OUYA, the company that makes a $99 Android-powered videogame console financed through crowd-funding site Kickstarter, just announced that it has raised $15 million. This cash infusion, however, didn’t come from Kickstarter. Instead, it came in the form of a venture-capital funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Gaming vet Bing Gordon will be joining the company’s board as part of the round. (Read More)

The Ouya console now has over 10,000 registered developers. (Read More)

Ouya reminded everyone in the beginning that the console's software will constantly be evolving and there will never be an ultimate version. The Internet and Ouya fans will now step back and take a deep breath until the retail version ships in May for the official round of reviews. (Read More)

Ouya hits out at negative reviews, urges sites to wait for the real deal - The folks behind the Kickstarter-funded Ouya games console have hit back at critical early reviews. Buying advice from the leading technology site (Read More)

Kickstarter backers of the new Ouya console which raised over $8.5 million via a successfully Kickstarter campaign, are now starting to receive their Ouya console and first reviews are of the Android games console are being published. However it still seems that the Ouya console still has a little way to go before being ready for a retail launch later this year in June. (Read More)

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. (Read More)

If you’ve crowdfunded anything before, chances are you’ve faced the Kickstarter catch-22: When a campaign earns enough hype (and consequently, a ton of backers), there’s inevitably a lengthy wait ahead of you. (Read More)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oculus wows the crowd with demos of its Rift virtual reality platform, Ouya makes headlines by announcing June 4 retail launch of $99, Android-based console. (Read More)

Just as promised, the Kickstarter-funded, Android-based gaming console Ouya has started shipping March 28. Users will be happy to know there are already 104 published games for the console, and all are free to try. The available titles include Final Fantasy III, Beast Boxing Turbo, Stalagflight and more. (Read More)

It’s been almost nine months since Ouya, the little Android game console that could, smashed Kickstarter records. Now the console is ready to make its way into the hands of those who made it such a success. Ouya announced that its Android games console will start shipping out to early Kickstarter backers today. (Read More)

Just a little over seven months from the end of its record-breaking Kickstarter tear, the team behind the Ouya is ready to share the diminutive device with the world, bringing it to the Game Developers Conference just ahead of shipping units to Kickstarter backers. (Read More)

Just over a year after the videogame Double Fine Adventure set records on Kickstarter, talk about the crowdfunding leader is in the air at GDC, the Game Developers Conference being held this week in San Francisco. On the conference’s first day, ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux laid out “real numbers and trends” he had researched for indie game crowdfunding. He hastened to say upfront, though, that when he said “crowdfunding,” he really meant Kickstarter: “It’s so big, it’s basically the thing that’s relevant. … This is where it happens at the moment.” (Read More)

Kickstarter campaigns have been very popular for games since last year when Tim Schafer decided to use the crowdfunding platform to fund his upcoming point-and click adventure game. Kickstarter has announced on its blog that the money pledged to games on Kickstarter has crossed the $100 million milestone. (Read More)

Since crowd-funding website and service Kickstarter launched in 2009, a staggering $108.52 million (£71.45 million) has been pledged to games projects, both video and tabletop. (Read More)

The stampede to fund a Veronica Mars movie is "sort of like a perfect storm," according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. Kicking off the Engadget Expand event in San Francisco over the weekend, Strickler acknowledged that the Veronica Mars movie is the latest sensation to take Kickstarter by storm, following on the heels of crowd-funded projects like the Pebble smartwatch and the Ouya game console. (Read More)

The stampede to fund a Veronica Mars movie is "sort of like a perfect storm," according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. (Read More)

Julie Uhrman, founder of the Ouya game console, tells South by Southwest the challenges--and magnitudes of power--that come with having 63,000 backers. (Read More)

When OUYA launched the enormously successful Kickstarter campaign for its Android-based gaming console, CEO Julie Uhrman said she had “no idea” whether it would succeed. “I was scared shitless,” she said. (Read More)

Have you recently seen how OUYA more than quadrupled their funding on Kickstarter AND THEN got into mainstream retailers? Did you become dreamy-eyed at the thought of national success? You’re not alone. Yet a mere fraction will be lucky enough to find their way to store shelves. And this they must. (Read More)

