New gaming rig or just a Phantom...

[Showtime]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/08/27/hln.game.phantom/index.html

Sounds like cable-video-gaming.... :wow: It is cable-video-gaming.:shrug:

-jel:halo:

[gear02]

I think it's vaporware. I signed up for their beta, but I'm not expecting a real, live piece of hardware. They say that they're going into beta soon, but we haven't seen a picture of the hardware or screenshots.

Check out this from Penny Arcade. Scroll down to about half way, under the heading of "Oh, Right"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2003-08-22

For those who are lazy, there's the kicker:


Steve from HardOCP dropped the following science on me yesterday:

We had a reader go by Infinium Labs and take pictures of their "facility" ( that's when we found out it was a strip mall in the Florida Keys ) only to find out it was a single desk in a 100 x 100ft room with two phones and no furniture. That was about 4 months ago.

I talked to the Tim Roberts guy on the phone when he returned my call ( 22 days after I left a message ) and when I asked him about all this...he HUNG UP ON ME. I asked him if he was looking for investors, he said "We are actively recruiting investors". I asked him if they had any consoles on hand, he said "We have several hundred prototype models here in the office". So then I asked him where the prototypes were made, he said "right here in our facility". Then I told him I had seen his 100ft x 100ft office space conveinently located next to Missing Link Art Gallery in the strip mall ( located at 5380 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Longboat Key, Fl 34228 ) and he went NUTS!!! "WHO THE F*CK IS THIS!?!?! BLAH BLAH I'LL SUE YOU".

Sounds like a scam to me.

[Showtime]

Ha ha thats some good stuff. I love it when scammers get caught in the act.

-jel:halo:

[ski]

Despite how much of a flop I think it will be, I think they're really going to come out with it

[apmiller]

I think it's a big freakin joke but we could be seeing a bit of the future of gaming in this thing.

As there is more and more of a push for online gaming we could end up with an Xbox or Playstation that is just a big modem for getting access to all your games online. No buying CD's just opening up accounts for the games you want to try.