The Nintendo Switch has emerged as the eminent platforms for indie games. The portable HD screen is bigger and has more comfortable buttons than the Vita, and the mobility of the Switch allows the games to be played anywhere unlike the PlayStation 4 or Steam. Because of these benefits and a swath of recent announcements, many developers clearly prefer putting their games on the Switch...
It's getting warmer outside! Green is budding up after an extraordinarly long and cold winter. In my half of the world, cherry blossom petals will be blooming soon and require an immediate picnic to occur beneath them. Spring is finally here, so what better way to celebrate than slamming yourself in front of a TV and playing some video games, just like you've been doing all winter?...
FEZ is finally making its way to the PlayStation library. Polytron and Sony have announced that this perspective switching puzzle platforming adventure will hit the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PS Vita on March 25. The best bit of the news? The game will be part of the Cross-Buy program, so you’ll be able to play it on all three platforms after buying it only once. FEZ launching...
Just a month and a half after the announcement of Fez II, Polytron is canceling Fez II and Phil Fish is announcing his departure from game development altogether, following a couple of recent blow-ups on Twitter between the creator and various other personalities in the greater games industry. Fish wrote on the Polytron website that “FEZ II is cancelled. I am done. I take the money...
Last weekend, Phil Fish got into quite the dust-up on Twitter. Fish is the Co-Founder of Polytron and the main mind behind last year’s wonderful FEZ. During the incident on Twitter, Fish cancelled FEZ 2 and announced his departure from the games industry entirely. Here’s a screenshot of those tweets. (Warning: Contains harsh language) It turns out, as most of us had deduced, that...
Fez creator Phil Fish is finally on the verge of finishing his epic spat with Microsoft over the expensive price of game patches through XBLA. His popular indie game is finally getting the much needed patch update now that Microsoft is no longer charging top dollar for indie developers to apply them. Fish took to Twitter to make the announcement, exclaiming proudly, "GOOD NEWS EVERYONE...
It's hard to believe a year has already passed since FEZ first launched on April 13, 2012. After a development phase that took over five years to complete, the game finally released to warm reception from critics across the board. Polytron's indie-darling has sold 200,000 copies over its first year on Xbox Live Arcade, and while not ridiculously, incredibly impressive numbers on today'...
We're almost a month into 2013; time to leave 2012 behind and look forward. There's one part of last year's video games that I can't seem to leave behind, though. Even if I'm mostly finished with last year's games, I'm still listening to the music. Good video game music—the kind that both enhances the game and stands apart from it—is getting more and more common. From the past few...
Phil Fish, creator of the indie hit Fez, had a pretty turbulent year it seems. His long awaited game finally shipped out to critical praise, and a documentary about his experience making the thing took home top honors at the Sundance Film Festival. At the same time, his reputation still precedes him as a guy who talks a little too much for his own good. But, he's heard his fans loud...