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here is the hard "truth", or something close enough too it.

"The PS3: 1543.2 games available from day one!" No other console maker could compete with a statement like that.

Well, there is one company who can compete with that. It seems the Phantom will have upwards of 32,000 games at launch!

Infinium continue introducing the 'Phantom', claiming that there are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles not including; adult, casino, sequels and new releases of the past 6 months.

That is, if there ever actually IS a launch.

Based on the fact that there is a claim for a huge existing game base, I am guessing that they are actually a PC platform that will be able to play pre-existing PC games. In addition, if you look at the images on their announcement site, in the transparent front view, you can see what looks to be PCI cards sticking up, as well as a harddrive and processor heatsink profile. The form factor even looks like an ATX. My money is that they are trying remarket a low end PC as a gaming platform.

Not true

I have been a fan of Square and Enix for many, many years. I still remember playing the very first Dragon Warrior (or, as the Japanese call it, "Dragon Quest") game on my Nintendo Entertainment System, not to mention Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV (which Americans know as "Final Fantasy II"), V, VI (which Americans know as "Final Fantasy III"), VII, VIII, IX, and X! Have you seen Final Fantasy XI yet? It's outstanding.

• IGN PS2: Square and Enix to merge
• CBS Marketwatch: Square, Enix to merge next year
• Games Asylum: Square and Enix, up a tree
• Ferrago: Square and Enix to merge
• Mainichi Shimbun (in Japan) : Dark age forces role-playing giants to join forces
• IGN GameCube: Square and Enix to merge

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Inspector Carla Valenti and her team-mate agent Tyler Miles are in charge of the investigation.

In this game, the cops are the bad guys. Carla Valenti is one of the cops.

In the real world, Jack Valenti is the head of the MPAAfia.

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LukeG writes "Squaresoft's latest installment in the ubiquitous Final Fantasy series will mark a huge departure from the previous titles, as they gamble on the popularity of massively multiplayer gaming on consoles. The genre, already successful on the PC, has yet to be tested on a console audience, but that is exactly what Square are planning with the groundbreaking release of Final Fantasy XI later this year on the PS2." I'm interested to see the FF world taken ???to an MMORPG. If anyone can make the genre not suck, it's Square.

LukeG writes "Squaresoft's latest installment in the ubiquitous Final Fantasy series will mark a huge departure from the previous titles, as they gamble on the popularity of massively multiplayer gaming on consoles. The genre, already successful on the PC, has yet to be tested on a console audience, but that is exactly what Square are planning with the groundbreaking release of Final Fantasy XI later this year on the PS2." I'm interested to see the FF world taken ???to an MMORPG. If anyone can make the genre not suck, it's Square.

Hi there, whilst it's true that at the moment the XB and the GCube do seem to be hopelessly languishing - I've a suspicion that the playing feild will begin to level, especially in the USA, once the market is flooded with units. Also, the potential of the XB seems to be greater than the other too, because of the number excellent PC titles in development; though this does assume that their is the audience for 'PC' games console! Title's like Unreal Championship (see this preview) on XBox could make a difference, though the the number of new titles in dev for GCube do seem rather too limited..

I tried to download the game, but of course Fileplanet is full, but they would nicely let me download it, if I signed up for thier service. Not today... Ok, lucky BluesNews had a link that worked. 3 hours later I was good to go.

Launched the server, didnt know how to tell it private, so I reduced it to 4 guys. Within 1 minute the server was full. Everyone also just downloaded and I was the only server that had a good ping in Seattle. lol Played for 2 hours, learning, then found a 12 person server, much better.

Likes.. :)
Well, its not quake3 with powerups, you get killed quick. You have to watch yourself, its like more like CounterStrike in that respect. Good GFX, fast game play, the level was just made for deathmatch.
Respawn points are rooms in back, so you dont get spawn killed. That was a MAJOR change to most multiplayer games.

Dislikes:
The only level was kinda small, After getting killed by a damn sniper in a good spot, I switched to rockets, (only get 6 shots) and spamed hit window. Dead. :) Started to play it like quake3a and that was fun for awhile. I finally switched to the machine gun, started to do head shots, and stayed in the hallways. Thats when my points went up, and stopped getting killed. I think the shot gun should be tweaked, up closed dead, farther away, usless. Also taunting the enemy in german was a neat idea.

But all the new games, Serrious Sam 2 beta engine ROCKS. It actually lets you pick the refresh rate, and turn on all the options to make it look freaking awesome. Even plays OGG music files too.

Also, New York Racing came out, its about the movie the 5th element, but a race game with floating cars. Gotta pick that up, the demo was really good. Not alot of news about it, but read one on ISO News