The Top 5 crowd-funded projects on Kickstarter that have raked in over $1 million in donations. (Read More)

Ouya, the Android-powered gaming console, will start shipping to customers on March 28. Despite the tremendous interest in the device (it raised $8.5 million on Kickstarter), the device still has quite a road ahead of it. Will it be facing off with the Xbox? Will Android fragmentation become a problem? And will people outside the tech world even care about it? (Read More)

What promises to be a year filled with video game hardware will officially start on March 28, when Ouya will ship its Android 4.0-powered home game console to over 60,000 backers who helped the upstart system raise nearly $8.6 million on Kickstarter. The team announced in an update that "parts are in the factory and assembly lines are buzzing." (Read More)

Ouya is set to become a rare case among well-funded Kickstarter projects by actually launching on time. The $100 Android-based game console will start shipping to Kickstarter backers on March 28, just under the wire for the March delivery date that Ouya promised last July. (Read More)

Prepare to be invaded by the very first Android console. (Read More)

OUYA announced this afternoon that its Android-powered game console is shipping to Kickstarter backers starting on March 28th. The company took to its Kickstarter page to announce the news, which says, "Parts are in the factory and assembly lines are buzzing." (Read More)

If you bought an Ouya console from the Kickstarter drive, you will actually get the thing you bought soon. The consoles will begin shipping out on March 28, the company announced today. The retail launch is still set for June. (Read More)

The open-source Android console will head out to tens of thousands of crowdfunders a few months before it lands in stores in June. (Read More)

OUYA, the $99 hack-able Android game console, announced it will ship the console to its Kickstarter backers March 28. (Read More)

OUYA will start shipping to Kickstarter backers on March 28, the firm has announced on Kickstarter. Also announced was that thatgamecompany’s Kellee Santiago has joined as head of developer relations. (Read More)

OUYA, the Android-based game console that raised over $8.6 million in a Kickstarter campaign, has announced that the first consoles will ship to those first backers on March 28th. (Read More)

Ouya raised more than $8 million last year for an Android-based video game console that would sell for $99. Now the company is getting ready to ship the first units to backers of the wildly successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The first Ouya game consoles will ship on March 28th, 2013. (Read More)

$99.99 gaming console Ouya will be shipping to its Kickstarter backers on March 28th, the company has just announced. A full retail launch is still planned for June, but the console will be... (Read More)

The team behind the $99 Ouya video game console have announced new details regarding the device's launch date. The Android-powered system is scheduled to begin shipping to customers who preordered the device from Kickstarter on March 28th with a full launch slated to follow sometime this summer. (Read More)

Get excited!!! OUYAs will begin shipping to Kickstarter backers on March 28. That’s right. Parts are in the factory and assembly lines are buzzing. We’ll gradually ramp up production as we make sure things are working. (Our full launch is still set for June, which is when OUYA will be available in stores!) (Read More)

OUYA -- the $99 Android gaming console that started all kinds of fires on Kickstarter, eventually earning some $8.5 million in pledges -- today announced that consoles will begin shipping to backers on March 28. Production is well under way, the company said, with a full launch scheduled for June, when the console also will be available in stores. (Read More)

Ouya announced today that it will begin shipping its Android-based game console to Kickstarter backers starting March 28. (Read More)

Double Fine raised more than $3 million for Double Fine Adventure in 2012. OUYA, another Kickstarter star, will be the only game console to host the game this year. (Read More)

At the DICE 2013 conference Wednesday, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman revealed that Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter-funded video game Double Fine Adventure will launch on the Android-based console. She added that Ouya will offer the only TV experience for the game, suggesting that Double Fine Adventure (internal codename: Reds) will not come to other home consoles. It will, however, be available for PC, Mac, and Linux, as well as Android and iOS devices. (Read More)

Reds, the adventure game successfully Kickstarted by the independent game studio Double Fine, will appear on the Kickstarted game console Ouya — the only television platform on which the game will appear. Julie Uhrman, Ouya’s CEO, made the announcement at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon. She added that the next game from Paul Bettner, one of the founders of the studio that created Words With Friends, will also appear on Ouya. (Read More)

