The much-delayed Phantom Game Service and PC hardware based Phantom Game Receiver are still in the works despite the recent silence from would-be platform holder Infinium Labs.

 

The first news from the company in several months has emerged over the past few weeks, with Infinium announcing that it has appointed The Mauretania Import Export Company (TMIEC), a firm specialising in developing multimedia brands for games, film and TV, to expand its content acquisition efforts.

 

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As to when that launch will be, sources close to the company have indicated that a new round of funding is being closed at the moment, with a view to bringing the console to market - finally - in early 2006.

 

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Less positive news for Infinium, however, came as the company's stock hit investment headlines this week for being linked to a scam that has seen the Securities and Exchange Commission charging three men for around $600,000 of fraudulent actions.

 

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Eurogamer / GameIndustry

Existance is futile Infinium Labs!

The recent issue of Famitsu showed off Ninety-Nine Nights and eNCHANTED arM. Both going to hit the Xbox 360 sometime.

Ninety-Nine Nights

eNCHANTED arM

No translation at the moment.

Scans were posted on 2ch. Then followed to 4ch.

(Forgot to add Sakaguchi's interview)

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has hinted that neither of his forthcoming Xbox 360 RPGs will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show in September.

 

However, that doesn't mean work on Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey isn't going according to plan. Referring to the former title, Sakaguchi told Famitsu magazine: "The screen is starting to get developed, and we've been able to decide on the orientation of its graphics, and what kind of lighting and effects we want.

 

"We're currently in the process of making tons of [additional graphics]."

 

Lost Odyssey is "progressing about the same," Sakaguchi said.

 

"The characters are starting to move in the game screen little by little, and we're figuring out where we want to go with its graphics."

Catch the rest of the article at Eurogamer. (Yes, right now this is my source, theres others, but I don't feel like reading french).

(forgot this one too)

Xbox 360 to have Parental Controls for software.

An iPod-style Ceramic White edition of the PSP is set to launch in Japan on September 15th, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has announced.

 

The new edition will only be available as a value pack and will go on sale with a 26,040 Yen price point (£134/ 193 Euros). The Ceramic White edition will be the first of a variety of new colours, SCEJ confirmed, with accessories being made available separately.

 

It is not yet known if or when the Ceramic edition will be available overseas, but Sony's track record of introducing colour variations of the PS2 is well established in Europe.

 

Meanwhile, Sony also announced that Internet browsing functionality will be officially added to the PSP from July 27th. Users will be able to visit the SCEI website and update the system software on their PSPs to version 2.0, allowing them to install an Internet browser.

 

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The long-awaited European launch is set for Thursday September 1st.

Eurogamer

I've been checking IGN every week for more information on this and I'd have to give a major "Hell Yeah!" as well for this game. Definately on my buy list when it comes out.

July 20, 2005 - Though Sony had already confirmed that Yuke's Media Creations (the technical force behind THQ's SmackDown series) was working on a PSP wrestling game in a somewhat-buried list of confirmed Japanese developers, concrete news about the title hasn't appeared for more than a year. That is, until now. Later this afternoon, during the annual Japanese trade show known as "PlayStation Meeting 2005," THQ and Yuke's will reveal the portable version of WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006 to an unsuspecting audience (though, now that we told everybody, I guess they will suspect it, hmmm?)

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