It was a mystery for NVIDIA’s Andrew Humber when asked about the reason of NVIDIA Corporation’s logotype presence on a web-site of Infinium Labs, a small startup that develops a console called Phantom. Besides, I found “Intel Inside” logotype on the same web-site here.

NVIDIA representative said that the GPU designer has once met with Infinium Labs officials, but it seems too early for the latter to place NVIDIA’s logotypes on its web-site. I have no official statement from Intel at this point.

Currently very little is known about Phantom console, except the fact that it seems to be based on PC architecture and will run both PC games and ported console games. The main idea of Infinium Labs’ Phantom is to offer a lot of online services for broadband users, including providing ability to beta, demo, rent and play games online. Infinium Labs promise that the Phantom console will be a way better than traditional PCs and gaming consoles. What is really interesting, Infinium intends to offer seamless upgrades and patch management. It means that the console will have a HDD as well as expansion capabilities. Unfortunately, there is no information whether the Phantom is a Linux-based console, or a Windows-based console.

I can remember a company named Indrema, who was going to make a revolution in the gaming world with its L600 console, but failed and eventually vanished into thin air because of insufficient funds and lack of strong support by the industry. If the project was not cancelled, the console would utilise Linux-like operating system and powerful PC hardware.

Infinium Labs’ domain name was registered back in 1996, so, the company does not seem to be another young startup with never-ending promises and actual inability to execute. On the other hand, there is no information about its product and actual ability to deliver and support the Phantom.