GameSpot's Curt Feldman sat down with Infinium Lab's President & CEO, Kevin Bachus, to discuss the latest news re all the new "Phantom Partners"...
Infinium Labs today announced a list of 22 publishers and developers slated to provide games for the Phantom Game Service. The list features some big names, lead by Eidos, Atari, and VU Games. Others committed, according to Infinium, are 21-6 Productions, BraveTree, Chronic Logic, Codemasters, Dreamcatcher Interactive, eGames, Enlight Interactive, Framework Studios, GamerBlitz, Gameware Development, GarageGames, Global Software Publishing, Interplay, Kuma Reality Games, Legacy Interactive, Max Gaming, O-3 Entertainment, Riverdeep, and Skunk Studios.
And here are a few snippets from the interview...
GameSpot: Today's news highlights partners but doesn't discuss any titles. Will you be announcing specific titles shortly?
Kevin Bachus: We're going to make announcements about specific titles just prior to launch, but I can tell you that in most cases we're talking about the entire library of each of the publishers. There are some titles that have been licensed to us that aren't even at retail yet.
GS: What's the biggest challenge when it comes to securing content?
KB: The biggest challenge is that in a lot of cases the publisher's rights haven't been perfected. In a lot of cases, the electronic software distribution rights have been reserved by the developers, so that's one of the reasons why you see us announcing by publisher and developer [instead of title by title].
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