Archive for month: March, 2010

When games glitch YOU

March 31, 2010 | by SPJglitches

Chris Kohler at Wired’s Game|Life blog wrote up a great piece about the greatest tricks that games have ever played on unsuspecting players like ourselves. OK, so it’s only tangentially related to glitching, but I thought you guys might want to take a look anyway. From the article:
Videogames have a unique ability to suck us [...]

A stimulus pack of four new glitch videos

March 30, 2010 | by SPJglitches

The new Stimulus Pack maps just came out for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, so naturally the glitches are starting to roll in. I wasn’t super impressed by any of these, but I figure they’re mentioning for those who are just getting into the new maps now.
Here’s a collection of four new discoveries, three [...]

Taking the chain to Glitchville

March 29, 2010 | by SPJglitches

And the torrential downpour of God of War III glitches continues. You know, I’d totally stop writing about these… but they keep being so cool and different every time! And sorry about the poor attempt at a pun!
Anyway, findlestick is back with another great glitch that involves both grappling and the “jet dash” glitch mentioned [...]

Pause your way out of prison

March 29, 2010 | by Complex

Esteemed glitcher TI2ophy has posted an amazing barrier breaker on his YouTube channel for the game Prison Break: The Conspiracy. In the video he uses one of his specialty pause glitches to find a way to break through any barrier in the game.
Check out the video below:

SPJ — I’m glad you mentioned “specialty” pause glitches, [...]

Glitchers in good company

March 27, 2010 | by SPJglitches

xERx DarkFallen of clan Eternal Revolution put up a video on the Senseney07 YouTube account showing some exploration of “Zero Dark Thirty,” except in a different spot than emerio’s discovery. Watch below:

Kratos is so mad, he learned to fly!

March 27, 2010 | by SPJglitches

findlestick on YouTube made a fantastic video and text tutorial for performing the “jet dash” glitch in God of War III that allows Kratos to fly great distances. I recommend going to YouTube so you can see the annotations, but you can also check out the video below:

Chaotically speedy speedrunning

March 25, 2010 | by SPJglitches

I’ve recently been playing the Xbox version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory as part of Rebel FM’s Game Club, and decided to see if anyone had tried to speedrun the game. The answer? Yep, and pretty damn incredibly too.
Mathew Thompson at Speed Demos Archive ran through the game on Expert difficulty in a staggeringly quick [...]

Turning gears skyward

March 25, 2010 | by SPJglitches

EmericaxDGx found a new glitch on Jacinto in Gears of War 2 that appears on the JAMIExELITE / Darkness Glitchers YouTube account. With this insanely weird and complicated “SkyWalker” glitch you are able to walk atop an invisible ceiling. Check out the video:

Visionary glitching of Necrovision

March 23, 2010 | by Complex

If it wasn’t for SPJ I wouldn’t have found this guy!
French glitcher Spikeee1337 shows us glitches in a game called Necrovision, including launches and exploration outside of maps. This guy is not very well known but he is very talented. While you’re stopping off at his channel check out his other videos and subscribe!

A trifecta of patches, here or on the way [update]

March 23, 2010 | by SPJglitches

The fine folks at Destructoid have written about three new patches for popular games that are either here already or coming very soon.
A patch for Heavy Rain is coming soon that will fix the freezing issues people were having, among other things. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Aliens Vs Predator will also [...]