The OUYA was one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all-time. A new video game console for your TV, the OUYA is powered by Android and meant to be an open and hackable platform. With the campaign’s backers already getting their consoles and units set to hit store shelves in the near future, what’s next for ...
OUYA to Hit Store Shelves on June 4 for $99
on 3.29.13
Ouya is ready for its close-up. After a remarkably successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over $8 million last June, the startup will release its eponymous Ouya game console to retailers on June 4, it said on Thursday evening. The $99 box aims to disrupt the television gaming market the way that the iPhone upended the ...
OUYA Teams Up With Makerbot for Custom-Printed Consoles
on 3.27.13
OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded indie gaming console, has teamed up with Makerbot to release the 3D design files for the console’s case. With the template and specs for the device revealed, anyone with access to a 3D printer will be able to customize the $99 console. The files, which are packaged as the “OUYA MakerBot 3D ...
OUYA to Launch With NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 Emulation Support
on 3.25.13
The OUYA Android-based gaming console is getting ready for its debut: the stated beginning shipping date for Kickstarter backers is March 28. At launch, it sill isn’t clear exactly how many software titles the console will offer, but a new report suggests that at the very least, early backers will have emulators to play ...
OUYA’s Julie Uhrman Wants One ‘On Every Television’
on 3.12.13
Julie Uhrman, the CEO/Founder of the smash Kickstarter-project-turned-gaming-console known as OUYA, was the third keynote speaker at SXSW Interactive 2013. Interviewed by The Verge’s Joshua Topolsky, the two dove in the intricacies and challenges of crowd funding and creating a new hardware startup. For the uninformed, ...
OUYA Consoles Shipping to Backers on March 28
on 2.28.13
OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console, has already shipped developer consoles, but had yet to specify an exact date when backers could expect their production devices. On Thursday, the company announced that it will be shipping the first OUYA consoles out to backers beginning March 28, ahead of a June retail ...
OUYA Android Console to Get New Version Every Year
on 2.7.13
There will be a new OUYA next year, and the year after that, unlike the traditional game console model, where new hardware ships in five- to seven-year generational increments. "Our strategy is very much similar to the mobile strategy," OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman told us in an interview this afternoon, following her DICE 2013 ...
OUYA’s Launches to Retail in June at Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target
on 2.5.13
The little Android-based gaming console that could is in on track for March as promised for Kickstarter backers, but the public launch in June looks to be an equally splashy affair with retail support from some of the biggest U.S. chains. OUYA announced today to backers that it would be selling the console to the general ...
OUYA Changes Controller’s Design After Dev Feedback
on 1.25.13
The team behind the OUYA Android game console clearly paid a lot of attention to its looks — they nabbed Yves Behar to design the thing, after all — but not every component has passed muster with the masses. Thankfully, after hearing some discontent from early backers and developers, OUYA has taken some crucial feedback ...
Xbox creator: It’s hard for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to ignore the Apple experience
on 11.27.12
Ed Fries, co-creator of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console, believes it is harder for gaming platform makers Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to ignore the gaming and app experience that Apple has created, highlighting the iPhone and iPad maker’s creation of a platform that is easy to develop for and affordable for gamers. In ...
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