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As featured in MarkUp July 2007:
What they say: Select from 6 heads, 8 bodies, and two guns to duel it out between two players. Now with 4 weapons, the old MK9’s and M16, plus the new custom ‘Riotgun’ and a nice little sword!
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Quick Review: In this split-screen two player game you [...]

Arhhhh
Why oh why do people at the GMC come up with such absurd assumptions as this,  that people are purposely ignoring them and are boycotting any topics posted in by this particular member.
Perhaps it is because of this member’s interests which include, as stated in the members profile, “going out on the street smashing windows“.  [...]

On Monday I start a weeks work experience with a local technology company, my job title for the week - “Games Tester”. I don’t really know what to expect, however I have done work experience at another local software company previously. Not sure if I will be confined to sorting CDs, as I [...]

In an poor attempt to emulate GMKing’s ‘leaky pipes‘ promotion technique, as used for announcing the YoYoGames endorsement of MarkUp, you probably haven’t noticed the few subtle hints I have been trying to drop about a Game Maker related project I am planning.
Maybe you have now. Well the domain was avalible and I [...]

It seems that GameMakerBlog should be renaming MarkUpBlog, following the two previous posts about the magazine I will again mention it.
In particular I am going to be looking at the results so far from my graphical ad for the Game Maker Affiliation Service. An ad is offered by MarkUp to people who contribute content [...]

Ahoy there!
After a couple of days delay the fifth issue of MarkUp, the only GameMaker magazine to be endorsed by YoYoGames, has been released.
No doubt you’ll have already seen it on the GMC, Grego’s blog or elsewhere so I won’t copy and paste the contents list as a space-filler.
You should read it - this time [...]

A print version of the MarkUp Game Maker magazine.

Above: Cover
Below: Double page spread, page 17 (on the right) featuring my review of Forted.

Oh alright, not really. It didn’t come through my door, but it does exist.
A source tells me that GMKing are, or were, investigating producing a printed version of MarkUp.
My [...]

The GMC help someone who provides no logical explanation as to why they want to use version Game Maker 6.1 instead of the latest version 7 on Vista. They wouldn’t happen to be using a cracked version of the software would they,….?
It’s $20 people, that’s not much. If you want the pro version [...]