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The GameMaker Affiliation Service has now served over 5,000,000 button impressions!
Here are some stats collected through the service on the way to 5 million button impressions. Includes browser/OS usage of people viewing the banners, country reach and total impressions per month.
This data is collected from a large number of GameMaker websites so the information [...]

After my comments earlier this week about the pointlessness of puzzles in GameMaker publications I was pleased to see that comics do have a place in GameMaker magazines.
A funny and topical GameMaker themed comic - hurrah!

Taken from GM Weekly #3

The deadline for entries to YoYo Games’ third competition has passed with 285 games having been entered.
Obviously I haven’t looked at each and every one of these submissions, but here is my pick of some of the best games and most played games that have been submitted.

Karoshi Factory

Jump, push blocks and press buttons to [...]

GameMaker Tech have dropped them, MarkUp have never had them, but the smaller and less established magazines love them - I’m talking about word puzzles and games. The kind of things you would expect to find on the back of newspapers or in a young child’s comic. The crosswords, wordsearches, mazes and spot [...]

The recently announced GMking blog has published a new post today, shedding some light on the ways their staff collaborates via instant messengers and other forms of communication.
The GMking staff is extremely geographically diverse, which makes communication and decision making processes much harder.  Many of our staff have an 8 hour or more time gap [...]

One week after the launch of his first issue, Darren Poole has released the second of his GameMaker Weekly pdf magazine - on time and on schedule.
As well as community news the short newsletter style publication also features a review of puzzle game Elimod + Dagros.
Download GMWeekly issue 2 (left click).

Or - yet another attempt to flog CDs of GameMaker created games.
The team/person behind the project have rather aptly decided to name themselves “Pure Evil Productions” - bound, I’m sure, to inspire confidence in both game makers and game players.
The plan is for 100 GameMaker created games to be sold on a CD, with each [...]

It seems that after months of complaining about the lack of updates, the team at YoYo Games have decided to act to put a stop to it. With three updates in the space of three days, is this a taste of things to come?
20th August :: Competition Deadline Approaching
The deadline for the third YoYo Games [...]