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Who knows what really happens when a video game starts to glitch? In Glitch Techs, two teens work at a game store as a front for their actual job: Hunting video game monsters who've broken out into the real world for a super secret task force, The Monster Hunters! Nickelodeon's animated adventure-comedy series follows two newly recruited kids as they battle video game monsters that come to life in the real world.
Produced by Nickelodeon, the series was originally greenlit for a 20-episode first season for its linear channels in May 2016 with plans to debut the series in 2018, however, Nickelodeon sold the rights to Netflix as part of Paramount's (then called Viacom) initiate to identify intellectual property within it vaults that could be an ideal fit for a digital or linear programmer outside of the company. The series then premiered as a Netflix Original (although still carrying the Nickelodeon branding), with Part One (the first 10 episodes of season one) being released on Friday, February 21, 2020, followed by Part Two (the latter 10 episodes of season one) on Monday, August 17, 2020. As part of the Netflix partnership, the streamer has bowed several Nickelodeon series and movies, including Pinky Malinky, Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, and Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus.
Following its initial pick-up by Nickelodeon, the series then got picked up for an additional 10 episodes. These 10 episodes were written, storyboarded and designed before Nickelodeon placed on the show on hiatus, so unfortunately never got animated and are sitting inside Nickelodeon’s server.
According to our friends over at WoNetflix, both Part One and Part Two of Glitch Techs are currently set to leave Netflix on Tuesday, August 17, 2027.
At the moment, this is a penciled in date for the show's removal, and Netflix could still renew the rights to the series, however, the streamer did the same with Pinky Malinky, another Nickelodeon-produced Netflix Original series last year, with the show removed from the service in July this year. The silver-lining was, however, that Nickelodeon International aired the series across its pan-regional feeds around the same time. It's currently unknown whether Nickelodeon will start to air Glitch Techs after its Netflix removal.
More About Glitch Techs:
Something Glitchy This Way Comes.. Nickelodeon's animated adventure-comedy series follows two newly recruited kids as they battle video game monsters that come to life in the real world.
This animated series features High Five and Miko, two gamers who are recruited into the world of Glitch Techs: kids who battle the video game glitches that enter our world through faulty game consoles!
In the world of Glitch Techs, Hinobi is a huge gaming and tech company that makes massively popular video games consoles. What Hinobi customers do NOT know is that their games sometimes glitch and release dangerous video game creatures into the real world! That’s when the company send the Glitch Techs: a trained support team equipped with an arsenal of fantastic gaming gear designed to capture video game pests and out them back where they belong!
Once a glitch is returned, the Techs must remove any evidence it was there – including the memories of any witnesses! Not only do Glitch Techs fight for the safety of the city, they also work at Hinobi stores, helping customers with tech support and service needs.
Enter Miko and high Five – new recruits who fight glitches and reformat witnesses all before the store closes at 5pm. Talk about a crazy job! Respect the Tech!
Glitch Techs comes from Eric Robles (Fanboy & Chum Chum, Stranger Things: Tales from '85) and Dan Milano (Greg the Bunny, Stranger Things: Tales from '85), both hailing from Nickelodeon's Artist Collective, an internal artist-led development program, and is produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif.
Glitch Techs boasts a diverse cast of characters, including Miko, who has ADHD, and Zahra Rashid, a Muslim-American female character who wears a hijab. At a industry panel, the co-creators explained that when they were developing Glitch Techs, they “recognized the need to incorporate characters reflective of the viewing audience, whether they are background characters or main characters,” and revealed that they had worked with MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) to “figure out how to accurately display an authenticity, even down to little behaviors.” Dan Milano further elaborated, “Even though we’re an animated show and they are trying to catch creatures, we want small things. We want to know that a stray hair came out of that hijab, and she had to tuck it behind her ear because that’s a human moment, that’s a practical moment, from everyday life.”
Glitch Techs stars Ricardo Hurtado as High Five, Monica Ray as Miko, Luke Youngblood as Mitch, Sandeep Parikh as Haneesh, Zehra Fazal as Zahra, Josh Sussman as Bergy, Eric Lopez as Papi, Dan Milano as BITT and Scott Kreamer as Phil, as well as Scott Kreamer, Betsy Sodaro, Ashly Burch, Greg Nix, Dee Baker, Stephanie Sheh, Jolene Kim, Felicia Day, Cree Summer, Roshon Fegan, Rachael Russakoff, Nolan North, Jane Lynch, Bryton James, and many more.
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Originally published: November 14, 2026.
Original source: Vailskibum.
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