Last January, a previously unknown company called Infinium Labs announced that they would be designing and manufacturing a new gaming console to compete with the Xbox, the GameCube, and the PlayStation 2, to be called the Phantom. Given how competetive and expensive a market that is to enter, some were unsure if the console itself would ever materialize or be successful.

Recently, however, the company has started opening beta tests for the system, and late last month announced its Advisory Board. Interestingly enough, that board includes a representative from Intel, as well as Andrew Bunnie Huang, the publisher of Hacking the Xbox .

The Phantom itself is supposed to focus heavily on physically securing the box, to the extent that all content is downloaded-- it doesn't even have an optical drive of any kind.