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THE LATEST NEWS FROM FEBRUARY 2003

This machine was set to be launched in December 2003, and the company boldly claimed that it would offer greater performance than the existing consoles on the market. Rather than running proprietary software, the Phantom was to run PC games. The goal seemed to be to remove the complexity of PC gaming, with game installation and patching taking place automatically. “This is a joke… right?” asked the games™ news story on the system, as the magazine felt that the announcement “smells a bit fishy”, and that

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