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We've gotten used to giving game developers a certain amount of leeway when it comes to glitches and bugs. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Eatplaysleepmore wonders if we've taken this forgiveness too far. More »
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword excels at many things. It has great art direction, inspiring level design and so many other good qualities. More »
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We like Gears of War 3. We also like laughing at glitches. But when our intern Chris told me he found a Gears glitch that involved one of our Gears heroes falling through the world, I frowned. More »
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Last night before I hit the sack I set up a download of the Steam version of Techland's Dead Island. This morning I woke up to what many others discovered last night — this doesn't seem to be the right version of the game. More »
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We understand that many new video games ship with glitches. We (sometimes) forgive them. We also understand that some glitches are features or Easter eggs. We celebrate that, just as we celebrate this glitch from Duke Nukem Forever. More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5800024&view=rss&microfeed=true BioWare has released patch 1.02 for Dragon Age II, patching various bugs, quest glitches, and technical foul-ups and generally making the game a bit more tolerable on the Mac and PC. Check out the full patch notes here. More »
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Remember back when broken console games stayed broken? Commenter Don't forget to bring a towel! does, pining for the pre-update era in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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On the occassion of the silver anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo has put out this video celebrating the most famous glitches of the original, ones that first spread not by Internet or message boards, but grade school lunch tables. More »
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During the Final Fantasy XIV beta stress test, a tiny Lalafell named Legless Marathon fell through the world. It was the beginning of a grand adventure. More »
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This guy says he's found a wash-rinse-repeat way to rack up 20,000 credits in Halo: Reach inside of 10 minutes. I promise, I promise, I promise Naughty Bear is not going to jump out and say boo. More »
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A demo isn't the finished product. But Andrew Bynum hilariously stuck in the Jordan Wings pose at midcourt is not what NBA Elite 11 wants to see less than a day into its demo. NSFW language in the players' reactions. More »
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During the climactic battle with the Goblin in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Madam Web urges me to "look for areas of weakness." I'd say my archenemy falling through the world and becoming untouchable counts. More »
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Kane and Lynch take their war on masturbation to the streets. In their adventures they ran into a Chinese man with one thing on his mind. In his defense he just needed one more for the road. Just one more! More »
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We don't all play sports games, but can't we all enjoy the great glitches sports games bring us every year? In EA's NCAA Football 11, YouTube user TheBigCberry probably didn't want his team's mascot to be this helpful. More »
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Are you tired of no-good dirty griefers? Unable to recover from your drunken stupor? Do sliding doors attach themselves to your head? Rockstar has just released the Red Dead Redemption title update that will cure these horrific ailments and more. More »
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When your game is as massive as Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption, a few pesky bugs are bound to pop up, ones that turn horses invisible or spawn freakish half-breed beasts like the curious Donkey Lady or the helpful Gunslinger Dog. More »
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Infinite Yoshi jumps in Super Mario Galaxy 2? That ain't right. And it doesn't sound good, either. [Thanks, MASTERLINKX] More »
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Guns go invisible. Horses go invisible. Your own cowboy hero goes invisible. These are some of the invisibility bugs we're hearing about from numerous Red Dead Redemption players, primarily in the game's multiplayer mode. Update: Rockstar comments More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5542914&view=rss&microfeed=true I was enjoying playing Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands as I played it this weekend for review. That doesn't mean I wanted it to glitch near the end and force me to start over. Too bad for me. More »
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The more people play Mario Kart online with their friends, the less often they cheat — at least under their own name. That's the finding of an expert on the psychology of games and the group tracking online Mario Kart. More »
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Rayman doesn't have legs, and I bet he can skateboard. Miis don't have legs, and I bet they can too. This Skate 3 glitch confirms it: Legs are not needed for skateboarding. More »
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It is true that betas are allowed to have glitches. That doesn't make them any less entertaining to watch. And, hey, who can complain if Halo Reach still has bugs? What people are playing now is just a beta. More »
