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FEZ Turns Heads on PS4, PS3, Vita March 25th

Sony has announced that Fez will be available on PS4, PS3 and PS Vita from March 25 in North America and March 26 in Europe.

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Posted by PlayStation Blog Mar 03 2014 15:00 GMT

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This is it. We’ve come to the end of development, and Fez is finally coming to PlayStation on March 25th! It’s been an incredible adventure, and we couldn’t have made it without the amazing work of Blit Software and the support of Sony’s team. In the name of all of us at Polytron, thank you so much!

People have been asking for a PS3 version of Fez since day one, and we believe it was worth the wait. Blit took the time to make a solid C++ port of the game, which runs smoothly at native resolution on PS Vita, and 720p at 60 frames per second on PS3.

The PS4 version is what we consider to be the best-looking and smoothest Fez experience you can get on a TV set, running at beautiful 1080p (and yes, 60fps too). You wouldn’t think that upping the resolution would make a big difference in a game like ours, where the pixels are the size of Gomez’s fist… but it really does look even crisper and blockier — in a good way.

No one’s going to blame you for digging around, but you won’t find many big changes in these versions of the game. However, there are a few surprises… especially in the PS4 version: DualShock 4’s lightbar has been put to the task of bringing a little bit of Fez’s world into your own home, and you may not need to search for that dusty pair of red/cyan glasses to experience a very late-game easter egg… Funny story: to test the new 3DTV support, we spent a weekend running around computer shops to find a monitor that sports an integrated emitter. When we found one and started up Fez, our minds were forever expanded. I think we can see the fourth dimension now?

So the PS4 version is loaded with sexy features, but definitely don’t hold off from getting a dose of Fez on the go, especially with a cross-save slot shared across all three platforms! I sometimes idle the game in a puzzle room, transforming my PS Vita into an infinite Disasterpeace music generator. We’re excited to see what other ways people will find to enjoy the first portable version of Fez.

Let’s all enjoy the universe of Fez one more time (or for the first time) on PlayStation!

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8 Minutes of FEZ on PS4

Posted by IGN Feb 12 2014 00:57 GMT

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Fez has sold one million copies, across all platforms, developing studio Polytron Digital said today

Experience 8 minutes of the puzzle platform 3d world of PS4's indie gem FEZ.

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Posted by Kotaku Dec 09 2013 19:30 GMT

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Fez Set to Melt Minds on PS4, PS Vita, PS3

Fez has sold one million copies, across all platforms, developing studio Polytron Digital said today in a thank-you message to everyone who bought, stole, or said they were boycotting it.Read more...

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Posted by PlayStation Blog Aug 20 2013 19:10 GMT

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Hi there! My name is Marie-Christine Bourdua, producer at Polytron, and I’m here today to announce that Fez is coming soon to PS Vita, PS3 and PS4. Making Fez happen has been such an incredible journey, and we are truly thrilled to see our game come to PlayStation platforms.

Fez development started six and a half years ago with Phil Fish’s ideas and Renaud Bédard’s programming skills. The Montréal-based studio was (and still is) very small, but very ambitious.

Only 100 days into development, we submitted a Fez prototype to the 2008 Independent Games Festival, and were awarded the Visual Arts award, which was a huge public awareness and morale boost. But we still had a whole game to make!

We failed to meet a million deadlines and had to overcome financial obstacles, but met amazing collaborators along the way, like the game’s composer, Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace), and outstanding pixel artist Paul Robertson.

The game was taking shape, had a unique atmosphere and aura of mystery that we knew would find fans. As we were wrapping up development, James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot (makers of the Sundance-nominated documentary Indie Game: The Movie) followed us through the joys and hardships of shipping a first game, and to another IGF ceremony four years later where we were awarded the Seamus McNally Grand Prize; and the game wasn’t even out yet!

Since the initial release in April 2012, we’ve been working on several versions of the game. We felt like Fez deserved to be on every platform that can run it, and PS Vita and PS3 are a natural fit. Fez lends itself perfectly to a “pick up and play” bite-sized mobile game experience on your way to work in the morning.

