General / Off-Topic COBRA game engine temporal glitch?

[Theta Sigma]

I'll just leave these here...

'The Outsider' - Frontier Developments

Spoiler

Washington DC is under martial law and ex-CIA operative John Jameson is the most wanted man alive.
Framed for a crime he didn't commit, he finds himself fleeing from the might of the US Government.

September 16th, 2005
http://archive.is/nRQ9F

Reality

Spoiler

The US Capitol building has been placed on lockdown after police in Washington scrambled to deal with reports that shots had been fired at a visitor centre. One report said an officer had been shot and a gunman taken into custody.

March 28th, 2016
http://archive.is/SegQX

 

[Infidel Deity]

Why glitch?

 

[AveMe]

Just one word:
what?

 

[nosleepdemon]

I believe he is referring to another, canned Frontier game. That first picture appears to be a screenshot from it. The two look eerily similar.

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An interesting fact, somewhat related - when designing the skybox for the first level of Deus Ex, Ion Storm developers left out the twin towers from the New York skyline, completely by accident.