Wired reports on Gizmondo's high-speed crash-up

I'm halfway through this story and it's completely messed up....his early years could be a movie itself, but i wouldnt want him collecting any money on royalties.

It's really sad that the Gizmondo crashed as terribly as it did. While they did make some absurd business decisions, such as announcing the Gizmondo Widescreen prior to the US release of the Gizmondo, and other executive folleys, at its core it was a really fun machine. Near-final and final versions of Colors, an entirely-camera controlled puzzle game called Agaju, Catapult, Carmageddon, Conflict Vietnam, Alien Hominid, and others have been released, and were surprisingly pretty good.

The launch titles weren't the best by any means, but where they were going with the Gizmondo was really innovative. The gyroscopic functionality provided by the camera was actually very intuitive and accurate for such a small 0.3mp VGA camera. The GPS was fairly responsive as well, and various homebrew efforts have also given the Gizmondo the ability to run raw Windows CE programs and even TomTom. All in all, a great device.

I know Stefan Eriksson, the real Stefan Eriksson.
He owes me a hundred favours.

TJOCK STEFFE ÄGER ER SÅÅ HÅRT!

The principal operators of Gizmondo are yet on another startup scam.

Xero Mobile is a free cellphone service funded by advertising revenue, from what I can see. It's marketed to the college student crowd. $300M in funding. I'm sure most of those funds are going towards Rolex watches, fast cars and loose women, just like during Gizmondo.

http://www.xeromobile.com/

Launching in January 2007. I'll volunteer to have Uwe Boll punch me in the stomach, if it launches then.

Dudes, this is so old. I read this seriously, like two weeks or so ago.

Old, maybe, but this article was a fascinating read, and for those who hadn't come across it, I'm glad you pointed it out. Ironically, I read this yesterday, right before you put up this article.
This seriously could be a movie. And should be, once the guy is dead and no one can get any money for it. It might even make a good book, with a little artistic license. :)

This isn't over.

When can we expect the hard-hitting expose on the ongoing Infinium scam with dirt on the drug OD death of Tim Roberts's brother and co-scammer? Hard-hitting interviews with Bacchus?

#3 LMAO!!!!

Jae Lee's art is wicked, one of my favorite artists . . .

Where's the link to that Flowchart that showed all the players/events? That was hilarious, scary, and an awesome easy way to see the big picture.

This flowchart was posted here on Joystiq b4, but I searched and couldn't find it. Anyone know how to specify an "And" operator for the Joystiq Search?

They should seriously make a novel out of this. It is a very intriguing story, hell, I should research it and write a novel myself, Ill make millions.

As for them making a film I thought the Son of Sam law already prevented them from getting money on it. For those that don't know the infamous Son of Sam killer was going to make a lot of money from movies, books etc about him which outraged the families of his victims as well as many politicians etc. So laws were passed preventing a criminal from profiting on depications of their life or criminal activities.

Dudes, I totally want a Gizmondo now. I will put it beside my Nomad and Virtual boy, in a lovely display case. It will have a little plaque with all the sordid details.