I can see the Pentagon briefing now: "Clearly, the only obvious answer is to destroy the internet. Men, you have your orders! America...America...God shed his grace on thee..."

Actually, speaking from my own experience, I can tell you that a lot of gamers at that time had simply abandoned their consoles for Commodore 64's. You could even use the same joystick (beat the hell out of that sorry-ass 5200 controller). Atari had counted on 2600 fans to move on to the 5200. But for the same price, you could just buy a Commodore. And games were a helluva lot cheaper on the Commodore, since it was so easy to pirate them.

That's what happens when you give your employees one day a week to just work on crazy shit. ;-)

Well, I think that's a semantic difference, since either way you're separating console games out from general apps. But the point is that the Ouya has no reason to support the Play Store at this time, since it's incompatible with most of the apps there.

Ouya already has a bunch of emulators. BYOR, though.

Of course it doesn't use the Play Store. It's not meant as a general-purpose Android platform (and neither would any Google console). It has to have it's own specialized store. You can't very well have a console loading apps that expect a touch screen, accelerometer, etc. Even if Google let their console use the Play Store, they would have to wall it off into it's own area.

Oh man, I just hope Charlie Sheen is in this one too.

Looks like 2014 is shaping up to be the Year of the Consoles. LOTS of consoles.

Because I could swear I just saw one of these in a Best Buy flyer last weekend

I just can't believe that this company doesn't realize that this is a clear violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You would have thought that the Kim Dotcom case would have made it clear to these people that New Zealand is under U.S. jurisdiction.

And what, pray tell, do you propose as an alternative? Should they abandon DRM to stick it to the man--immediately losing 99% of all their content? Yeah, now all that's on Netflix streaming are a handful of no-name indies, but they're all DRM free! We win!!!

And you obviously haven't seen just about any interview she's done in the last 15 years, or her appearance on just about any award show.

Even reading the article, I'm still not clear on wtf the "Metropolitan Police" referred to are. Is that the London police? Sydney? Some other city?

She's also kind of nuts these days. Not completely Sean-Young-level-batshit-crazy, but definitely not the kind of person you would probably want to have to live with. Pretty common with aging actresses, unfortunately. There is nothing more unstable than a narcissistic actress going through fame withdrawls and hearing the word "No" for the first time in years.