Infinium vs. HardOCP Court Docs

jtcm writes "In a follow-up to several previous articles, The Inquirer has obtained a copy of of the suit filed in the Infinium vs. HardOCP case. It's certainly worth perusal."

Comments

Re:Obligatory..

[Anonymous Coward]

Try: PA Reference

What's worth reading?

[Andy_R]

Having read the previous stories, I didn't find anthing new here, it's just the same old whining dressed up in badly written legalese. Oh, and a badly scanned in black and white print of the website.

This is not funny either

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not funny either

Imagine my suprise..

[freaksta]

when i opened the PDF and it said SARASOTA at the top.. thats where I live.

They're Kidding, Right?

[GTRacer]

I mean seriously, this is Tim Roberts' idea of a great April Fool's joke, innit?

I had to stop reading after the first 8 pages I was in such hysterics! Some sig-worthy lines:

Infinium was positioned to become an industry leading global entertainment and interactive game company.

Severe damage has been caused to the Plaintiffs reputations in the business community...

The Article was published with the specific and malicious intent of causing damage to the reputations of Roberts, Infinium, and the Infinium Phantom Game System.

While Mr. Roberts is right that his reputation has been tarnished, [H]ardOCP just reported on the obvious. Roberts did himself in with his spotty history and lack of forthrightness.

As a gamer, I'd like another capable system to choose from. But I don't think these guys have it. Or maybe they do. Someone should check if they've got DNF as a launch title...

GTRacer
- Really, this is a joke, right?

Re:They're Kidding, Right?

[black mariah]

When you're less credible than the people responsible for DNF, you know you're in trouble. ;-)

Re:They're Kidding, Right?

[MachDelta]

Aw man, you missed the best line right at the top of page 9! (The filing is only 12 pages of text btw).

Infinium had a good reputation in the gaming and high tech industries.

ROFL.
Whatever their lawyers are smoking... I want some.


Oh, and on a more serious note... Infinium is claiming they lost more than $20 mil (in capital) because of the article. Riiight then.

Re:They're Kidding, Right?

[UnrepentantHarlequin]

According to Infinium:

A. The facts in HardOCP's article were false and could be readily determined to be false with the most minimal of investigation.

B. They lost venture capital because of the HardOCP article.

Now, unless the court is willing to believe that all of those investors made their decisions solely on the basis of one single article on a game website without investigating either the statements made in the article or the company itself, both A. and B. cannot both be true.

Plus of course nobody trusts a company that says "We've got this great thingie, we won't let you see it, but it's real, honest it is!"

Perhaps the Phantom is the platform that Dawn will run on?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a box with a blue light inside.

For the love of god, drop it

[Anonymous Coward]

Articles about DNF being pushed back stopped being newsworthy around the turn of the millenium. Jokes about DNF being vaporware stopped being funny the day after.
We need some quality control in the jokes department people.
Hot grits indeed...

Now there's someone to blame

[Anonymous Coward]

Now they can blame the console not coming to markey on HardOCP, rather than take personal responsibility for their own vaporware. If you read the lawsuit, it says that the console was already developed, but because of Kyle Bennet's article they lost funding and can't mass produce it. It also says they lost their good standing reputation in the gaming community. Honestly, who liked these guys? They had no offices, produced no working Phantom consoles for anyone to review, and never let anyone tour their "production facility". Kyle was 100% right about these guys and Roberts et al deserves to go to jail for the way he has driven companies into bankruptcy and bilked investors.

Serious?

[CelticWhisper]

You know...as much as I love laughing at Infinium, I do have to wonder what kind of impact the system will have when/if it is released. Going up against the big 3 will be an uphill battle to say the least, but maybe it'll become a successful "fringe system?"

Seems to me that it's really all about the games. If they can get a library that's interesting enough, not even necessarily expansive enough or having the big names, but one that sparks enough gamer interest, they might have a shot at, at the very least, success in their own arena. The biggest problem I see with the Xbox is that there are so many sports and driving games, one (theoretically, from my POV) wouldn't know where to begin, much less what's good and what's bad. Review websites notwithstanding, it's difficult to separate the cream of the crop from the cream of the crap in a scenario like that. Gamecube has plenty of action/adventure games and platformers, but is a little bit lacking in other genres. PS2 has such a large library that there's a lot of room for crap to slip through. If Infinium can get a good, decently-sized, and balanced library with some original titles, and maybe some "concept games" like Rez, Vib Ribbon, Fantavision, and the like; games that break molds and create some of their own, they could try for an Apple-style "think different" image.

Of course, then they'd face the wrath of Apple's legal team, and the days of Tycho and Gabe's merciless heckling will seem pleasant to them.