Infinium Labs is a company developing a new video game console called the The Phantom (game system), which has gone through several revisions and currently slated for an early 2006 release. Infinium was founded by Tim Roberts in 2002. Tim Roberts left the company in the summer of 2005 with millions of shares of stock but no product.

Steve Lynch wrote a less-than-positive report on the company and its founder that was posted in September 2003 at HardOCP, a computer hardware news website. Infinium Labs threatened to file a defamation suit in 2004 against HardOCP claiming that the article painted a portrait of a company intent on swindling the public. On February 27, HardOCP struck first, filing a lawsuit that asked a judge to rule that it did not libel the company or its founder. Infinium dropped its opposition to HardOCP s lawsuit on January 5, 2005, but both groups ended up tarnished by the experience.

The Phantom is at essence a personal computer, made of off-the-shelf components and hardware. The makers claim it will be able to play games streamed over the Internet through a broadband connection for a monthly fee.

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