What is a glitch?
A glitch is when a game's engine badly interprets a game event, this is usually caused by a dodgy piece of code on the game, but it can also be caused by the console not running 100% and reading things at the wrong time or not reading them at all.
What are the consequences of a glitch?
Although glitches may appear humorous they can have fatal consequences...
Final Fantasy XIII for PS3's publisher Sony have been sued because of a glitch (or bug) which freezes your PS3 console and shuts it down and stop working.
Don't worry about anything like that happening to you though as there's a very low chance you'll get a glitch like that before you read about it on the internet as glitch news travels fast.
General glitches have no effect on your console or game disk, the worst you will encounter is lost/corrupt save-data and a 1 off console shut down, but it's easy to back up most consoles now-a-days.
What should I do if I find a glitch (harmful or not)?
The first thing you should do is try and contact the game developers via email, phone, website etc. after, if it's not already known off, post it on a games forum or news site such as N4G.com and you're bound to get some helpful advice.
Where can I learn about harmful game glitches?
Most news sites such as N4G.com regularly have news about glitches, they also offer an RSS feed to keep up to date with N4G.com hot topics. Google.com and Google News are the best place to find out if there's glitches on your newly bough game. But don't worry as games are checked and updated constantly.
Hopefully this information will make you more aware of the consequences of glitches, harmful glitches, and how to find out if your game has harmful glitches.
Written by Adam Smith, Games Lowdown Admin - Games Lowdown is you one stop site for all things game glitches.
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