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Lock Up Your Cheese, There’s A Mouse In The House

Firemints long awaiting next title ‘Spy Mouse’ hits the App store. Find out what Firemint promise in their latest iOS game. Read more…

Firemint offering you the chance to win Spy Mouse

Do you like winning stuff from doing not much at all? Well I think someone over at Firemint knows the answer is YES.

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EA’s iOS Racing Sale This Weekend!

For those of you out there who like racing games and who own an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad this is for you! EA is having a sale for this weekend only of up to 80% off on a few of their racing iOS titles including the Real Racing franchise from Aussie development studio Firemint. Read more…

Prices are falling on PS3

If you have always wanted a PS3 but have never really wanted to part with the $500? Well your time has now arrived!

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Anomalous Interactive shoots Slingshot Justice at you for FREE

That’s right, there is no price better than free and our friends over at Anomalous Interactive know that, that’s why they are offering Slingshot Justice for free
for ever.

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Another gaming site opens a bar, this time in Adelaide

 

Gaming site Pimp.tv are opening a new gaming bar in South Australia, with room for large PC LAN competitions with food and drinks. Sounds delightful!

 

 

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Your GCAP Journey Starts in Melbourne 14 Nov 2011

The Game Connect Asia Pacific is Australia’s premier annual game development conference, exhibition and networking event for the Asia Pacific Games Industry and is administered by the Game Developers’ Association of Australia. After a very successful Gold Coast 2010 meet the conference is returning to Melbourne in 2011.

 

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Little Space Heroes – Send Your Kids into Space

Little Space Heroes is an Aussie made virtual world, currently in development by Bubble Gum Interactive. With the Beta fast approaching you or your kids can be the first in the world to sign up and play the game. To get involved with the beta read on. Read more…

Why The 3DS Price Drop Does Not Spell Doom For Handheld Gaming

Recently Nintendo announced a massive price cut for the 3DS, dropping it from US$250 to US$169 (AU$350 down to AU$250 in Australia) due to poor consumer uptake of the new console. This comes a mere four months after the release of the unit (April 2011) which has prompted a large number of websites to deem this to be a foreshadowing of the death of handheld gaming in this form. I disagree. Read more…

Firemint Drops First Gameplay Trailer of SPY mouse

Aussie developers Firemint announced their latest project back in March at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. At the time the new game was being shown off with the name Agent Squeek, however since then they have given it a new name and it’s nearly ready for launch. Read more…

 
Lucas
The Podfather/Convo Controller
Super salesman by day, Batdad and Gamersutra by night. As a self-confessed technology pacifist, he prefers to sit on the console-war fence and play games on his PC.
Matt
PlayStation Fanboy/Motormouth
Electrician by trade and yet also highly skilled at finding time to game around work and family commitments. A PlayStation fanboy with a platinum count and obvious podcast bias to prove it. Thinks DC is clearly superior to Marvel. Has been known to rant.
ABOUT DBG

Started in January 2011 by brothers Lucas and Matt, Drop Bear Gaming has been operating for over 7 years offering a fresh and relaxed perspective on the video game industry. The website is a passion project more than anything and it is our distinct pleasure to continue bringing entertainment to our listeners and viewers.

The guys release a podcast episode every two to three weeks and over the years they have welcomed guests from developers, publishers, and other gaming outlets onto the show.

Disclaimer: From time to time Drop Bear Gaming receives copies of games for review in either physical or digital format from publishers or their associated PR companies. All reviews are based on the merits of each game on their own. Whether or not we were supplied the copy is not taken into account when compiling our reviews.

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