Glitched into empty space: why video games are obsessed with the Backrooms

The horror movie sensation of 2026 has its roots in gaming’s discovery of ‘noclip’ – and the hidden virtual realms that could be opened up inside games. Developers explain how everyone got lost in these liminal spaces It starts on 4chan, in a May 2019 thread entitled “unsettling…

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