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‘I Give You Good Price’ – Halfbrick

Halfbrick have released an update for the marvellous iPad version of its extremely popular IP ‘Fruit Ninja’, it also comes with a discount for a limited time.

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Are You Ready for Some Samurai Training?

Sydney development studio Dinoroar Interactive released it newest iOS game today on the app store, titled ‘Samurai Training’. The game sees you work through multiple training levels acquiring skills and lastly going toe-to-toe with the master to prove your skill are worthy.

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Game Book Adventure Six Hits the App Store Today

Tin Man Games have released their sixth book in the Game Book Adventures series “The Wizard from Tarnath Tor”, and to celebrate the Tin Man team are offering a special on all the books for a limited time.

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EB Expo – Gold Coast 2011

So EB Games have just made their announcement which Lucas posted about yesterday and one of his predictions was right. Read more…

EB Games Is Playing With Us

EB Games is playing games with people with it’s latest email and gimmick. If you are a subscriber to their emails you would have received one today with a notice that they are releasing some news tomorrow Live on the site. Its the EB Games ‘What, Where, When’ announcement.  Read more…

EA Buy Firemint

Today iOS heavy weight Firemint was bought by gaming heavy weight champion EA. In a press statement released on the Firemint website, the Firemint CEO Rob Murray stated “I just wanted to drop everyone a quick note about the planned acquisition of Firemint by EA. This is a pretty exciting move for us and for EA”.

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Train Conductor Updated and offered as Free Easter Treat

Our good friends over at The Voxel Agents have been hard at work, updating the Train Conductor series to HD. Not only does this now class both the Australian and United States versions of the games as universal for the iOS, it also means you only need to purchase once and the game is available on any of the your iOS devises, ie. iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
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AFL Live Breaks Street Date

Retail Store Game confirmed less than 2 hours ago the AFL Live had broken street date and was looking for confirmation from distribution company Tru Blu to start shelfing the title.  Many Western Australian stores started selling the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions over the weekend and once Game found out tweeted “AFL LIVE! CONFIRMED! If our stores have stock – they are able to sell you AFL Live on PS3 or Xbox360.” Read more…

Supanova 2011

The Supanova pop culture expo is rolling into Brisbane this weekend bringing all the anime, sci-fi, comics and more that you could want. With a plethora of special celebrity guests, tournaments, booths, and other great things to see and do, it is definitely worth checking out. Read more…

Happy Birthday FTG

Our friends over at fronttowardsgamer are celebrating their first birthday this week. With so many gaming websites on the net, a site that makes it to one year and is going strong is a great achievement. Head over to the FTG site and get involved. Read more…

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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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