The idea that eventually became GlitchBlog.com was originally meant to be a successor to the now-defunct TrickGaming.org. TrickGaming was a small community of trickers and glitchers that met through a site created by Ducain, the founder of High Impact Halo, called TrickGamer.org. When TrickGamer was shut down unexpectedly, the community created TrickGaming to continue on the legacy left by the previous site. This site went through numerous iterations, and was eventually shut down as well.

In July 2007, after TrickGaming had been shut down for many months, SPJglitches and SQUIDMACK, former members of both TrickGamer and TrickGaming, began exchanging messages on YouTube regarding the possibility of a new glitch site. Rather than rely solely on a forum as the previous sites had, they decided that it would be best to make the site a blog, ran in a similar manner as sites such as Joystiq and Destructoid.

Work began on this new site, and around the middle of September 2007 the site was (mostly) complete. Posting began on September 20th, but the site didn’t officially open until a few days later on September 24th, just in time for the release of Halo 3.

After a few changes were made to the original design of the site, November 18th saw the release of a completely new layout for the site, and the rebirth of The Tricktionary, a dictionary created for the purpose of defining trick and glitch related terminology.

On January 9th, 2008, a new feature was added to the left sidebar called the “Weekly Glitch Video.” This was created to allow the addition of a featured YouTube glitch video, updated every Saturday.

In late February 2008 we introduced ads to the site to help recoup some of the costs associated with running the site. This is an image of the updated look of the site, captured on February 26, 2008:

In early March of 2008, GlitchBlog created an “Affiliates” section, and became the affiliate of game trading website Goozex.com and glitch website GlitchSPOT.net.

On April 1st, 2008, the site’s security was compromised by someone with a strange obsession for cats. By the end of the day the changes to the home page were fixed, and all was well. You can look at a preserved copy of that deviously altered home page here.

After a long period of sporadic updates and relative inactivity, SPJ decided to try and reinvigorate the site with a new front page and posting style. On February 19, 2010 the new theme went live.