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Fez wins over the audience at Fantastic Arcade
Another year of Austin's annual videogame festival Fantastic Arcade has come to an end, but not without a couple winners, losers (haha!), and pissed-off Norwegians. Seriously, don't make eye-contact with them. They will mess your sh*t up. The biggest winner is also the most predictable one: Fez takes home the Audience Choice Award along with a neat Lego statue. Faraway (by Little--Eyes) won the Best in Show award, which would be pretty impressive if I knew anything about the panel of judges. My game of show? GUN BULLET! Pinballz Arcade were nice enough to bring its cabinet to the show and set it on free-play. I played it obsessively over the past couple days. Click below for the full list of winners.
For those of you foaming at the mouth for some quasi-3D indie-platforming action, word has it that you may have to wait a while longer. Fez is saying, "Screw you" to 2011 and moving to an early 2012 release date. Damn, now we'll never know if it would have outsold Skyrim! Once I get done flunking out of college and typing up some film reviews for Flixist -- which you better read everyday for awesome movie news -- I'll have the rest of my Fantastic Arcade previews up for you all to read, including a first look at Serious Sam: The Random Encounter and what may be Pixeljunk's finest game yet (hint: It's not 4am).
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Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)still pissed I couldn't head up there today. Really wanted to play some Fez. Glad it one the award though. Fez is like a carrot teased in front of a donkey. I want it so bad, but I'm starting to think we'll never get it... Hard to believe that this game has to be pushed back further. How many years has it been now?? Anyway, put it on Steam and make some fucking money, will ya???? I'm a Norwegian dude, and I am PISSED... for not knowing the connection between this and Norwegians... I went down to the Fantastic Arcade also. I saw Fez playing and it looked pretty good. I would have tried it out, but I didn't feel like waiting. I did get to play Starhawk, though, which was crazy fun. 1:30 PM on 04.09.2013 EA voted worst American company in 2013How time flies! In April of last year, Electronic Arts "won" the worst American company of 2012 award, beating out near-criminal banks and oil companies to achieve victory in The Consumerist's publicly voted poll. EA has now ...
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| 4:15 PM on 03.18.2013 Fez creator in talks with Sony about a Vita version |

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| 12:00 PM on 03.18.2013 Fez finds home on Steam this May |

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