Phantom Entertainment Admits To Accidentally Releasing Joke Press Release
Phantom Entertainment has admitted that the entire Phantom video game console was just a joke accidentally released by their PR team.
"It's been so long since there's been any talk of the Phantom but I think it's time we came clean," said Greg Koler, CEO of Phantom Entertainment. "We tried to play it off like it was something real to save face but enough with the charades."
According to Koler, some of the employees on the PR team were making up fake press releases to amuse themselves. The Phantom video game console release was accidentally sent out when one of the employees left an email address from one of his IGN contacts in the To: line.
"Did you ever do that? I do that a lot sometimes," said Tom Marpling, an employee on the PR team. "I've sent my mom dirty letters that were intended to go to my mistress. It's an unavoidable fact that humans will make mistakes."
According to Marpling, this isn't the first or last time it's happened.
"We've announced so many projects due to mistakes with our PR team. They're clumsy."
One mistake actually resulted in a product getting made.
"The lapboard thing we joked about ended getting made because we had so much press on it," said Koler. "I hated the idea but we had to do something in order to keep getting money from investors. We decided to just put the dumb thing out."
The situation is apparently under control but the company has just announced plans to release a hot dog warmer. Time will tell if this was just another mistake on behalf of the PR team.