I've ordered myself one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008PT4GGC/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i05?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Plus a few extras like a case, USB hub, nano USB wi-fi adaptor, etc. Not exactly a gaming rig, but useful for building gadgets and general messing around.
Awesome, I'm sure you remember my story... Pre-Ordered one and several months went by and the order got mixed up. Never got it and was never charged for it. So I still don't have one. I love the idea and I'm sure the Ubuntu ARM distro has come a long way. So hopefully there are some gaming capabilities for light gaming by now
Wine developers are also interested in a Wine port to Android. Meaning running PC games on ARM processors. If that becomes successful then the list will be even bigger.
Probably, but maybe there is a chance... programmers seem to figure out anything once they put their minds to it. I noticed some comments on Open Arena (Rasberri Pi Store) that it would barely run. I know its not made to be a gaming machine, but even Dos games are enough to get few hundred games running.
Project One is Bitcoin mining. I now have one Antminer U1 ASIC plugged in and working on my Windows box. It's averaging 1.97 Gh/s at stock speed. I have another Antminer U1 on the way, plus a USB hub, so I can get both of these mining with the Raspberry Pi.
It's a Uno32 - Arduino-ish, but 32bit MIPS core, rather than an 8bit processor. In this particular case, I'm fuzzing EDID data.
I now have this Raspberry Pi bitcoin mining using bfgminer: http://bfgminer.org/ The ASIC is now hashing at the same rate as it was on my Windows box. But can be left switched on 24/7 because it is silent, and doesn't use much power.
I have had my Pi for a good little while. Neat little gadget. Slow as heck but just dandy for web surfing. It may do a lot more but my skills are limited. I am kind of slobbering over an Odroid.
That Odroid looks very good, quite a bit more powerful. The Pi is ideal for stuff which doesn't need so much processing power. Next thing I will be trying is setting-up some kind of Wikipedia bot.