Archive for month: March, 2010

Waking up outside the level

March 22, 2010 | by SPJglitches

DfeatMe on YouTube just uploaded a glitch video for the recently released Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening expansion, finding a way outside of The Blackmarsh and to some cool places outside of the normal play area. Watch and enjoy!

Kratos goes swimming

March 22, 2010 | by SPJglitches

It seems like Kratos enjoys a bit more than just killing gods and slaughtering innocent civilians… he’s a swimmer too!
YouTube user AKheon found a neat glitch in The Caverns of God of War III (one that appears in other forms in the previous God of War games) that involves clipping through a wall, falling through [...]

Improving games with bugs?

March 21, 2010 | by SPJglitches

Continuing today’s theme of glitches allowing for better gaming, Cameron Pershall at Bitmob wrote a piece called “Learning to Love Bugs” a few days ago about how certain bugs improve one’s enjoyment of a game. From the article:
These are just a few of the glitches I’ve encountered in Fallout 3: dead ghouls randomly falling [...]

Glitching the way to better horror

March 21, 2010 | by SPJglitches

SWE3tMadness at Destructoid wrote a really interesting piece about horror video games, and how the intentional presence of glitches in video games could elevate the genre. Very cool stuff! Check out the article and the excerpt below:
What I want to see is a game where that comfort zone is forcibly taken away, [...]

Escaping from jail… glitching-style

March 19, 2010 | by SPJglitches

French glitcher Spikeee1337 has a cool glitch video for us from the PC version of Prison Break: The Conspiracy, showing how to get outside of the prison in the first chapter of the game by wiggling into a gap between a sink and a bunk bed.
Weird stuff, huh? Check it out:

A link to faster speeds

March 19, 2010 | by SPJglitches

Breakdown at Speed Demos Archive updated the site today with a speedrun of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link done by Kristian ‘Arctic_Eagle’ Emanuelson, which he describes as a “deathless run of the game with no Up+A warping.” You can find the video links for the run itself here.
There’s also a new record [...]

Propane launching… just ’cause

March 18, 2010 | by SPJglitches

BigBSt4TZ uploaded a fun and funny glitch video to his YouTube account showing a launching technique in Just Cause 2 involving grapple hooks, propane tanks, and a little bit of madness. Watch below:

Three times the glitching conviction

March 18, 2010 | by SPJglitches

With the recent release of the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo, it was only a matter of time before glitchers would find a way out of the demo level — and three different already people did!
YouTube users isbilen10, TI2ophy, and TeamLAG uploaded new glitch videos showing how to get outside of the demo area and/or beneath [...]

Can’t… stop… dancing!

March 17, 2010 | by SPJglitches

TI2ophy just uploaded a glitch video for the recently released Final Fantasy XIII that shows a pretty hilarious animation glitch. Check out the YouTube page for his tutorial or watch the jackhammer-like dancing below.

4 x Metro 2033 = ???

March 15, 2010 | by SPJglitches

Over on the xJediPiMPx/chaoticPERFECTION YouTube account, nickncs cP uploaded a grand total of four new glitch videos for the brand new Metro 2033. It’s too bad the game is somewhat drab looking, because the areas he explores are truly enormous.
You can start out with his exploration of the prologue level, and then hit the jump [...]