Have YoYo Games improved the quality of GameMaker games?

A quick look at the 20 most played games on YoYoGames.com reveals a host of totally playable games with decent graphics and sound effects which have obviously had some serious time invested in them.

Some of the most popular games on YoYo Games.com
Have there always been this many high quality GameMaker games and has the creation [...]

New look GMTech forum

A few days after introducing a new design on their main website, GMTech have changed their forum skin to a far more professional and clean-looking design.

Issue 13 of the GameMaker Tech magazine is due to be released in early August.

Russell’s Quarterly Podcasts

Certain articles from Tom Russell’s Russell’s Quarterly magazine are now available in podcast form.
The podcasts are short - the longest is just 18 minutes - and long articles are broken down into several shows.  Writing on the GMC Russell said of his new distribution method “hopefully this format will allow you to experience [long articles] [...]

100K plays for Crimelife

Crimelife 2, a 3D Grand Theft Auto clone created by Sakis Rogas, has become the first game on YoYoGames.com to have been played more than 100,000 times.
Crimelife 2, which is also a YoYo Games staff pick, has been played almost twice as many times as the second most popular Game on YoYo - Sascha Swiercy’s [...]

GMTV now part of GMking

Starting today, Game Maker TV (GMTV) will be joining the GMking network of sites and services. The name “GMTV” will be kept, and Dan “Danny” Eggers will continue to act as the Executive Editor of the popular Game Maker video podcast.
As part of the agreement, GMking will provide resources and services to GMTV necessary to [...]

GMTV episode 4: detailed analysis

It’s out. Featuring ~22 minutes of content, I was highly impressed by episode 4 of GMTV. Featuring news, reviews and more, this is the most professional episode to date.
The show features a completely new look (to go with their new website), which is a huge improvement from the previous one. They have ditched their “retro [...]

Gamemaker TV: Episode 4

The long awaited episode 4 of Gamemaker TV has been released, with around 20 minutes of content.
The episode contains the following:

News

A tutorial

Reviews

And something they call ‘Face-Off’ which is like the cage matches on the GMC

Sadly they didn’t get the interview with cactus in.
A detailed review coming soon. What do you think?

GMTech: YoYo Games Exclusive Interview

Issue 14 of GameMaker Tech, due to be released at the end of the month, will feature an exclusive interview with YoYo Games.
“You know they made YoYoGames.com, and they’re in control of Game Maker development, but do you know what Sandy’s favourite food is. Okay, we won’t be asking that, but in an exclusive interview [...]