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 ...

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 ...