Category Archives: Too Weird

Phantom to go live Nov. 18

Posted on June 29, 2004 by Ron

Kevin Bachus shared the stage with Sun’s Scott McNealy at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to announce the; “Phantom Gaming Service is slated to go live Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. The Phantom Game Receiver will ship with the full … Continue reading →

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Ex-Infinium Officer sues, case settled out of court

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Ron

Ex-Infinium Executive Vice President Terry Nagy is suing Infinium Labs as well as officers Timothy Roberts and Robert Shambro for fraud and breach of contract. Nagy started working for Infinium in 2002. He says his job was to acquire gaming … Continue reading →

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More Inifinium amusements

Posted on March 29, 2004 by Ron

Kyle Bennett, owner and mouthpiece for HardOCP.com, announced that HardOCP has filed a lawsuit against Infinium Labs in response to Infinium Lab’s demands to HardOCP demanding that the site retract an article published last September which profiled Infinium’s CEO Tim … Continue reading →

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Another ex-CEG’er, Kevin Bachus, ends up at Infinium Labs

Posted on January 30, 2004 by Ron

Infinium Labs reported that it’s hired Kevin Bachus as President and Chief Operating Officer. The Florida based start-up announced that his immediate focus will be the launch of the company’s Phantom Gaming Service, a broadband-based gaming system that will provide … Continue reading →

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CEG goes bellyup – Seamus goes to Hollywood

Posted on December 12, 2003 by Ron

In a somewhat quiet announcement (which is my excuse for not noticing it allure) Capital Entertainment Group closed its doors in October seemingly due to lack of interest from VC’s to further fund the company (to the tune of $US20-30 … Continue reading →

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Ace’s Hardware finds some skewed numbers running 3DMark03

Posted on August 4, 2003 by Ron

Are the days of benchmark apps numbered? In an interesting review of testing systems, Ace’s Hardware ran 3DMark03 on systems from a 350Mhz PII to an 2.8Ghz P4. It turns out that while games show significant sensitivity to the CPU, … Continue reading →

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Further NVIDIA optimizations…

Posted on June 12, 2003 by Ron

This story get keeps getting more interesting. On June 2nd FutureMark retreated a bit from earlier claims, stating that they’d run across some optimizations and not cheats when testing the latest drivers from NVIDIA.. The latest twist involves further evidence … Continue reading →

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Fun and Games at E3

Posted on May 27, 2003 by Ron

It’s come to my attention that not only did NVIDIA have the band Smashmouth at their E3 party, they had porn star “Catalina” there as well. (view the party pix here…) which has apparently upset some shareholders on the Yahoo … Continue reading →

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