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Supercell's Ilkka Paananen Will Receive Fellowship At Upcoming BAFTA Awards

Supercell's Ilkka Paananen Will Receive Fellowship At Upcoming BAFTA Awards https://ift.tt/E7nNtOF BAFTA has announced that Ilkka Paananen, the co-founder and CEO of Clash of Clans developer Supercell, will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the upcoming BAFTA Game Awards on April 17. This is the highest honor from BAFTA, and it is bestowed upon people who have "driven innovation, creativity, and positive change in the screen arts, including games, over the course of their career." Paananen is getting the Fellowship for his work at Supercell, which he co-founded in 2010. The studio created Clash of Clans, which is one of the most popular mobile games of all time. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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The Ouya Dared To Imagine An Independent Game Console

The Ouya Dared To Imagine An Independent Game Console https://ift.tt/YytBiWR

The Ouya is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, June 25, 2023. Below, we look at its legacy as a system that endeavored to crack into a market with an atypical approach.

Like many failed console projects, the Ouya was both ahead of and behind the times. Released 10 years ago today, the Ouya was an independently developed console, funded, in part, by a massive Kickstarter campaign. Questions, criticisms, and concerns abounded, but there was also excitement at the possibility space such a console would create. What could an independent-focused console and development community create?

The Ouya was a $99 micro-console, built with Android architecture. The pitch was in the low-price point and the fact that every console shipped was also a dev kit. Anyone with some technical knowhow could begin developing games for the platform. The console promised to have accessible developer tools, a library of exclusive indies, and to bridge the mobile and console worlds.

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