Development for these platforms is handled by Blit Software, a studio from Barcelona who is pretty much doing magic with the game. You may remember them as the guys who are making the Spelunky PS3 and PS Vita versions happen too, which we’re also much looking forward to! We’re working with them to provide a smooth, pixel-perfect version of Fez, with every bit of content to explore that the game is known for.

For those who may not know, Fez is a 2D platformer set in a 3D world. You play as Gomez, a charismatic and fluffy little white guy who wears a Fez. When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that takes him to the very end of time and space.

There are no enemies in Fez. No bosses, no combat; in fact, no conflict of any kind. It aims to create a non-threatening world rich with ambiance, a pleasant place to spend time in. And of course, with plenty of treasures to find and secrets to uncover.

If you’re going to Gamescom in Cologne this week, come to the PlayStation booth in Hall 7 and try out a work-in-progress version of Fez on PS Vita.

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Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II

Posted by Kotaku Jul 27 2013 19:17 GMT

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Gears of War Creator: ‘Come Back, Phil’

Polytron, the studio behind the indie hit Fez, announced over its official Twitter that development on Fez II has been canceled. It appears to be related to a very heated Twitter argument between Polytron founder Phil Fish and an Internet personality who sharply criticized him today.Read more...

>Critics say mean things about Phil Fish (As they usually do about everyone)
>Phil Fish throws a fit and gives up

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I watched like seven minutes of indie game the movie and stopped because phil fish acted like a child the entire time.

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Posted by Kotaku Jul 29 2013 22:30 GMT

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A Locker-Room Talk Might Have Spared Us From Yesterday's Fez Fiasco

At least one prominent game developer doesn't want to see Fez creator Phil Fish go.Read more...

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Posted by Kotaku Jul 28 2013 20:30 GMT

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One Year Later, Fez Will Be Patched

The things I said were out of line and the mouth that said them would soon be out of alignment, too. That's the polite version of a one-way conversation about 20 years ago in a far off arena, when the difference between criticism and a harangue was expressed to me in very physical terms.Read more...

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can I get that tattooed on my back

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Posted by Kotaku Jul 06 2013 15:00 GMT

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Fez getting all patched up on XBLA

Fez will be patched, fixing a potential game-breaking bug, now that Microsoft is no longer charging studios for title updates. Fez creator Phil Fish tweeted the news on July 4, saying the patch would take "a couple of months." Last year, Fez was updated once on Xbox Live to fix some glitches; it was a free update per Microsoft's policy at the time but the patch was removed when it created more problems. Another potentially fatal bug was spotted, but because it affected so few users, and because it would have cost "tens of thousands of dollars" to roll out a second title update, Fish said they'd be leaving the game as-is. Last week, Microsoft confirmed that it stopped charging for title updates back in April, which came as a surprise to some, Fish included. He told Fez fans he'd inquire if the new policy also applied to his game, and apparently it does. To contact the author of this post, write to owen@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @owengood.

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Posted by Joystiq Jul 05 2013 01:15 GMT

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Fez will get a new patch on Xbox Live Arcade, Polytron founder and Fez creator Phil Fish says in a tweet.

Fez has been in need of an update on XBLA since June 2012 - Polytron actually released a patch that month that fixed a number of issues in the game, including infinite death loops, but that update caused some save files to read as corrupted. Polytron later re-released the patch without fixing the issue that caused corrupted save files, citing costs from Microsoft running into "tens of thousands of dollars" to issue that first patch.

Fish says the fresh update will take "a few months," but it's on its way. The problems with the first patch affect less than 1 percent of players, Polytron says, but it's a risk that most people would probably rather not take. Fez 2 is in development, but it's not coming to Xbox One or 360, Fish says.

