Ouya got a lot of people excited when it raked in more than $8 million on Kickstarter in 2012. The premise was simple — make a small, inexpensive console running on Android with a game store populated with exclusive content and titles ported from Android. It sounds interesting, but Ouya hasn’t found success and today the company has been bought out by gaming accessory maker Razer. A previously leaked ...
Though it has only been less than two years since their reveal, Valve’s Steam Machines are basically vaporware at this point. The hype was almost overbearing for a while, with gaming hardware companies announcing their own takes on the Steam Machine on a regular basis, and gaming communities passionately discussing whether the initiative would be Valve’s next big thing or next big flop. After ...