Black Hawk Reviews - Online Games

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Black Hawk Reviews - Online Games
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• Ouya, a USD 99 TV game console project using
  Android 4.0 has made a stunning debut on the
  crowdfunding website Kickstarter hitting a
  million dollar mark after just 8 hours.
• The game console is slated for a March 2013
  release and the team behind it promise that it
  will offer a flexible and open gaming environment
  that the market wants, which will bring back the
  good old days of console-TV gaming. As of now,
  the sleek silver and black cube along with its
  equally cool controller are just on their
  prototype stage.
• Ouya founder Julie Uhrman said, Its ironic,
  all the growth in gaming is moving to mobile
  platforms, were seeing a lot of AAA developers
  leaving their console shops to go to mobile, yet
  three out of every four dollars is still spent in
  the living room, a majority of gaming time is
  still spent on the TV, and if you survey any
  gamer theyll tell you their No. 1 platform is
  the TV.

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• Ouya is now the fastest project in Kickstarter
  to reach the million dollar threshold in just 8
  hours of going live. The team has initially hoped
  for USD 950,000 pledges in one month for the
  consoles to be produced. Support for the project
  has been huge that as of the time of this
  writing, barely 3 days of being online, the
  amount of pledges reached USD 4 million already.
• We never anticipated that it would blow up like
  this, said the Ouya founder to Black Hawk
  Reviews Online Games.
• Hardware specs for the Ouya console include 8Gb
  of storage, 1Gb of RAM and NVIDIA Tegra 3
  processor which could churn out decent 3D display
  at 1080 pixels. They dont sound impressive and
  particularly powerful when compared to PS3 or
  Xbox but its a pretty good bargain considering
  the price tag.
• And although it runs on Android, it should not
  be expected to be have complete touch-based
  interface. Ouya will have standard wireless
  controller that includes 8 action buttons, a
  D-pad, 2 analog sticks and a touchpad for
  gesture-based controls.

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• The most appealing thing is that developers
  could make games for Ouya minus any publishing,
  retail or licensing fees that usually come with
  creating a game. Thats because its OS is fully
  rootable and every console will come with a free
  SDK pre-loaded on it. In fact, Ouya even welcomes
  hackers to tinker with the system something
  that could also backfire to other consumers who
  might become targets of fraud.
• The only condition they require is for
  developers to have some of the gameplay for free.
• Our only requirement is that the gamer have the
  opportunity to play some aspect of it for free.
  We dont like the idea that you pay 60 for a
  game and feel cheated. We want anybody to have
  the opportunity to try the game, Uhrman said.
• Still, Uhrman is of the opinion that major game
  publishers might also come on board because their
  console could give them easy access to an open
  digital distribution environment all without
  reducing their games values.
• The console will also reportedly support
  game-focused video streaming service, Twitch.tv.