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A senior advisor to the British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the Tory leader spends a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad”. The Telegraph reports that the PM has also ordered a special app on his iPad that will give him a management …
Read More »Fruit Ninja Kinect reaches 1m downloads
The Kinect version of Halfbrick’s popular game Fruit Ninja has been downloaded 1 million times via Xbox Live Arcade. The figure comes less than a year after the game’s XBLA launch in August 2011. "Hitting 1 million downloads for XBLA is an awesome achievement," said Phil Larsen, chief marketing officer …
Read More »GDC: Fruit Ninja Kinect hits 1 million downloads
Halfbrick studio's iOS hit now a triumph on XBLA
Read More »Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja sells 500k on Kinect
Console experiment adds to studio success as Jetpack Joyride passes 14m downloads
Read More »Halfbrick scoops MCV Pacific developer award
Fruit Ninja outfit takes Developer of the Year award as top Australian studio
Read More »Fruit Ninja sequel planned as Govt backs Halfbrick
New Sydney studio plans to release iOS title next year
Read More »New Sydney studio for Fruit Ninja stars
Halfbrick looking for programmers, artists and designers
Read More »Fruit Ninja sales outpaced by new Halfbrick game
Jetpack Joyride downloaded more than 350,000 times in a week
Read More »Halfbrick bringing Fruit Ninja to table top / card games
Buried in a press release from Mattel is mention of a series of products coming out based on Halfbrick Studios’ successful Fruit Ninja franchise. The press release states that Mattel will be capturing ‘the essence of Fruit Ninja’s fast-paced play with an innovative line of table-top and card games inspired …
Read More »Australian iOS games dominate app store
The current top 5 paid apps on the iOS App Store contains not one but three Australian-made games from Firemint and Halfbrick. The newly released SPY Mouse from Firemint Studios in Melbourne is currently the #1 selling iPhone game, and is receiving very positive reviews. It expands upon the team’s …
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