Infinium nearing release of . . not the Phantom
Posted by inpheaux on December 28th, 2005 at 6:30 pmOh, Infinium Labs.
As what appears to be a desperate last-ditch effort, Infinium Labs announced today that after years upon years of "development" [which largely consisted of shamelessly mooching off of their investors], they are finally nearing the relase of a product. Said product, however, is not their Phantom Gaming Internet On-Demand Cable Distribution Console Platform [...]
Acclaim is back, in Zombie MMO-porting form
Posted by inpheaux on December 10th, 2005 at 1:19 pmYou know what we obviously need? We need a stateside MMO game scene as ridiculously crowded as it is in Korea, the land where there are more MMO's being released every week than pop albums. The only country in the world that has taken EA-Style shovelware game-development practices and successfully applied it to the MMO [...]
Another Dose of Infinium Comedy
Posted by inpheaux on November 21st, 2005 at 12:24 pmHooray! It's time for some more news from Infinium, everyone's favorite vaporware developer, which has been gleefully milking venture capitalists for what seems like aeons now. So, what are they up to this time? Well, it's been a few months since the last shake-up of their "corporate leadership", so clearly, it's time for that to [...]
Coming Soon: another giant Star Wars Galaxies trainwreck
Posted by inpheaux on November 3rd, 2005 at 4:16 amOh Sony, what won't you do to alienate your audience?
SOE is currently in the process of testing another massive overhaul to how Star Wars Galaxies works. There aren't exactly charts keeping track of all the different bits of drama that spawn from MMORPGs, so I don't have a definitive comparative list here, but I'm pretty [...]
Want the publishing rights to Mortal Kombat?
Posted by inpheaux on October 1st, 2005 at 12:53 pmOr Revolution X? Smash TV? NBA Jam? How about Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game? Well, now's your chance.
As part of their ongoing asset liquidation due to their bankruptcy, Acclaim is auctioning off all their publishing rights. I don't really care enough to want to examine how exactly this process works, but if you're really [...]
Revolution Controller Design Tool
Posted by inpheaux on August 6th, 2005 at 1:43 pmYou've probably noticed by now that unlike some other sites, we don't consider controller mockups or hilariously fake "design renders" as news. We don't report on these items because, seriously, who cares? Posting such things as news places a site alongside such other paragons of journalistic integrity as the Weekly World News.
However, we just couldn't [...]
Jack Thompson is still on the warpath
Posted by inpheaux on July 22nd, 2005 at 4:30 pmOh Jack Thompson, what won't you lash out against?
I didn't properly introduce this guy when I referenced him in my GTA:SA tirade earlier in the week. Jack Thompson is the fearmongering anti-gaming pundit behind the wildly insightful and not in any way biased website StopKill. Thompson was one of the "experts" whose zealotry helped push [...]
Infinium Labs still not dead
Posted by inpheaux on July 19th, 2005 at 11:23 amI had to make a 'Humor' category just for this article.
I love the Phantom. I love how it's a giant shameless scam to rake in venture capital, I love how they somehow dragged Kevin Bacchus into it, I love how their WORLD HEADQUARTERS is in a strip mall in Sarasota, I love how even [...]