Spending more time buying racehorses and model agencies than fine tuning their business strategy, Gizmondo crashed and burned like Fat Stefan in a Ferrari. But not all the ideas were terrible. In fact, this little prototype video of the unreleased Gizmondo game Catapults is pretty frickin' amazing. The game doesn't look terribly fun, but watch the Gizmondo superimpose three dimensional objects on a real space, appropriately adjusting the angle of their geometry with the angle of the mounted camera.

That is really frickin' amazing; makes me sad we'll never see the portable Halo title that was supposed to be driven by the camera. I always thought they'd just never be able to pull that off, but this prototype footage gives me newfound respect for the Gizmondo tech team. Florian Eckhardt