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Yesterday GameMakerBlog reached 6 months online. 6 months in which I have spouted my views and opinion about YoYoGames, GameMaker and more often than not its community of users. 6 months in which GameMakerBlog has gone from nothing to slightly more than nothing. There have been over 150 posts, over 750 comments, and lots of [...]

Reverting back to monthly publication didn’t go well for GameMakerTech.
Anyway, issue 8 is finally here now.

GMTV dead?
Despite all the delays along the way it looks like the first real episode will soon be available to watch. Several months late with lots of missed deadlines it is hardly likely to take the Game Maker world by storm but it’s nice to see that Danny has stuck at his idea despite [...]

….Decide what host to use already, or how about getting a domain or paid hosting?
GMTV still hasn’t released the “episode one”. Instead we’ve seen some weekend extras that have done a poor job at explaining things properly and were mostly useless tips.
The new website uses CuteNews. Horrible. I mean, if they’d use it for their [...]

Normally I would moan about people who have problems with their site and don’t do anything to rectify it quickly, however I have a confession.
For around 12 hours GameMakerBlog was displaying a message telling people the site was offline, and would be back soon with some changes. This was an error. The site [...]

Game Maker Awards 2007.
Marred in controversy and with over 800 posts the GMC topic has once again come to the top of the community section. Almost a month after the results were released the winners and runners up in each of the categories can finally add “lame siggy images” showing off their popularity amongst [...]

The GM race have announced that the top 20 games in their competition will now earn their creators a prize - a free copy of the game Akuchizoku. The five finalist will each receive a 1GB USB memory stick and the winner receives a domain name, hosting and 2 free games as well. [...]

Tell your dog, friends, family, cat… everybody you know!
The race has begun.
so cliche