OUYA

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 is a $99 gaming platform/console — based on Continue Reading →

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 launch. The gaming hardware Continue Reading →

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 speech. Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 an interview with Continue Reading →

When GameStop bought Spawn Labs, it was clear that some sort of cloud-based game streaming was on deck, to compete with the likes of Sony’s Gaikai and Onlive (now allied with Ouya). However, the company has just announced that the service will exclude consoles, and work only on tablets, PCs and internet enabled TVs — Continue Reading →

As of Wednesday night, the famed Ouya Kickstarter project has now been fully funded. Actually, it was way past fully funded, as 63,000 backers gave the project $8.5M when the initial goal for the hackable console was only $950K. This includes 46,000 who gave $99 which comes with a promise that they’ll get the console Continue Reading →

Now that the Ouya is all funded and everything, the company has started accepting pre-orders through an actual website, rather than as a reward to Kickstarter contributors. Your hard earned $109 ($119 if you live somewhere foreign) nets you one extremely tiny console, one controller and the promise of a new tomorrow. Shipping costs are Continue Reading →

The Android-powered, Kickstarter-funded $99 console is, apparently, very small. Images released Tuesday morning put context to the pictures of the console and its controller that we’ve seen already. The console is super, super small. Like a baby GameCube. All it needs is a big goofy handle and we’re all set on that comparison. Anyway, the Continue Reading →