Since its release, Halfbrick’s Jetpack Joyride has done what the casual observer would call “well.” But let’s be honest: the casual observer doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This game has been downloaded over 35 million times, won a design award from Apple themselves, and captured the hearts and jetpack-loving minds of mobile gamers everywhere. That’s a lot more than just “well.” So take that, casual observer! Whoever you are. 

Halfbrick has announced the next new and exciting update to Jetpack Joyride, a free iOS game that we loved and continue to love several times over. In fact, just about the only thing we love more is when Jetpack Joyride gets new updates to make it even more awesome.

If there's something that seems to be paying off for casual developers, it's taking a popular game and making it free-to-play. Last month, it turned out that Temple Run had quadrupled its income when it went free, and now it seems like Jetpack Joyride is repeating this particular piece of history.

In his short career as an iPhone action hero, Barry Steakfries has been a lot of things. He was a long distance runner in Monster Dash. He was a top down Rambo in Age of Zombies. And now, thanks to Jetpack Joyride, Barry can add amateur Wright Brother to the list.