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

SPJglitches — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:00:57 +0000

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 be updated soon; this patch will primarily be to make “weapon tweaks and [provide] faster matchmaking.” Finally, the PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has just received a patch that fixes a whole array of minor issues in the game.

It’s nice to see these games are getting fixed up!

Update 3/23: It appears the PC version of Aliens Vs Predator has also received a new patch.

Glitching the way to better horror

SPJglitches — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:10:08 +0000

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, where the horror elements aren’t just one-shot jump scares that are quickly forgotten. I want to see a character react as the game world around them slowly becomes more and more degraded due to some unknown force. I want the player to be able to question whether they’re really playing a game, or actually having some influence on an unknown universe separated from our own.

Evil bugs have risen in Risen

SPJglitches — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:09:19 +0000

Yeah, that’s the best I could come up with. Brad Nicholson at Destructoid reports that a game-ending bug in the Xbox 360 port of Risen has reared its ugly head in the third chapter of the game. What’s even worse is that this bug had been reported back in 2009 when the game was out for PC. You’d think the developers would try and fix something like that… right? From the article:

In the third chapter in the game, your no-longer-shoeless adventurer will have to face the dangers of the Volcano Keep in order to do the whole “save the world” thing. In the process, though, you may hit a glitch so bad that you’ll have to restart the game. Take our advice: when prompted by the voodoo man, it’s best to go right instead of left first. Going left first means two quest items (busts) won’t spawn and thus you can’t complete the next two chapters.