The war of the consoles...

The war of the consoles: Not much of a war – but a massive victory.

I recently wrote an article for ExtremeTech regarding the current console wars. I actually can't wait to get my hands on an XBOX 360. There's much hype, with very little competition on this particular console. I mentioned the Netflix game service which doesn't seem to be available yet. There are still other services like Gameznflix which offers both movies and games, and Gamefly which specializes in games.

There are actually many services similar to the above coming out. Zip in Canada is just introducing games and, similar to Netflix, will charge extra.

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For what could possibly be the longest most non-anticipated launch in gaming history, Infinium Labs still pops up on my radar every now and then. For those of you who don’t know who Infinium is here is a brief introduction. They are a publicly traded company who has a history of raising money at various stages without actually releasing a commercial product. Understandably, creating a product from the ground up is no easy task and it’s easy to burn through money during the R&D stage. There should be a point when one might consider pulling the plug, and unbelievably Infinium hasn’t reached that point yet. Infinium has had a checkered history with loads of rumor and innuendo, a quick Google search reveals a PR managers (or in this case, Investor Relations) worst nightmare.

So Infinium’s concept involves a piece of hardware that they refer to as a console, which is really just a low end PC inside of a...

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