Infinium Labs ready to haul HardOCP into court on GameSpot (thanks Frans) has word that Infinium Labs, creators of the upcoming Phantom PC game-on-demand console system, is prepared to take legal action against hardware website [H]ardOCP unless what Infinium describes as a defamatory article is removed from the website within the next 10 days:

The potential suit stems from a September 2003 HardOCP article on Infinium and the Phantom, which singled out the company's chairman and CEO, Timothy M. Roberts, for special attention. The article pointed out that several companies on Roberts' resume had gone bankrupt, and it claimed to have firsthand reports that the Infinium offices were a "ghost town" at the time.

In a conference call to analysts and the press, Infinium president and COO Kevin Bachus said the article was "false and defamatory," and it "painted a portrait of a company intent on swindling the public...and that is unacceptable."