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Ouya’s $99 gaming console available Tuesday

Media | 06/24/2013 8:57 pm EDT

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Ouya Inc. will launch its $99 video game console in Canada, the U.S. and U.K. on Tuesday, the Guardian reported Friday. The Ouya device will be the “first totally open video game console,” according to Ouya's website, and will encourage consumers “to unscrew it and have a look around,” and to develop their own games for the device. Users will be able to try Ouya games for free, and to download purchased games directly onto their device, the site says. The device was initially funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that raised $8.6 million US last summer, the Guardian reported, and was bolstered by $15 million in venture capital funding....