is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Jetpack Joyride 2 is the first mobile game I’ve loved in a very long time.

As a child, Sean Ray had a recurring dream in which he floated through the sky—no sound, no pressure, no gravity. Just soaring above the Earth. Euphoric. So, the first time he strapped on a jet pack ...

The dream of personal flight took a great leap forward last week as Jetpack Aviation unveiled its JB-9 jetpack in spectacular fashion. Lifting off from a boat, inventor and aviator David Mayman flew ...

I used to think that flying a jetpack was something I’d never be able to do. Jetpacks are too exotic, too expensive, and require a set of piloting skills that I simply don’t have. It’s not in the ...

Jetpack Aviation's David Mayman and Nelson Tyler have already brought honest-to-god jetpacks out of the pages of science fiction books and onto the market. Now, they plan to do the same with flying ...

Luke Muscat, the lead designer for Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, has announced a new game called Feed the Deep. This time, he's not backed by a studio and supported by colleagues ...

A person was spotted soaring high above Southern California using a jetpack. Again. On Wednesday, for the second time in six weeks, an unidentified person was seen flying using a jetpack near Los ...