Cork man's 'Dangerous Joe' gamble pays off

AN IRISH-born entrepreneur topped the charts last month with iPhone app ‘Joe Danger’.

Made by Hello Games, Joe Danger’s eponymous main character is a motorbike-riding, daredevil stuntman based on the seventies toy, Evel Knievel.

Despite describing itself as a ‘tiny indie studio’, the Guildford-based games studio launched its first game Joe Danger in 2010 to critical acclaim, becoming one of the highest reviewed games on PlayStation 3.