With less than 24 hours left for backing the OUYA console project at Kickstarter, Fuseproject managed to get over 7.6 million of funding from over 57k of backers and has now got the XMBC to join in the project and bring its neat media player to console.
In case you somehow managed to miss it, the XMBC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and hub for digital media available for several different platforms and it will be available on the OUYA console at launch. To ensure perfect compatibility, Fuseproject will provide an early prototype to XMBC team.
In addition to XMBC, Fuseproject also partnered up with TuneIn, a free music, sports and news free service with over 70k stations and two million on-demand programs.
With less than 24 hours for pledging at Kickstarter, Fuseproject also release a couple of new pictures of the actual console and the controller.
You can check out the original post over at
Fuseproject's Kickstarter page.
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Ouya's Android-based, hackable game console now official: we chat with designer Yves Behar (update: funded)
By Jon Fingas 
posted Jul 10th 2012 7:38AM
A handful of details briefly slipped out about the project earlier, but now it's here: the Ouya, an attempt not just to delve into the cutthroat world of TV game consoles but to try and shift the goal posts. At its heart, the design sounds more like a smartphone than a gaming rig with a quad-core Tegra 3 and 8GB of storage running Android 4.0. The upscale, RF wireless gamepad's standout is a built-in trackpad for playing mobile games alongside the familiar sticks and buttons -- clever, though not entirely new. But with completely open hardware and software, an emphasis on free-to-play gaming and an all-important $99 price, the system is a gamble by a handful of game industry luminaries that at least a subset of players are frustrated with the status quo enough to want a real break. Read on for the full details, including a Kickstarter project as well as added details from our chat with Ouya (and Jambox) designer Yves Behar.
