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The Ouya is an upcoming video game console built upon open-source technology running on the Android mobile operating system. Julie Uhrman, a game industry veteran, founded the project. She brought in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on the design of the project, and Muffi Ghadiali as product manager to put together the engineering team for the hardware and application framework software. The console is slated for release in March 2013.


Ouya was announced on July 3, 2012 as a new home video game console, made by a team of experts[citation needed], and led by the CEO of Boxer8, Julie Uhrman. On July 10, Ouya started a Kickstarter campaign to gauge how many people were interested in the project. Boxer8 confirmed having a working prototype with in-progress software and user interface. Boxer8 is expected to provide their own Ouya store for apps and games. The prototype runs on Android 4.0. It featured many high-end specs, and a price tag of $99 ($95 for 1000 "early birds" to the Kickstarter campaign). The Kickstarter fundraising goal was raised within 8 hours (and continues to increase as more models are made available at various funding levels). According to Kickstarter, in reaching its goal, Ouya holds the record for best first day performance of any project hosted to date. Within the first 24 hours the project attracted one backer every 5.59 seconds. Ouya became the eighth project in Kickstarter history to raise more than a million dollars, and then became the most quickly funded project on Kickstarter to reach one million dollars.
The Ouya Kickstarter page featured an introduction video, which explained various aspects of the console, showcased the process of designing of the 3" touchpad-sporting controller, and gave viewers a glimpse of the motherboard. It also presented the first looks of the console's game store, showing several games from indie developers who had supported and shown interest in Ouya. Many developers had shown interest as far back as seven months prior to the Ouya's announcement. Potential games on the new platform include Minecraft, Canabalt, and Triple Town.
On July 19, 2012, Robert Bowling, former Creative Strategist at Infinity Ward, announced in a blog post and through an update on the Ouya Kickstarter page that his newly formed studio Robotoki would be the first developer to commit to creating a game exclusively for the Ouya. The game will be an episodic prequel to Robotoki's Human Element, a post-zombie-apocalyptic game scheduled for release in 2015.


Specifications:
Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core ARM processor
1 GB RAM
8 GB of internal flash storage
HDMI connection to the TV, with support for up to 1080p HD
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth LE 4.0
Ethernet port
One USB 2.0
Wireless controller sporting two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button, and 3"[citation needed] touchpad
Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"

Features:
The Ouya will feature an exclusive Ouya store for applications and games designed specifically for the Ouya system. Out of the box, Ouya will include the Twitch.TV application. The physical dimensions of the console are expected to be around the size of a Rubik's cube. It is expected to run on a modified version of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich", and will be hardware moddable (with "well-documented test points") and rootable (developer models ordered during the Kickstarter campaign for $699 or $1,337 will come pre-rooted). Rooting the console will not void the warranty. The console's design will allow it to be easily opened up, requiring only a standard screwdriver. All systems can be used as development kits, allowing any Ouya owner and gamer to also be a developer, without the need for licensing fees. All games will be required to have some kind of free-to-play form.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

Remember ACTA, PIPA and so on? Do you remember Megaupload? Well www.kim.com  Is created by one of the owners of Megaupload! Just check it out!
Also watch the music video! It is really good!

On 9th July some estonians with latvians and lithuanians from portals: skillz.lv, ltgaming.lt and itbaltics.com visited ESL headquarters in Germany to make a contract to develope eSports in Estonia and to take gaming in Estonia to a new level.

Before the main story we need your help. To arrange big tournaments in Estonia the ESL Estonia Facebook pages needs likes! It is to show the owners of ESL that we have a gamers base who want to develope eSports. All this attracts sponsors and therefore ESL Estonia will be able to make more torunaments with better prizes! It is not about CS 1.6 but also League of Legends and Starcraft!
So go here: http://www.facebook.com/esleesti Every Like counts! Also you will get information about eSports in Estonia!

At the moment strategys are being developed to make ESL Pro and Amateur leagues just like everywhere else where ESL allready works. Also if gamers show up activity then our best players will have slots on the biggest events in the world.

At the moment it is important that we show up activity so the investors will see that it is good to invest here and that we want to develope!

On upcoming weeks some tournaments have been planned with some smaller prizes. To get bigger prizes we need to show up activity! Just like mentioned before.

It all depends on us! Show up activity! Like the Facebook page! And big tournaments will come to you!

Source: http://gaming.ee/eestlased-on-saanud-hakkama-suure-asjaga-esl-estonia/

Mass Effect 3: Earth is an upcoming DLC pack for Mass Effect 3. It will be released on July 17, 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC worldwide. For Playstation 3, it will be released on July 17, 2012 in North America, and on July 18, 2012 in Europe. The Earth pack will be available at no additional cost.


Whats in it?
Three maps:
Firebase Rio
Firebase Vancouver
Firebase London

Six multiplayer characters:
Destroyer Soldier
Paladin Sentinel
Demolisher Engineer
Slayer Vanguard
Shadow Infiltrator
Fury Adept

Three weapons:
Piranha Assault Shotgun
Acolyte Pistol
Typhoon Assault Rifle

Twelve weapon upgrades
Eleven gear upgrades

One match objective:
Teams must protect and escort a targeted agent to a designated extraction zone. This objective randomly occurs during waves 3, 6, and 10.

One new difficulty setting:
Platinum


Source: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3:_Earth