{"id":564456,"date":"2026-03-13T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:04:03","slug":"fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fez at 10 years old: Phil Fish resurfaces for a rare interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I published a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-10-year-anniversary-retrospective\">looking back at 10 years of Fez<\/a>, and while writing it, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder what the game&#8217;s creator, Phil Fish, was up to now. <\/p>\n<p>Just to recap: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-2-cancelled-fish-swims-away-from-the-games-industry\">Fish left the games industry not long after Fez&#8217;s release, cancelling Fez 2 in the process<\/a>. He then partially re-emerged with indie publishing label Polytron Partners a year later, in 2014, but was driven away again by repeated harassment from GamerGate. The last we saw of him was a collaboration on 2016 VR game SuperHypeCube.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d drop him a line for editorial process&#8217; sake, then, but I didn&#8217;t expect to hear anything back. A games journalist is probably the last person he wants to hear from. But I was wrong and he did reply, and so in a stretched out celebration of Fez&#8217;s birthday, here&#8217;s what he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I published a piece looking back at 10 years of Fez, and while writing it, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder what the game&#8217;s creator, Phil Fish, was up to now. Just to recap: Fish left the games industry not long after Fez&#8217;s release, cancelling Fez 2 in the process. He then partially re-emerged with indie publishing label Polytron Partners a year later, in 2014, but was driven away again by repeated harassment from GamerGate. The last we saw of him was a collaboration on 2016 VR game SuperHypeCube. 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But I was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/fez-at-10-years-old-phil-fish-resurfaces-for-a-rare-interview\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[3739,7240],"class_list":["post-564456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-fez","tag-fez-pocket-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fez at 10 years old: Phil Fish resurfaces for a rare interview | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday, I published a piece looking back at 10 years of Fez, and while writing it, I couldn&#039;t help but wonder what the game&#039;s 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