MITH's Digital Dialogues

Videogames, Glitches, and the Narrative of Malfunction


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The word “glitch,” meaning a small voltage variance that can short out a circuit, entered the English language through radio hobbyists and was popularized by astronauts, for whom a glitch could mean the difference between life and death. But while the word “glitch” is often still used to connote catastrophic failure, videogamers have come to [...]

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