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Words with Facebook Friends

One of our favourite iOS games is being ported to Facebook, Words with Friends.

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Sid Meier’s Pirates! for iPad

2K Games and Firaxis Games, the creative minds behind the Civilization series have just ported another of their classic games to the iPad. “Sid Meier’s Pirates! for iPad” is a simulation game where you sail the seas of the Caribbean in the 1600’s as a pirate (surprised?) on a quest for gold and wenches… well there may not be wenches but there is gold aplenty me hearties. Read more…

An R18+ Resolution Is Here!

There has finally been a resolution to the R18+ classification issue today and the federal government have said that they will be introducing the new classification before the end of the year. Read more…

Apple Cut App Prices In Aus by Up To 25%

There has been a great bit of news today with the announcement that Apple are lowering prices in the Australian App Store to bring it in line with the US. Read more…

Episode 18 – Crunchy Deuce
Duration: 00:34:30 • Size: 15.8 MB

This week on the Drop Bear Gaming podcast Lucas is away, and will continue to be away for the next 2 episodes, so Matt and Susie are holding the fort. Matt hosts this week with discussions about Transformers, Team Bondi’s development crunch time news, Extra Life and more. Read more…

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Lets Play Portal 2 (Part 2)

Lets see how our Video Editor is going with his second entry of Portal 2. Watch as the man with the strange accent attempts to kick some Blue and Orange circle butt.

 

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Extra Life 2011

Last year it was my pleasure to take part in Sarcastic Gamer’s Extra Life 24-hour gaming marathon charity effort. Extra Life calls on gamers to dedicate a straight 24 hours to gaming, to raise money for children’s cancer hospitals all over the world. This year Drop Bear Gaming will have a team taking part and we would love for you to join us and help raise money for a local hospital. Read more…

Sony to start production of the PS4 in late 2011

 

Online News site DigiTimes posted an article late Monday claiming to have inside confirmation that Sony are to begin production of the PlayStation 4 as early as 2011.

 

 

 

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Episode 17 – Hack Me Some Nachos
Duration: 01:02:02 • Size: 28.41 MB

Episode 17 is here and this time Matt is away but Susie is back and she has brought along the honorary drop bear Game Taco’s own Wall aka Tim Saitta. They discuss hackers, EA buying PopCap, the 2011 FreePlay Awards, the opening of the Melbourne Mana Bar, a bit of a chat about Dead Island and the R18+ rating discussion, and much more. Have a listen and have a laugh and let us know what you think of the show with an email or an iTunes review.

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Lets Play Portal 2 (Part 1)

Our video editor has pieced together a group of walk through Vids for your entertainment pleasure. Check out part one here.

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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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