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Xbox Live Stops Charging Studios to Patch Games; Fez Creator Upset

Posted by Kotaku Jun 29 2013 15:00 GMT

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When a rare—but utterly game-breaking bug—crippled the indie sensation Fez, its maker said it would issue no patch to fix it. That's because Microsoft would have charged "tens of thousands of dollars" to put out the patch out over Xbox Live. Yesterday, the company revealed it did away with those charges back in April. Eurogamer first reported the news that developers are no longer being charged for title updates on the Xbox 360, which Microsoft later confirmed over Twitter. If so, that's news to Phil Fish, the head of Fez studio Polytron, whose relationship with Microsoft soured greatly following last year's patch controversy. Nearly a year ago, Fez published a title update to fix glitches that had popped up in the original release. Developers were given one free patch update over Xbox Live. After that, Microsoft charged for patches. Problem is, this patch broke Fez even worse. Microsoft removed the patch from Xbox Live. When another fatal bug was discovered, Fish made the decision not to patch it because of what Microsoft would charge ("tens of thousands of dollars," Fish said in a statement) and the fact it affected, according to Polytron, less than one percent of all users. On consoles Fez is available only on the Xbox 360; a PC version came out about a year after it first released. Polytron's relationship with Microsoft disintegrated after the patch matter. Over Twitter, he profanely denounced a lack of support his game got as a console exclusive, echoing other indie studio complaints (particularly from those who made Super Meat Boy.) Fez 2 is confirmed to be in development; asked on which platform, Fish said, "not Xbox." So when he learned yesterday that Microsoft had rolled back its charges for title update, Fish said "You forgot to tell people." "I've been hearing this rumor for months. Microsoft never told us anything about it," he added, via Twitter. He then said he would ask if the new policy was retroactive, meaning Fez could finally get its patch. "Something tells me it won't be retroactive," he said. Microsoft no longer charges developers to patch their Xbox 360 games [Eurogamer]

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Fez 2 Won't be Coming to Xbox One or Xbox 360

Posted by IGN Jun 22 2013 00:30 GMT

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Announced By The Grace Of Fish: Fez II

While we don't know what platforms the recently announced Fez 2 will eventually be released on, developer Phil Fish has announced he won't be bringing it to Xbox One or Xbox 360.

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 14 2013 08:00 GMT

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The remixed Fez soundtrack is now out.

First there was Fez, and now there is two of it. That was the scene yesterday at Horizon Indie Game Conference yesterday, and later confirmed via content-free teaser trailer. You can try rotating this post through four dimensions to find out more about the new game, but the truth is that this is all we know. Sorry.

The original Fez is out on PC now.

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Fez 2 Is In Development

Posted by Kotaku Jun 13 2013 17:59 GMT

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Venus Patrol's alterna-E3 showcase, a sequel to Phil Fish's successful dimensional puzzler Fez was announced.

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Now Available - FEZ

Posted by Valve May 01 2013 16:35 GMT

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FEZ is Now Available on Steam!

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives. Explore a serene and beautiful open-ended world full of secrets, puzzles and hidden treasures. Unearth the mysteries of the past and discover the truth about reality and perception. Change your perspective and look at the world in a different way.

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Posted by Kotaku Apr 22 2013 02:30 GMT

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The remixed Fez soundtrack is now out. Get it here. At $5, you'd be crazy not to, especially since it features tracks by the composers behind games like Minecraft, Mirror's Edge and...Fez. &lt;a href="http://disasterpeace.com/track/puzzle-2...; data-mce-href="http://disasterpeace.com/track/puzzle-2... by Solar Fields&lt;/a&gt;

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Check out the first track from from FZ: Side F, the Fez remix album from the game's composer, Disast

Posted by Kotaku Apr 16 2013 20:30 GMT

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Check out the first track from from FZ: Side F, the Fez remix album from the game's composer, Disasterpiece. &lt;a href="http://disasterpeace.com/album/fz-side-...; data-mce-href="http://disasterpeace.com/album/fz-side-...: Side F by Various Artists&lt;/a&gt; The album will be out on April 20, and you can pre-order through Bandcamp. The actual soundtrack is pretty good times, too.

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Fez sold 200,000 copies on XBLA to date

Posted by Joystiq Apr 13 2013 21:30 GMT

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Right Back Hat Ya: Fez Coming To Steam

Fez, Polytron Corporation's cute platforming game that made it into Joystiq's Top Ten of 2012 list, has sold over 200,000 copies on XBLA to date. The game crossed the 100,000 copies mark in late May 2012.

