Google and a new company involving former people at IGN, Microsoft's Xbox division, and a few others are currently rumored to be working on a new console called Ouya.
The console is rumored to cost $99 and would be Android-based in design. Also rumored is the games will be free to play while the console itself can be legally "hacked" in a sense of every console coming with its own dev kit. Consumers are being encouraged to develop and publish their own games for the service.
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Open, accessible game console for the biggest market in games: TV.
Any developer can publish games, just like mobile or social games today (but like no other console game platform). Orders of magnitude less expensive to develop.
Inexpensive enough for every consumer to buy, $99, and all the games are free to play. Every console is a dev kit; build peripherals, root the system — built to be hacked.
Designed by Yves Behar and fuseproject, creators of Jambox. Built with Android as embedded OS.
The founder and CEO of the company putting together the Ouya is Julie Uhrman (previously of IGN), and supposedly on board already are names like Yves Behar (One Laptop Per Child designer), Ed Fries (co-founder of the Xbox project at Microsoft), Amol Sarva (Peek), and Peter Pham (Color, Photobucket).
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Daily Recap:
1) Halo 2 rumored to potentially get the "Anniversary" treatment but no potential details nor will 343 Studios even consider working on the project until well after Halo 4 is released.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...iversary-works
2) According to leaked documents sent by Sony to the FTC, a new PS3 model might be on its way soon as part of rumored "Super Slim" (PS3 4000 series) with a rumored debut expected during this year's Gamescom.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-in-the-works/
3) Activision is currently having a 50% sale on all DLC packs for The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3 which will last until July 9 and some of the proceeds going towards the Call of Duty Endowment charity.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ow-half-price/