SharkJumping

It's nice to see that a European liqudation and a US bankruptcy can't keep perennial Sharkjumping whipping boy (see stories here and here) Gizmondo out of the press.  In a "only could happen in LA" story, disgraced former Gizmondo executive Stefan Eriksson apparently smashed his million-dollar Ferrari Enzo (only 400 made) into a power pole at over 120MPH while allegedly racing another car, and then of course, fled the scene, as any supposed former Swedish Mafia member must be taught to do - more here from LA Times (registration required). 

It's hard to track the Carrington-like cast of characters at Gizmondo, but Erickson was the one who resigned from Gizmondo after is was revealed that he had been convicted on a number of financially-related criminal charges in Sweden - I guess the Ferrari was where he put his $100,000 annual car allowance - see Gamesindustry.net story here. 

Now that Infinium Labs has decided to make keyboards rather than video game consoles, we're running out of humor in the console business.  Maybe we can start a web site speculating which day Sony will actually ship the PS3 - given how wide the range of possible options are, we could probably sell over 500 pixels on it.