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After very little word of an Episode 4 from the guys over at GMTV many began to fear that another GM related publication had bitten the dust. Well many people could just be right after the lost of Co-Owner Brad (who also writes here) and musician Sebastian.
Dan announced that Gamemaker TV is on hold and [...]

NPT thinks so. He has decent arguments: it uses a deprecated part of the DirectX API — and not even the newest version of it.
Read his full post. He also suggests YYG to make 39DLL an official extension. What do you think? (essential request for comments: check.)

…But this time you decide the theme. Smart move from YYG, or not? You decide. 
(Are they lazy or not?)

CEO of YoYo Games Ltd Sandy Duncan has a new blog, Games Nostradamus, in which he gives his thoughts about the future of the Video Game Industry.
Sandy has set up the blog in order to provide a “forum to air thought provoking ideas about the long term trends and the future of this $25B [video [...]

The free Game Maker Affiliation Service banner exchange has now delivered over 2,000,000 button impressions.
I will take this opportunity to release some data collected via the system. The country, browser and OS share of all pageviews delivered by GMA can been seen in GMA 2M stats.xls
This is one of the largest collections of publicly [...]

5 Game Maker games make the list. A British magazine, "PCZone" has listed the "top 50 freeware games ever", with 5 GM-made games in it, on the following positions:

35: Flywrench by messhof
33: Clean Asia by cactus
19: Deathworm by JTR
17: Frozzd by 2DCube
10: Seiklus by tapeworm

Congratulations to all the makers of these games. Nethack’s on place [...]

The rise of GameMaker Tech, launch of Game Maker Magazine and apparent demise of MarkUp has put me in an awkward position. Which magazine do I contribute to?
Previously MarkUp has been my magazine of choice, but I haven’t really been happy with what has been going on their for the last couple of months. I’m [...]

It has been about a year since the first post was made on GameMaker Blog on the 19th April 2007. Beats the length of any of my other failed blogging attempts by miles.
It has been quite an eventful year, although with a community consisting mainly of teenagers and the controversial emergence of YoYo Games [...]