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Ouya Raises $15 Million Led by Kleiner Perkins

Kickstarter darling raised over $8 Million crowdfunding, now they are raising more funds in a new funding round lead by Venture Capital legend Kleiner Perkins including the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners Video game startup OUYA today announced $15 million in new… Read More

Early Growth Financial Services Targets Successfully Crowdfunded Companies

Early Growth Financial Services, (EGFS), an accounting and financial services firm that specializes in providing outsourced support to early-stage companies, is announcing that they have recently added to their growing client list such niche crowdfunding companies as Indiegogo and successfully crowdfunded companies such as OUYA…. Read More

Ouya Now Boasts 10,000 Developers

The one hundred dollar Android console now has more than 10,000 developers working on games worldwide. It can be easy to be a bit skeptical of Ouya. While it impressed many when its Kickstarter campaign raised nearly 9 million dollars, it hasn’t been all sunshine and flowers… Read More

Ouya’s Lesson for Kickstarter Backers: You’re Buying the Beta

The first reviews of Ouya’s $100 game console are in, and they’re pretty ugly. Here’s David Pierce at The Verge: For $99, everyone who backed Ouya’s Kickstarter has unwittingly signed up to beta-test a game console. Alpha-test, even: this is a product with some good ideas… Read More

Ouya launch titles list released, over 100 games and apps you might have heard of

Initial Ouya shipments are being sent out to Kickstarter backers as we speak, so it makes sense that an official list of launch titles available on the platform has now been made available. With over 100 games and apps, including Final Fantasy III and Twitch.tv, there’s likely something for everyone on the $99… Read More

Ouya Console Set to Ship June 4th, Priced at $99.99

Crowdfunded game console Ouya has revealed their pricing and ship date on their site.  The price is set at $99.99 with an additional controller priced at $49.99.  Along with selling their product directly, several national retailers have signed up to push the product.  Ouya raised… Read More

Crowdfunding Star Ouya’s keynote conversation polarizes SXSW

The annual SXSWconference here prides itself on being a place for “disruption,” but the only real disruption during a fairly pedestrian conversation between the founder of crowdfunded Ouya and the editor-in-chief of The Verge today were angry tweets followed by empty seats. Ouya founder Julie… Read More

5 Reasons Why Equity-Based Crowdfunding Under the JOBS Act Won’t Work

There’s so much hype surrounding crowdfunding and for good reason. Stories like the one of Ouya, a game console developer that raised $950,000 in just 8 hours on Kickstarter capture our imaginations. In 2012 alone, over 2 million people pledged approximately $319 million on Kickstarter while global crowdfunding is predicted to grow to… Read More

Meet the nGees, another crowdfunded contender for the Android home console crown

With the Ouya on its way to market – and the GameStick not far behind – you might think that the itty-bitty Android console market has been taken care of for the foreseeable future. Well, according to the creator of nGees, the latest ‘droid-based box to hit the crowdfunding… Read More

From Kickstarter to Target: Indie Ouya Gets Mainstream Retail Partners

Remember the humble Ouya game console? Maybe it was never that humble, but considering its indie roots, the Kickstarted experiment in Android-powered gaming just scored some surprisingly huge distribution partnerships for its release later this year. Founder and CEO Julie Uhrman tells The Wall Street Journal that the console will be available through… Read More

OUYA Android Games console changes Controller after Developers feedback

There has been a lot of positive talk about the Forthcoming OUYA Android based gaming system that originally hit the headlines thanks to a massive Kickstarter campaign that saw the company secure over  $8.6 million in funding from the crowd funding back in August of 2012, but… Read More

Ouya CEO Says Momentum Behind Its ‘People’s Game Console’ Keeps Growing

Last August, when Ouya raised $8.6 million via crowdfunding on Kickstarter to create an open video game console that plays Android-based games, seems like eons ago. Since that time, chief executive Julie Uhrman has been running like crazy to keep up the pace to launch the “people’s box” as scheduled… Read More

CES 2013: New players prepare to shake up video gaming

Power-up! PC gaming giant Valve confirms plans to make its own “Steam Box” console, and invests in hardware-maker Xi3. Special attack! The boss of Ouya, the crowdfunded Android console, meets games developers and accessory partners in Las Vegas just weeks before revealing her device’s launch… Read More

OUYA rival is latest Kickstarter craze

An Android-based micro-console has become the newest sensation on crowd-funding site Kickstarter. The system, called GameStick, has reached its $100,000 Kickstarter target in a single day. At the time of going to press, the crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed $135,000. California based PlayJam, which is building… Read More

Insert Coin: 2012’s top 10 crowdfunded projects

This trip around the sun has been a monumental one for crowdfunding, marked by big projects and astronomical numbers. Take Kickstarter wunderkind OUYA, for example, which raised more than $8.5 million in funding from 63,416 backers. Kickstarter itself has even grown and matured, expanding to the… Read More

How to Make $2 Million in One Day

This little start-up hit the jackpot by playing all the right notes in an online campaign. Here’s how you can, too. Last month, a video game project called Ouya hit the million-dollar mark on Kickstarter in just more than eight hours. It was the biggest single-day crowdfunding total in… Read More

Ouya moves into development phase

In a progress update outlined on the Ouya blog, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said the company’s now in the Engineering Verification Testing phase, and that it expects to have developer kits ready by December. Read More at Computer And Video Games Have a crowdfunding offering… Read More

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