The figures come from creator Phil Fish, who took to Polytron's blog today to discuss the one year anniversary of Fez's release. Fish recently noted during a Reddit AMA that the game "should eventually be out on pretty much everything." Fez will arrive on PC on May 1.

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Mar 19 2013 09:00 GMT

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“It’s a console game on a console. End of story,” Phil Fish somewhat famously told NowGamer of Fez’s PC prospects. But that was many embittered eons ago, and now gaming’s most divisive documentary star is singing a different tune. Confirming yet another one of those increasingly prophetic Steam listings, the previously hardware-bound, headwear-powered dimension-shifter is finally scrambling onto PC. But when? And how? As with all the important things in life, you will have to cleverly rearrange key building blocks of time and space to find out.

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Joystiq Top 10 of 2012: Fez

Posted by Joystiq Jan 03 2013 14:00 GMT

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Years of hype, several delays, a self-destructively outspoken developer, framerate stutters, game-breaking crashes, and now post-patch blues. While I don't agree, I can certainly understand why some have little time for Fez even before getting into the game underneath all the mess. That's a shame, because the game is an absolute peach.

The Fez I played back in April, which crashed nine times in all and stuttered on numerous occasions, was worth the tribulations and then some. I raced through it across the release weekend, throwing myself at the challenge of finding all the cubes hidden within the cryptographic platformer, and doing so without any outside help whatsoever (OK, maybe a little). It should have been a maddening exercise of frustration and ire, but instead I had an airy grin plastered across my features throughout.

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Fez coming to other platforms in 2013

Posted by Joystiq Dec 31 2012 19:00 GMT

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Casey Lynch's Top 10 Games of 2012

In a sweet "State of the Polytron" post, Fez designer and sole Polytron employee Phil Fish revealed plans to port his cryptographic adventure game to platforms beyond XBLA in 2013, potentially platforms with friendlier policies toward updates.

"Yes, i've heard you, dozens of people emailing me everyday telling me how much of an idiot i am for not porting FEZ to everything," noted Fish. He also teased future developments relating to Disasterpeace's soundtrack for the game (which you can buy here) and "something about a US branch" of Polytron.

Fish also reaffirmed plans for two more games, and expressed interest in designing non-game projects. "I want to design everything," he said. "Maybe not a videogame? Maybe something else entirely. I JUST DON'T KNOW."

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Posted by Giant Bomb Dec 29 2012 19:00 GMT

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Fez going half-off on XBLA for one day only

Casey Lynch is editor-in-chief of IGN. He is a former Guitar Hero character, he previously played in a secret skate rock band and hasn’t reviewed music and stuff for a while.

10. Fez

I don’t care that Fez’s creator Phil Fish said that Japanese games suck. Big shock, a lot of them do. So do plenty of games made everywhere else. Big whoop. What I do care about is how Fez takes a familiar platforming formula that everyone gave up on years ago and cleverly stretches it into a game we’ve never played before but always wanted to.

9. Slender: The Eight Pages

Stark, bare, and unflinching, Slender is pure. horror. Being lost in a forest, searching for clues, hearing the crush of your pursuer grow louder with every hint you find, with nothing to do but walk, run, and turn a flash light on and off. It’s fast, it’s free, and it’s totally effective. Watch yourself in the bathroom.

8. Halo 4

Master Chief has never looked better, sounded better, or played better, and that goes double for his blue and red twerp buddies in multiplayer War Games. Halo 4 is classic Halo, and big props to 343i for delivering a crazy great and super fun Halo reboot under what must have been an immeasurable amount of pressure.

7. FTL: Faster Than Light

If it wasn’t for Ben Prunty’s amazing soundtrack, I’d be half as in love with Faster Than Light than I am. And if there were no solar flares, I’d be a third more in love with FTL. But alas, the soundtrack is amazing, along with the writing, the sparse art design, the super addictive “one more try” appeal, and the clever progression system. Now, about those stupid solar flares.

