Drop Bear Gaming

The DBG podcast is finally back after a solid 7 week break during which Lucas went away to France and Matt moved house. Unfortunately Susie couldn’t join us this week but Lucas and Matt still manage to have a chat about a few things. We start the show with a summary of what we’ve both […]

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. For more information about Extra Life 2011 […]

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 […]

Unfortunately we didn’t get to record an episode this week, so on this mini-ep there’s a short message from Matt followed by the interview Lucas did with Eso from the Aussie hip hop group Bliss N Eso since they did their sold out show in Brisbane on Friday which we went to. If you haven’t […]

Lucas and Matt are recording alone again this week as Susie recovers from sickness and finishes up all her moving to Melbourne. They cover a load of new including the announcement of Carmageddon: Reincarnation, some Xbox sales figures, the rumours of the NGP being called the “Vita” and much more including Nintendo’s child porn game! […]

Finally episode 15 is here! We discuss some news and have an interview with Aileen Bautista from Dinoroar about their new game Samurai Training, then Matt drops a monologue about L.A. Noire, and Susie has a chat about Lego Pirates of the Carribean. There were a few audio problems with this episode so if you […]

Unfortunately on this week’s episode SiouxsieKate couldn’t join us, so it’s just Matt and Lucas. On the upside we are releasing an episode quick enough that the content is actually relevant! Yayyy! We discuss the PSN Welcome Back program, the announcement of the brand new Australian gaming convention EB Games Expo, and the Gears of […]

On this episode we discuss the Black Ops Escalation map pack, the PSN being down (yes we know it’s back up now), and Firemint’s acquisition by EA. We have a great interview with Neil Rennison and Ben Britten from Tin Man Games (creators of the Gamebook Adventures series), followed by Matt’s thoughts on AFL Live […]

Episode 12 is a little bit late coming out so we apologise (blame Matt!). On this episode we discuss the PSN breach and outage, the Call of Duty Black Ops Escalation map pack, and our quickfire news. Lucas and SiouxsieKate then take over for the second half of the show as Matt goes back to […]

We have slightly changed up the format again this week on our road to perfection, so please feel free to email us at podcast@dropbeargaming.com or hit us up on Twitter (@DropBearGaming) to let us know what you think of it! On this episode we discuss Matt’s World Of Warcraft relapse, new DLC for Raskulls, Fruit […]

In episode 10 the Drop Bear crew bring a new format, a new guest interview and a brand new host. That’s right, a new member of the DBG family, SiouxsieKate drops a dollar in the co-op machine and comes along for the journey. The team discuss Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 as part of a […]

Here it is finally! The long-awaited 9th episode of Drop Bear Gaming! This episode covers a few things that are kind of old news (Mortal Kombat classification appeal refusal, Homefront, R18+ etc) but Matt also goes into detail about Dragon Age 2, we discuss some iPad games, and we announce the winner of our Gamebook […]

This week Matt and Lucas are joined by fellow Brisbane gamer SiouxsieKate to discuss Lucas’ new iPad, some of the last week’s news, popular iPad games that Lucas should buy, the new game from Brisbane developers 5th World, Hogtide. Some of the news we cover includes GDC announcements, Homefront, the iPad2, and our new “Quickfire […]

This week Matt and Lucas are joined by a ‘Very Special Guest’ the community manager at GamerTag Radio, Mr. David2Sly. David joins us to add his 2 cents to a few topics that were very hot items in Australia this last week; namely the banning of Mortal Kombat and the 18+ debacle. We start the […]

This week on the podcast we are joined by Tim Saitta from Game Taco. We discuss the top Xbox 360 Live games of 2010, the Aussie Game Dev head count, Dead Island trailer, Fruit Ninja selling over 6 million copies, and much more! Game Taco can be found at www.gametaco.net Tim Saitta can be found […]

On this week’s episode we are joined by Tom Killen, co-founder of The Voxel Agents. He comes along for the ride with Lucas and Matt to discuss some news including Firemint’s Real Racing 2 update, Australian 3DS price point announcement, DCUO charging more for subscriptions in Australia, and Halfbrick’s Raskulls soundtrack giveaway. We talk about […]

On this week’s episode Jammy can no longer do the podcast due to time restraints, so we invite Community Voice Podcast‘s PhilOsyfee to join us. We discuss the NGP and 3DS, the new Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC, then after the break we chat about IGDA Melbourne’s Global Game Jam, pre-order bonuses, […]

This week on the podcast we are back at it and things heat up between your hosts. Matt updates us on the recent PS3 hack, and Jammy discuss’ the PS3’s Call Of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer issues. We take a break with ‘Growing Up’ by the Aussie band ‘The Living End’. Lucas talks about the […]

Unfortunately this week following the flood disaster we could not find time to get together to record, due to clean ups, power outages, etc. Lucas has recorded a short message followed by a song. We will be back in full force next week. Thanks for understanding.

Note: This episode is a bit rough due to Lucas losing power at his home due to the flooding while halfway through editing it. His house was dry and safe, but the power was shut off for safety reasons due to half his suburb being inundated with water. Thanks for understanding. On this week’s episode […]