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	<description>a game developer in Wellington, New Zealand.</description>
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		<title>Sidhe presents Shatter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Wellington based Sidhe releases their second original game &#8211; Shatter for PlayStation 3, on the PlayStation Network.
Shatter is a fresh take on the retro brick breaking genre made popular in the 70&#8217;s &#38; 80&#8217;s by Breakout and Arkanoid. Shatter features innovative controls, physics effects, power-ups, special attacks, and boss battles.

There&#8217;s already been some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=87&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/sidhe-releases-shatter/</link>
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		<title>NZ Guilt upon accusation laws come into effect on Feb 28</title>
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Update: The government has stalled the law and is now considering throwing it out!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&#38;objectid=10558313
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		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/nz-guilt-upon-accusation-laws-come-into-effect-on-feb-28/</link>
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		<title>World of Goo for Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The award winning indie game &#8220;World of Goo&#8221; has been released for Linux!
On way of describing the game is Jenga with sticky balls of goo. Engineer structures by connecting the goo to get from one side of the level to the other.
Not many commercial games get a Linux release, hopefully if World of Goo and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=80&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/world-of-goo-for-linux/</link>
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		<title>*shakes fist* at Australian game censorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand has been caught in the crossfire by Australia&#8217;s draconian game classification laws. New Zealand gamers normally have a laugh at Australia&#8217;s expense due to their lack of an R18 rating for games, but not this time.
It would appear that in the opinion of Australian politicians, gamers are all children. There is no need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=71&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/shakes-fist-at-australian-game-censorship/</link>
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		<title>Alternative transport</title>
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A great visual example of the difference between taking the car and alternative forms of transport.
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		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/alternative-transport/</link>
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		<title>Switched to Linux (again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I last ran Linux as my primary operating system about four years ago. I switched back to Windows as I was doing a lot of Windows coding for my studies at Media Design School. After getting fed up with various problems I was having with Windows XP I recently decided to switch back to Linux [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=68&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/switched-to-linux-again/</link>
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		<title>Slashdot runs serious story on April fools day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ha ha April Fools! As if /. would run anything but non-stop shit April fools jokes the whole day. Okay so it&#8217;s a slight exaggeration but I swear the jokes get worse every year&#8230;
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		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/slashdot-runs-serious-story-on-april-fools-day/</link>
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		<title>GripShift online leaderboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been working on online high score tables for our PS3 game GripShift. We&#8217;ve now made these live on the official GripShift website. Building our own leaderboard site means we&#8217;ve been able to provide GripShift players with information that is not available in game, like overall player rank. So know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=66&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/gripshift-leaderboards/</link>
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		<title>eek!</title>
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		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/eek/</link>
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		<title>Wii News Channel Launches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just updated my Wii to access the newly launched Wii News Channel. The top headline for New Zealand today: &#8220;New Zealand declares National Lamb Day&#8221;.
The country is finally coming out of the closet to declaring their Lamb Love with a national day.
Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton stated, &#8220;New Zealanders had no reason to be embarrassed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitshifter.wordpress.com&blog=143546&post=64&subd=bitshifter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitshifter.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/wii-news-channel-launches/</link>
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