Infinium Labs Teams with Sun Microsystems for Game Service

Infinium Labs and Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) announced plans to create a network and infrastructure to stream content for Infinium's flagship Phantom Game Service, direct to the living room.

The Phantom Game service will be built upon a scalable, cost-effective and highly secure solution that harnesses the power of the network, allowing consumers access to a huge library of PC games on-demand.

"The Game Technologies Group's understanding of online gaming, along with the broad-based expertise of the company in delivering content and services over networks, makes Sun an ideal partner for us," said Kevin Bachus, president, Infinium Labs.

Infinium Labs and Sun plan to deploy joint marketing programs that underscore their shared vision for the video game industry.

"Infinium's mission is in line with Sun's goal to leverage the network as a vehicle to make entertainment content, information and services ubiquitous for consumers, and we want to empower the company to make that happen in the video game arena," said Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer at Sun Microsystems.

Sun is providing architecture design and back-end infrastructure as part of the overall solution. Sun's Java technology has been adopted by carriers, handset manufacturers and content companies that want to create and deploy advanced applications and innovative mobile data services.