Many of SPOnG's newer and younger readers maybe unfamiliar with the Gizmondo saga. Essentially, it involved a handheld gaming device, some gangsters, a car crash in a Ferrari Enzo (as exclusively reported by SPOnG's own Stefan Walters in 2006), jail time and then Phoenix-like ashes rising.

Well, as we also reported earlier this year, with the release of Gizmondo main man (and gangster) Stefan Eriksson from the California Mens Colony in San Luis Obispo earlier this year, the company has raised its head again.

Back then there was talk on the new Gizmondo site of "open source environment, Gizmondo Live Marketplace, Exciting Psychic Worlds, Create your own games, 'We WILL democratise gaming'.

Today news comes from the Nordic Link that Rich Jenkins, CEO of a company called Media Power has apparently done a deal with a Chinese manufacturer to produce the handheld in time for this Christmas.

Hans Sandberg at the Nordic Link writes, " I asked for physical proof, whereupon he opened a small storage room with combination lock, only to return like another Santa Claus with a big hard package, stacked with neatly bubblewrapped Gizmondos." But even Sandberg is cynical as to the whether the unit he was shown was just an old one, repackaged.

One element of the saga that was definitely missing from the tale was any mention of Stefan Eriksson himself.

^{Sources:
Techradar
MCV
The Nordic Link}