OUYA and Team Tripleslash today announced that Magnetic By Nature, a fast-paced adventure platforming game that gives players power over magnetism to traverse a machine-age landscape, is coming exclusively to OUYA first. The game is a total redesign of Magnetic By Nature: Awakening, a proof-of-concept demo for Xbox Live Arcade launched in 2013, and will be available on OUYA in early May.

Magnetic By Nature explores platforming without platforms, putting players in the role of the last remaining robot exploring the ruins of an advanced civilization. Using the power of magnetic attraction and repulsion, players must manipulate magnets – and themselves – through wickedly difficult puzzles. Success relies on carefully balancing pushing and pulling on the level itself - go too far in one direction, and you’ll meet a nasty end. With a striking art-deco style, atmospheric sound design, and more than 100 levels of magnetic mayhem to navigate, Magnetic By Nature is an engrossing single-player experience that platformer fans will love.

Ouya's free-to-try component, which allows users to play games on the console without first paying, will be made optional in April, the company's head of developer relations Kellee Santiago said at the Game Developers Conference today.

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Mad Catz Interactive and OUYA announced today a content agreement to bring OUYA to the Mad Catz M.O.J.O. Micro-Console for Android. In addition, the price of M.O.J.O. will be reduced to an MSRP of $199.99 in the United States with similar price adjustments taking place in all major territories.

Announced earlier this week, the OUYA Everywhere initiative aims to bring OUYA to a wide variety of devices, with the M.O.J.O. Micro-Console being the first. OUYA on M.O.J.O. is expected to debut later this spring with all existing and upcoming OUYA content available on the Mad Catz Micro-Console.

"Up until now, the game console experience has been locked inside a box,” said Julie Uhrman, CEO and founder of OUYA. “Together with the hardware veterans at Mad Catz, we end that. Today’s announcement signifies the inception of a truly open platform where independent developers can bring their creations to the platforms where gamers actually play: everywhere."

“With more than 680 games and 33,000 developers signed up, OUYA features an impressive catalogue of content from AAA developers and independent publishers, all of which are designed to replicate the core gaming experience, taking advantage of the TV and controller,” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive. “This agreement with OUYA encapsulates our vision of an open software platform powered by M.O.J.O.’s high-performance hardware, and supported by the entire ecosystem of GameSmart™ gaming accessories.  We believe today’s announcements will widen the appeal of M.O.J.O. introducing it to a greater number of passionate gamers.”

For additional information and to order, visit: www.madcatz.com/mojo/

Ouya hasn't been on the market all that long, but those developing games on the Android-powered platform are already weighing in with their experiences. The general consensus is that Ouya isn't generating a ton of revenue for most developers, but that might not be necessarily terrible given the nature of the console.

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Ouya, the Android-powered, crowdfunded indie console, arrives in stores today but shipping snafus mean many backers have yet to receive their consoles, threatening to cast a cloud over a big day for the machine. It could be another two weeks before all backers have their consoles.

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Today is the launch of the long-awaited, Kickstarter funded Ouya console, which will be available across North America and the United Kingdom. Users can now purchase the console in retail, including Amazon, Best Buy, Game and Target for $99.99 (£99.99) while additional controllers will retail for $49.99 (£39.99).

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The Ouya isn't going to make its planned June 4 launch. The diminutive Android console will now launch on June 25. Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman tells Joystiq that the decision was made in order to meet high demand at retail.

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Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman has announced the first details of retail availability for the Android-powered games console. If you missed out on Ouya's successful Kickstarter campaign and wanted to pick one up in stores, you'll be able to do so at Target, Best Buy, and Gamestop, and the console will also be sold through Amazon and the company's own website.

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Ed Fries started his career working for Microsoft, where he worked up to become the head of Microsoft’s Game Division. Now Fries is acting as an advisor on the Kickstarter-funded Ouya project – which aims to put a custom-based Android operating system into a console box. The system is set to release early next year, but we briefly chatted with Fries about his thoughts on the Ouya and how it compares to the release of the original Xbox.

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Just look at the Ouya above, getting picked on by that meaty finger. The Android-powered, Kickstarter-funded $99 console is, apparently, very small. Images released this morning put context to the pictures of the console and its controller that we've seen already.

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Square Enix Japan has revealed plans to launch Final Fantasy III on Ouya. The game will be available for the launch of the Android-based console, which is expected to hit shelves in March 2013, according to a Square Portal translation of the Japanese announcement.

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Kickstarter darling Ouya announced that players will be able to stream games on the Android-based device using an OnLive app. The company also offered the first head-on shot of the controller. It's still a work in progress, but it should give you an idea of the direction they're going for.

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Former Infinity Ward spokesperson Robert Bowling, who left this year to found Robotoki, is already promising a Ouya-only prequel to his next-generation game, Human Element.

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The massively successful Kickstarter campaign for the Ouya prompted its developer to unveil some new details about the console and its contents. Julie Uhrman, founder and CEO of Ouya, posted on an update on their Kickstarter page to announce some of the hardware and software that will be going into their new gaming device.

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Yesterday the OUYA Android-based game console became the most successful Kickstarter campaign of all time. One look at their Kickstarter video pitch, and you can see why people were so willing to "invest". The more I learned about their plan, the more doubt and suspicions I had. I came up with this list of seven reasons why the OUYA is at the very least, a bad idea.

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A new Kickstarter project is making waves, by proposing an open-source, hacker-friendly platform using Android as its backbone. "OUYA" merges the "satisfying" experience of a console with the developer-friendly nature of the Android marketplace. The project is seeking nearly a million dollars in funds, but it's already managed to reach more than half its lofty goal within just a day.

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Leaks are springing, and word is out that a new mystery home video game console called Ouya is in development. This is a real thing. Ouya is a $99 box running on the Android platform, with a focus on free gaming, according to details spotted in a listing on a site for tech start-ups.

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