Bachus Talks Phantom Rehabilitation Tactics

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @08:17PM from the convalescence-long-overdue dept.

Thanks to HeraldTribune.com for its article discussing prospects for the Phantom PC 'console' with new Infinium president Kevin Bachus. Bachus, a recent ex-Microsoft appointment to the PR-challenged Infinium Labs, discusses possible release dates: "The challenge I have given my team... is we've got to be out with a product for this holiday season." He also acknowledges skepticism over the product: "When I first heard about Infinium I was squarely in that camp as well", but suggests the PC compatibility for the 'console' means that "...there are thousands of people out there writing Phantom games today... They just don't know it." GameSpy also has an interview with Bachus in which he argues: "What's interesting about our service is that we can offer an outlet for independent developers. Will we have something that's the gaming equivalent of The Sundance Channel? Probably."

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Re:Frizzy Pizzy by Goldberg's+Pants · 2004-01-29 00:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Definitely. All they have right now is hype. I mean that list of games that appeared a while ago, all they did was cut and paste a list of PC games, some of them over five years old.

My spidersense is tingling with this article... The whole thing sounds more like a way to scam venture capital out of gullible investors than anything else. I've not seen hyperbole like this since the dot com crash. It's unbelievable!

If this console makes it to market with everything they're promising, I will do to myself what the Goatsex guy did...