Phil Fish's indie title, Fez, recently received a patch that somehow caused some players' save files to be seen as corrupted by the game. Microsoft has pulled the patch in response and developer Polytron is trying to fix things.

"There is an issue that seems fairly widespread where the save file can be seen as corrupted by the game after installing the patch," said a statement on the Polytron website. "We're floored that this wasn't found in testing.

"For the moment, deleting your system cache should resolve the issue, but if that fails, there is no known workaround. We'll keep you updated on the situation."

After the patch was pulled, a new statement was posted that read, "UPDATE: CRISIS SEMI-AVERTED! Microsoft has pulled the patch out of Live for now, so at least the problem won't affect new users.

"We're trying to find out what happened and fix it as soon as possible. Like, in less than two months.

"YAY GAME DEVELOPMENT!"

That "two months" bit was a tongue-in-cheek slap at other devs taking their time in patching faulty games, no doubt. One hopes, anyway.

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