https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAKuz5eB5jA If you think 2014 is a miasma of misleading PR buzzwords and hype-trains running amuck with your expectations, take a look at this incredibly over-the-top - yet immensely vague - reveal video for the Phantom, Infinium Labs' foray into games-on-demand systems for the masses. It's like being assaulted by someone wielding a couple of glow-sticks as they shout slogans at you, leaving the only thing in the memory as this is a thing, that's happening. Even now, talks of the Phantom relate back to a rumoured showing at 2004's E3, although aside from some shots of a reportedly-fake console shell, Wikipedia lists the entire endeavour as 'Vaporware'; the term given to products that are conceptualised and pushed out the door without a thing to show for themselves. Having some resemblance to what's in the pipeline with next year's Steambox, the Phantom was also supposed to play a range of PC games. However thanks to that spectacularly vague trailer that amounted to a flatulent windbag of a marketing push, some CEO departures and a total bust of a final product to show off, the whole thing was quietly taken out back and never heard from again.
