth attention for more than a decade. After years of experience building protected titles for platforms such as Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS™ and PSP (PlayStationPortable), the college of music has started expanding its portfolio with a operation of original self-published games for downloadable platforms. In 2010, Halfbrick became a of the many well well known eccentric developers in the world with the success of Fruit Ninja, Monster Dash and Age of Zombies on mobile devices, and other releases such as Raskulls and Fruit Ninja Kinect on Xbox LIVE Arcade. The college of music continues to emanate fun and unique games and looks to try new opportunities and technologies in the world of unintentional games development.