Just a reminder in case you forgot to put on your little red hat this morning: Fez is out on PC now. The game was on our 2012 indies list and received a positive critical reception for its brain-bending challenges, so pick it up if you've been waiting for it to hit your platform of choice.

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Fez has just turned one year old, and it's celebrating with 200,000 candles. Creator Phil Fish revealed that the game sold that many copies on Xbox Live Arcade alone, as the game prepares for its launch on PC in May.

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Phil Fish promised his "2D" platformer, Fez, would be moving onto other platforms. Lo, and behold--PC is the next platform for the critically acclaimed indie hit.

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2012 proved that indies could compete with the rest of 'em. Noteworthy indies, such as Mark of the Ninja, Faster than Light, Journey, and The Walking Dead, all made the Shacknews Best of 2012 list. But there are quite a few titles that you may have missed last year.

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The joys of adventuring in a 3D world as a 2D chap, not to mention scrawling pages of notes in an attempt to decipher cryptic symbols, are coming to new audiences this year. Much-beloved spin-o-jump 'em up Fez is shedding its Xbox Live Arcade exclusivity and coming to unspecified "other platforms" in 2013, creator Phil Fish has announced.

Read more: "A couple of new games in the pipeline" too

Indie darling Fez could have made an appearance on mobile devices. According to a tweet from Polytron, the company was approached by none other than Zynga to bring the Xbox Live Arcade game to handheld devices. "We politely refused," the tweet states, before taking a jab at the social media giant. "So, look forward to Zynga's FEX any day now, I guess!"

Zynga has been accused of launching copycat clones when planned acquisitions don't work out, as was the case for Tiny Tower. EA recently filed a lawsuit against the company, saying that it was a company large enough to go against the 'Ville publisher.

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Garnett and the two Jeffs are joined by regular guest Andrea Rene this week to liven up the summer gaming drought with discussions about a number of games and some recent news. The psychedelic action game DYAD gets praised some more, and some fresh Borderlands 2 details are shared. In the spirit of clearing out summer backlogs, Garnett finally dives into the post-apocalyptic Russian subway system of Metro 2033, and comes away quite impressed. The mild controversy surrounding the Fez patch also gets discussed, before the crew brings it all home with Finishing Moves.

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When Polytron released the first patch for Fez in June, it discovered that a bug was corrupting some player's saved games and promptly pulled the title update. Which is perfectly sensible. However, it's now re-releasing that very same patch without fixing it at all, "Because Microsoft would charge us tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game."

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Phil Fish, the man behind the noodle-scratching puzzler Fez, says he has two more projects in the works. Both games were in progress before he left them for Fez, but now that it's finished he is trying to choose which he will focus his time on first. He didn't share details on either game concept, or even their names.

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Indie platform game/Mensa test Fez caught attention for its inventive puzzles and cute aesthetic, but it had a few odd bugs. A new patch aimed to fix those, but in the process it added a few more bugs. Specifically, it might corrupt your save file.

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There's no two ways around it, the run to E3 has started. Big news leads off this episode of Weekend Confirmed with Sony announcing a new God of War game in the works for PlayStation 3. One of last year's E3 surprises, Prey 2, also finds its way into the news with word of a delay as rumors swirl around its development. Screen Tear host Carlos Rodela joins the two Jeff's and Garnett as they tackles these stories along with more love for Fez and plenty of enthusiasm for the finger-melting action of Trials Evolution. There's even some board game love worked in there before Finishing Moves brings it all home.

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Ever since I had a chance to play a little bit of Fez at last year's IndieCade festival, I'd been anxiously awaiting its release. At the time, it wowed me with its aesthetics--both nostalgic and beautiful--and its seemingly pure focus on exploration above all else. In short, I've had pretty high hopes for the game. Now that the Xbox Live Arcade exclusive is out in the wild and I've been able to spend quite a bit more time with it, I'm happy to report that the game is continuing to surprise and delight in a number of unexpected ways.

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Andrea, the two Jeff's, and Garnett waste no time getting right to all the new info on Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, and Devil May Cry coming out of Capcom's recent press event. They also have a few quick updates from a similar event held by Namco that unveiled a PC version of Dark Souls and provided an update on the status of a western release for Ni No Kuni. We also get a first look at FEZ and Andrea shares some of what she saw at PAX East, including the awesome-sounding indie, Super T.I.M.E. Force. There's much more along the way as well before putting the Finishing Moves on this episode.

Listen: Weekend Confirmed Episode 108 »

Gears of War developer Epic games offered a couple of revelations over the weekend at PAX East. Designer Cliffy B told GameSpot in an interview that an unannounced game titled Gears of War: Exile had been cancelled, and that that was all he had to say on the matter. During an earlier panel at the expo he also promised that the studio is now working on a new PC game. The Netflix app for the Xbox 360 received an update today that promises more vivid colors and deeper blacks along with a few other nice-to-have improvements. And it's a digital download sort of week for new releases with Fez, Skullgirls, and Tribes: Ascend leading the pack.

Check out today's episode of Shacknews Daily.

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After several years and just as many delays, charming puzzle-platformer Fez finally has a firm release date: Friday, April 13 on Xbox Live Arcade. It's unlucky for some, and a break from XBLA's regular Wednesday releases, but it'll take more than superstitious claptrap to stop the winner of the Independent Games Festival 2012 Grand Prize.

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