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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The original Jetpack Joyride released during an early apex of the mobile market. Small but quality games were successful, and the platform was not yet ...

The Martin Aircraft Company's Jetpack has received approval from New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority to begin manned flight-testing. The Jetpack, powered by a 200 hp engine using regular auto fuel, ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Aerospace & Defence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Peter Coker spent his early career flying fighter jets for the Royal Air Force. Now the 60-year-old is close ...