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It doesn't matter how many years Square-Enix spent making Final Fantasy XIII. They still wound up with glitches. Either that or they secretly programmed the character Hope to have the jumping ability of Super Mario and the indecision of Hamlet. More »
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Even a good game can glitch. This is the best one our new intern, Lauren Orsini, has found for Splinter Cell: Conviction on YouTube so far. The guy's just trying to shake tape off his hand. Too bad he's dead. More »
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Players across multiple regions are reporting technical issues with their copies of Heavy Rain, with word of out-of-sync audio, full-on freezes, and unloadable auto-saves filling the official forums, giving players an ironic taste of the depression the game explores. More »
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We all know how it works: Another year, another Madden. Like any game that has a yearly deadline, sometimes there might be a lack of polish. We've collected 10 videos of glitches from EA's newest outing (Beware: foul language). More »
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Rocket Jump" alt="Gatling Glitch > Rocket Jump" width="641" height="381" class="postimg center"/>Here's a trick for those rompin' and stompin' with zombies this Christmas: A physics glitch that enables you to charge up a gatling gun and launch yourself across the map in Left 4 Dead. More »
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Oh Eidos. It's just one thing after another, isn't it? More »
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There have been numerous tips of glitches coming to our inbox, and it's hard to keep track of what's been reported and what hasn't, and then how serious the stuff is. But Lionhead is aware of them, and is responding. And the notorious Monks Quest glitch is being pursued "as a matter of priority." According to someone speaking for the studio, on Lionhead's official forums: More »
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Lots of people on the Rock Band forums are complaining of a pretty heinous multiplayer glitch in Rock Band 2, which seems to only affect the 360 version. In a nutshell, it strikes bands with Live Enabled gamers as the primary account, and non-Live enabled as the secondary. The glitch wipes out your band in tour mode, and forces you to start over. Particularly aggravating is that it seems to wait until you're a ways into the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059030&view=rss&microfeed=true The parade of bloviation about the Fable II Pub Games exploit just will not die down. Of course, first Peter Molyneux said that cheaters would be "in for a surprise" if they tried to transfer their ill-gotten wealth to Fable II, once it releases. Then a couple sites spotted something curious in IGN's Fable II preview, in which Molyneux implied the glitch was actually a deliberate inclusion. Now Lionhead Studios has put out a patch, although someone (above) is claiming that drive maintenance will reactivate the exploit. More »
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Ah, football and August - fresh cut grass, training camp, two-a-days, puking, pre-season football, the release of Madden and, about 3 seconds after that, the reports of the first Madden glitches. Unlike last year's bugfest, it's been reasonably quiet so far. But paging through YouTube on Friday I found a plethora of classic, often hilarious Madden glitches, plus one of him perhaps subconsciously drawing a wiener on the telestrator in real life. We lead off with the Madden Ambulance Montage (love that title card) above. You can watch the health care professionals (oath: "First, do harm.") in John Madden Football '92 cut a path of destruction through the uninjured players on their way to pick up the crumpled halfback - with slo-mo replay, too. Many more clips after the jump. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5037819&view=rss&microfeed=true An ambitious title like BioShock is bound to have its fair share of glitches, but Big Daddy here doesn't care about that. He's just really happy to be appearing in the game and getting a chance to meet you. Possibly NSFW, especially if you work in a nautical museum. More »
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Shane over at Aeropause wasn't satisfied to leave his suggestions for improvements to the inevitable sequel to Gears of War in the Epic Games forums. He's bringing them out in the open for everyone to see! Shane has listed seven major issues that he would like to see fixed including better weapon balance, connection issues and those annoying ranked match quitters. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=233773&view=rss&microfeed=true This video illustrates an issue some Xbox 360 owners are experiencing when using their original Xbox 360 wireless controllers alongside the recently released wireless headset. Anyone out there in Kotakuland running into this problem? The official Xbox forums are rife with complaints about buggy behavior with the new accessory, but we're not sure how widespread this may be. Hopefully MS is working on a solution for those affected. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=220278&view=rss&microfeed=true We've all been in that situation in Halo 2 deathmatch, running around on a killing spree, feeling like jade shimmering gods, when all of a sudden sniper bullets will start raining down from the heavens. Who is that asshole countergravitationally skating across the sky box, killing everyone with impugnity? Jesus? Some no good hacker? And more importantly, how the heck do I get up there to pull the same low down trick? More »
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