Tim Schafer throwback Kickstarter-funded game, Double Fine Adventure, is coming to multiple platforms, but only to one console, the CEO of the upcoming Android mini-console said today during a talk at DICE. It's coming to hers, the Ouya. (Read More)

Ouya CEO Julia Uhrman confirmed the Double Fine adventure game code named "Reds" is coming to the new Android platform. (Read More)

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 Amazon, Gamestop, Target and Best Buy when it launches this June. (Read More)

Most Kickstarter projects - if they reach their funding goals - go on to be niche products sold through the maker's own website. But Ouya, the Android-powered games console, will hit major retailers like Target and Best Buy in June. (Read More)

Many hyped-up Kickstarter projects get delayed but Android video game console Ouya is right on schedule. The device is out in March for Kickstarter backers. (Read More)

WINNIPEG, MB -- The times are changing in the video game industry and it appears they are changing fast. If consumers were witness only to the seismic shift from physical to digital products, that would be one thing. Companies like Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have been altering their service platforms for years now to address the increasing demand for downloadable content to either replace or at least reach parity with the up-till-now unquestioned store-bought, hard copy business model. In the past year or so, however, gamers have begun to see changes not only in how they get their video games but also how those games are actually made. (Read More)

Eccentric, unnecessary, and often downright insane, here are the inductees into GamesBeat’s Kickstarter gaming gadget hall of shame. (Read More)

The GameStick, a Kickstarter project we covered at launch that aimed to take what OUYA was trying to build in an Android-powered home gaming console and fit it into a device the size of a flash drive ran into some trouble today. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a notoriously press-shy company. The founders, admirably, prefer the attention go to the projects fundraising on the site and wisely want to avoid the downside of the hype cycle by not encouraging said hype in the first place. But whether Kickstarter welcomed it or not, it was undeniably one of the biggest press stories of last year, playing a central role with two huge trends: The excitement around crowd funding and the resurgence of hardware in Silicon Valley. (Read More)

Kickstarter, the crowdfunding service, had an incredible year in 2012. Over 2.2 million people pledged nearly $320 million to projects across the service last year, the company reported. All told, 18,109 projects were successfully funded. To put that into perspective, $99.3 million was pledged via the site in 2011. (Read More)

While Kickstarter’s hardware projects made headlines in 2012, film and gaming ideas (of both the video and board variety) were the real cash magnets for the crowdfunding site, raising a combined $176 million. (Read More)

What a year Kickstarter had in 2012. Tim Schafer's Double Fine kicked the crowd-funding website into orbit back in March, raising more than $3 million to make an old-school adventure game. (Read More)

Kickstarter saw a lot of action in 2012, and there were a ton of funded projects that ended up being a huge hit, the Pebble smartwatch and the OUYA game console just to name a few. Today, the online start-up service released some crazy statistics and figures of 2012, the main number being almost $320 million in pledges during those 12 months. (Read More)

Kickstarter saw a lot of action in 2012, and there were a ton of funded projects that ended up being a huge hit, the Pebble smartwatch and the OUYA game console just to name a few. Today, the online start-up service released some crazy statistics and figures of 2012, the main number being almost $320 million in pledges during those 12 months. (Read More)

It almost goes without saying that we love crowdfunded projects. If we use Kickstarter's 2012 wrap-up as a bellwether, there's many others out there like us. The number of successful projects shot up 53 percent last year to 18,109, and generated $274 million from pledges to projects that met their targets -- that's about 2.7 times more just in successful contributions than was raised in total for 2011, It's not hard to understand why if you've been following along. (Read More)

With 3-D printing, makerspaces, and online forums about how to create hardware, it's never been easier to create a new gadget. And crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have made it easier than ever to fund a new gadget. But selling a new gadget? (Read More)

Develop speaks to company CMO Anthony Johnson and asks why it can't fund the project itself. Last Wednesday Smart TV outfit PlayJam followed in Ouya’s footsteps by taking to crowdfunding website Kickstarter with its own Android console, GameStick. (Read More)

