Update: Polytron has released an announcement on its website about Fez II’s cancellation and Phil Fish has stated that he cancelled the sport inside the interest of leaving the games industry.

Here’s the total statement from Polytron:

FEZ II is cancelled. i’m done. i take the cash and that i run. here’s up to i’m able to stomach. this is often isn’t the results of any person thing, however the end of a protracted, bloody campaign. you win.

Additionally, Phil Fish tweeted, “to be clear, im not cancelling FEZ II because some boorish f*** said something stupid, im doing it to get out of games,” and followed up saying, “and im getting out of games because i select to not post with this abuse anymore.”

Original story:

Polytron and Fez creator Phil Fish sent out tweets today, and confirmed via e-mail, announcing Fez II has ceased development.

Fez II was announced during E3 with a short lived teaser, but otherwise no additional details were revealed in regards to the game. We reached out to Fish to verify the game’s cancellation to which he replied, “yup. it’s over.“