Glitch will live on in the public domain.
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Social game Glitch is dead, but it will live on in the public domain

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Tiny Speck launched its wonderfully creative Glitch social online game in 2010, but it didn’t get enough users and shut down in 2012. Now the startup has decided to relinquish its ownership of the game assets and is releasing it into the public domain.

Anyone can use it for any purpose.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.