6. Mark of the Ninja

Everyone has a crush on Dishonored, but if I have to pick one stealth game this year to ball up for, I’d ask Mark of the Ninja to the prom. It’s mix of slick presentation, perfect 2D stealth platforming and ultimate ninja power puzzling combat make it a potent cocktail of play it now. You should.

5. Spelunky

Speluny is as tough as it is adorable. It will easily eat up entire weekends if you let it, but you won’t mind. Like, at all. I have a friend who I hadn’t seen in months. I ran into him last week and the first thing he told me was that he 100%’ed Spelunky. I nearly had a stroke. Spelunky is yet another 2012 game that defies marketing budgets and buttoned-down trends and all the other gobbledygook that developers and publishers so often listen to before they embark on making the next Haze or Fracture. Oh, and Peter Eykemans, you’re my hero, mister 100%. I bow before you.

4. Hotline Miami

People say Hotline Miami is like that movie Drive, but that’s just all wrong. Drive is all about Ryan Gosling’s sweet ass jacket and Carey Mulligan’s heart rate, god bless her. Hotline Miami, on the other hand, is more Smash TV, more blood, more gore, more skull bashing, and yes, neon-lit urban post post-style and music. Sure, Drive traces lines between some of those same sensibilities, but does cutey Ryan throw baseball bats? Um, no. Does he wear a horse mask named Don Juan that allows you to kill people by opening doors? Wait, I think I just wrote Drive 2.

3. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition/Artorias of the Abyss

It’s pretty tough to beat Dark Souls, though my carry-over obsession from last year has subsided some. What started back then with a 24-hour marathon ended with me emphatically championing FromSoftware’s abyssal and indifferent Zelda game for grown-ups, and making the return trip to Lordran this year was well worth it. I even leveled a new Sorcerer for the occasion to take on the new black fire-breathing dragons with the creepy, inky black spellcasting. I know, they said there wouldn’t be any DLC, they said Dark Souls was fully complete. They changed their minds. People do that. Almost GotY that didn’t come out in 2012.

2. The Walking Dead

For better or worse, The Walking Dead will likely become the poster-game for the future of video games. Episodic, choose-your-own-adventurey, short enough to play each piece in one sitting, and emotionally consuming, Telltale’s cruel trip through Robert Kirkman’s dead world is as unforgettable as it defies conventional marketability. It’s a bummer the game itself has so many performance hiccups (exploding saves, weird corruption issues on PC, bad control mechanics on consoles), otherwise it would be my absolute pick for GotY, bloodied hands down.

1. Journey

Journey is a reflection sim disguised as a platformer with dune surfing and chirps. Like the Dark Side Cave on Dagobah, it shows you whatever you bring with you, and specifically in Journey’s case, whatever you project onto it. Some people say it’s a game about nothing, just jumping and sliding through sand. Other people think it’s a game about life and death. Still others believe it’s a meditation on the anonymity of lifelong relationships. I think it’s an awesome game to play while unsober. Game of the year.

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Posted by Joystiq Dec 20 2012 04:59 GMT

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Phil Fish's mysterious, beautiful puzzle platformer, Fez, will be available for half off on Xbox Live tomorrow, for one day only.

That means it's down from the usual 800 Microsoft point price to 400 Microsoft points, or $5. At that price, you'd be crazy to pass up the game we said "burns with a brilliant, red-hot, yellow-tasseled flame."

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If Fez's Creator Made Portable Gaming Systems...

Posted by Kotaku Oct 03 2012 05:30 GMT

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#polytron A while back, Fez developers Polytron released a shirt featuring a not-real gaming handheld called the Polytron Portable Pro. It's now been upgraded to two newer, more contemporary ideas for a not-real handheld. More »

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Microsoft Won't Take Blame for Lack of Fez Fix

Posted by Kotaku Jul 20 2012 18:44 GMT

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Maybe Go Ahead and Download That Fez Patch After All

#fez Microsoft has denied responsibility for a game-breaking glitch that the developers of puzzle game Fez said they couldn't afford to fix. More »

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Posted by Giant Bomb Jul 19 2012 15:43 GMT

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