Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The pandemic has taken many things from the world — but mostly it’s stolen events. Every hang is a potential death sentence. Thankfully, Twitch, at least, has gone virtual: it announced today that its flagship conference, TwitchCon, will be happening online this year. Oh, and it’s not called TwitchCon. It’s now GlitchCon, and it’s happening on November 14th.
Because no fun was ever had by NOT going into an interdimensional portal.
Step inside with us.
GlitchCon – 11.14.20. pic.twitter.com/Sc3Su8jIpO
— Twitch (@Twitch) November 2, 2020
“Important announcement from Twitch,” the ad begins, “Numerous glitches have been observed on Twitch.” In this particular universe, those glitches were caused by — yes — “a portal to another dimension.”
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