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I was the first person to vote in the latest Cage Match. However I decided not to bother leaving a reply. Just thought I would let you know. The final score was Frozzd by 2DCube………………….73 votes, Robbie Swifthand And The Orb Of Mysteries by scream681…..83 votes.
The match was a close battle between Frozzd by 2DCube and [...]

The winner of YoYo Games’ first, Winter themed, competition “Frozzed” has claimed victory in the second cagematch since its return. 2Dcube’s $1,000 winning game defeated last weeks winner Caveman Craig with 63% of the votes.
A game to silence any detractors of 2-dimensional game play. The comparison to Mario is inevitable, with elements from Paper [...]

RhysAndrews’ Caveman Craig has stormed to victory in the first GMC cage match for a long time.

The game, which was awarded 2nd place in the YoYo Games Ancient Civilization competition, was put up against the winning and third placed entries.
Caveman Craig showed it really was the community’s choice by polling over 50% of the 150+ [...]

I came across a preview of the imaginatively titled Monkey Island 5 at the Game Maker Community. The game is being built to demonstrate the AGEGaM (Adventure Game Engine for Game Maker) which was made by its creators.
I was interested in this for two reasons - first because I loved the first two original [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week an invitation appeared in my PM inbox at the GMC asking if I could review “I’m scared!” by JW Productions. I haven’t reviewed many games recently, but figured I would give it a go.

The screenshots looked good. The startup screen, menu and game room looked good. And amazingly for [...]

As part of an feature I have been writing for the 7th issue of the MarkUp game development magazine (out next month) I have been following the progress of a few game maker made games.
One of these games, Immortal Defense was included on the cover DVD of a magazine I read. StudioEres, creator [...]

It’s not often that I come across ‘decent’ games at the GMC. There are a lot of good efforts, but most releases leaving me wanting more - in a bad way. The number of games where the focus has all been on one aspect of the game is high. For example games [...]