Fez Passes XBLA Certification

Polytron's much anticipated, oft-delayed dimension bending platformer Fez has passed the Xbox Live Arcade's certification process, meaning the game has now cleared its final pre-release hurdle.

"FEZ IS CERTIFIED," the developer tweeted in all-caps jubilation. "Locking down the release date is the only thing left to do. You'll know when we know."

Of course, speaking as someone who's been following Fez since it was first announced five years ago, this all feels a little too good to be true. Surely something will go wrong between now and launch.

Maybe a clumsy Microsoft employee will accidentally slip and press the button that deletes their copy of the game at the exact moment lightning strikes the Polytron offices and wipes their hard drives clean. Maybe Microsoft will declare bankruptcy and abruptly shut down the Xbox Live Arcade minutes before the game is scheduled to go live. Maybe the sun will explode and engulf the Earth in an enormous fireball just as my download reaches 99%.

Then again, we are living in a post-Duke Nukem Forever world, so I suppose anything is possible.