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 in: We quickly suspend disbelief and immerse ourselves in the worlds that game designers create for us. One of the first things we do is test the rules of the game to find out what results from our actions. Armed with this knowledge, we set out to master the game’s world.

But some game designers play with our expectations. Sometimes they deliberately trick us by sending fake-out signals. Sometimes they play on our assumptions about videogames, then show us that their game doesn’t work the same as the rest. Either way, we feel tricked — but to be surprised is to be entertained.