Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

I don’t normally write about computer games or video games for that matter. I am not really much of a games player. I used to enjoy UltimaIV on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid, and networked games of Red Alert when I was at University, but since I came to Japan I haven’t played much apart from a bit of Pokemon on a cute little yellow game boy a friend of mine gave me. I am not into anime either unlike a lot of Westerners living in Japan.

However, a friend of mine from New Zealand has been working on a game called GripShift for the PS3. And they just released the game for testing by Sony so I thought I would give it a plug here. The graphics look pretty cool, cartoonish and fun. For me a good game is like a good book. When you play, if the game is good enough you “suspend your disbelief”, that is, you forget that you are involved in the act of reading or playing. Hopefully next year I will get a chance to see if this is true for GripShift. You can read bitshifter’s post on the release of GripShift or go directly to the GripShift site.

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