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Ouya gives presents for its first birthday: seven games on sale now
On March 28, 2013, Ouya began shipping its Android-powered microconsole of the same name to backers of its Kickstarter campaign. One year later, Ouya is thanking those backers and all who have chosen to support the company with a seven-day sale on seven games from seven of its initial developers. The sale includes: The Ball (Tripwire Interactive): 60 percent off Beast Boxing Turbo (Goodhustle Studios, Inc.): 50 percent off Deep Dungeons Of Doom (Bossa Studios): 50 percent off DubWars (Helium Interactive LLC): 33 percent off Knightmare Tower (Juicy Beast Studio): 50 percent off The Little Crane That Could (Abraham Stolk): 50 percent off Natural Soccer (Thorsten Schleinzer): 33 percent off The sale will run until April 1; all games can be purchased directly through an Ouya game console. They grow up so fast! [Image: Ouya]
Pier Solar HD, Proven Lands among 75 greenlit games for Steam
Valve accepted 75 more games for distribution on Steam after approval from its community on Steam Greenlight, among which is Pier Solar and the Great Architects HD, Watermelon's remake of the Megadrive RPG. Pier Solar HD, which earned over $230,000 on Kickstarter in December 2012, is joined by a recent crowdfund hopeful, sci-fi sandbox roguelike Proven Lands. In fact, a number of this week's new Steam recruits were once success stories on Kickstarter. Dolphin exam cheating simulator Classroom Aquatic earned over $31,000 earlier this month, Trichotomy's Dog Sled Saga found modest success in May 2013, roguelike Dungeonmans earned over $43,000 in August and MURA Interactive's twin-stick shooter Dubwars received over $34,000 in July. Additionally, Will O'Neill's game about love and depression, Actual Sunlight, was among the group of games added to Steam this week. [Image: Watermelon]
Crowdfund Bookie, July 14 - 20: Megatokyo, Soul Saga, Frontiers
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This week in crowdfunding, the Kickstarter campaigns for Megatokyo, Soul Saga, Frontiers, Dubwars and Banshee ended. Megatokyo, a visual novel game for PC, Mac and Linux based on the popular webcomic of the same name, earned the most money this week ($299,184). Soul Saga, a JRPG inspired by PlayStation-era RPG series like Final Fantasy and Breath of Fire, had the most backers of the group, with 7,167 people funding the project. Ambitious Facebook horror game Banshee boasted the highest average pledge per person, with each funder averaging a $53.81. Take a gander at the results and our fancy charts after the break.