The $99 hackable Android-based gaming console OUYA is fulfilling its orders for Kickstarter backers by sending the first units out to developers. Backers began receiving their O... (Read More)

We reported on GameStick yesterday, and after finding itself on Kickstarter for two days, it has already reached its $100.000 it was attempting to raise in 30 days. This leads us to believe either there are a lot of gamers out there with extra cash to burn, even after the holidays have ravaged most of our wallets, or many people believed in the future portable gaming device. (Read More)

It was only a matter of time before Ouya’s successful Kickstarter campaign sparked other inventors to follow in their footsteps with similar concepts. That time is upon us as a new project known as GameStick aims to offer a competing product with a few refinements that might be worth your hard-earned money. (Read More)

GameStick isn't the first Android-powered low-cost games console to hit Kickstarter. It isn't the first to promise an open environment for developers and competitors alike with freely available manufacturing specs and development kits. It may be the first one to cram the system into a flash-drive-sized HDMI stick which can fit in its own controller. (Read More)

In February 2012, an iPhone dock became the first Kickstarter campaign to raise more than a million dollars. It was an impressive feat, but just one month later, that record was smashed by a gaming project. Tim Schafer and Double Fine's Kickstarter campaign raised $3.3 million, and prompted an explosion in videogame crowdfunding. (Read More)

It’s been a crazy year for independent games development, but there a few stories larger than the influence that so-called “crowdfunding” has had on the industry, mostly via Kickstarter. (Read More)

If 38 Studios was the mainstream game industry story of the year, then crowdfunding site Kickstarter is indisputably the industry watcher's story of the year. (Read More)

Three years in, has Kickstarter lived up to its promise to disrupt entrepreneurship and artistic patronage? We look at some of the top Kickstarter projects from 2012 to find out. (Read More)

There we were, circled around a bachelor party campfire and drunk on keg beer, discussing the viability of using Kickstarter to fund a sex toy startup. (Read More)

Developer versions of the OUYA console were dispatched on Friday to the 1,200 people who had signed up and paid $699 for the privilege. The Kickstarter funded, Android powered new console should be arriving at the doors of developers very soon via airmail. (Read More)

Detour Games has recently started a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their upcoming game RAW. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users. (Read More)

About 1,200 units of the video game console will ship to video game developers worldwide, the company announced (Read More)

It was definitely the year of the game on Kickstarter. (Read More)

Ouya, an open $99 gaming console built off of Android, raised $8.6 million on Kickstarter. And now it's shipping 1,200 consoles to developers, who can begin to create games for the system using Ouya's SDK. (Read More)

OUYA, the Android-based affordable gaming console that inspired a wide range of reaction from tech watchers and gamers alike when it debuted on Kickstarter back in July 2012, today reached an important milestone: shipping product. (Read More)

Remember when games were made and then sold? Some people don't, and it's changing the future of game publishing for the future. Complex.com: The original buyer's guide for men. (Read More)

For many creative folks out there, Kickstarter has become a viable way to get funding for projects that otherwise wouldn't have the chance to see the... (Read More)

When the Ouya was introduced this summer, nobody knew it would not only be well received by the gaming community but also ended its Kickstarter campaign with over $8m in funding. Many gamers believe in the little console that could [...] (Read More)

Peter Molyneux had started a Kickstarter campaign earlier this month. Recently, the campaign was finished with the game—Project Godus—being fully funded. At the time of writing, the game h (Read More)

It's difficult to recall a time before Kickstarter's game industry prominence, but just twelve short months ago the crowdfunding website had a considerably lower profile. (Read More)

With more than a dozen projects raising more than $1 million (some in less than a day), 2012 was a banner year for Kickstarter. Here are GigaOM's favorite campaigns from the worlds of connected devices, open-source technology and publishing. (Read More)

Update : Our regularly revised feature keeps you up to date on the Kickstarter games worth watching, and helps you track projects both before and after they’re funded. New this week is a horror game set underground, a space-based strategy game for iOS, and an open-source console/controller. (Read More)