After recent coverage of the Infinium Labs Phantom gaming system, I’ve been watching for other subscription-based video game products. I didn’t expect to see it from a cable TV company though.
Comcast said that for a separate monthly fee of $14.95, subscribers would have unlimited access to more than 60 PC-based games, from mainstream titles to educational software. New titles will be added each month, the company said.
Also, Comcast recently acquired TechTV and will apparantly keep the gaming shows on the air. The games service will mix content from G4techTV.
The new G4techTV remains focused primarily on games, and Comcast said clips and other features from the channel would be available as part of the new games service, which runs on systems developed by Exent Technologies.
This sounds like good news for gamers on Comcast. I just hope they will carry worthwhile games. With all that bandwidth available, I’d hate for it to be focused on fare worthy of the computer store bargain bin.
1. We still use paper because it has many big advantages over anything else (cost, portability, simplicity, etc).I'd venture only 10% or less of people actually need a physical product when talking about software. What about the whole Napster/File-sharing arena? There's alot of people out there getting music without the physical medium.
Posted at 4:18PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Steve