Stencyl before GameMaker 8?

Back in January this year Stencyl, the currently under-development open-source game development engine, founded a Limited Liability Company to manage their project.
Speaking of the reasons behind the move Stencyl’s webmaster and Lead Web Programmer Stephen said…

Open Source Game Maker

Game Maker consider going Open Source (well maybe one day).
Don’t think this will happen with the incompetence shown by YoYoGame so far, but you never know. A move away from registration based income to advertising revenue would obviously need to happen here but it would, if it happens, help increase the popularity of GameMaker [...]

Is Game Maker News dead? Stencyl Blog.

Scorptek’s Game Maker news blog appears to be dead, or at the very least dieing.
Starting in March 2006 the blog has so far had a total of 161 posts, however the latest post on the 2nd September was the only post for that month. A little over a week ago I followed the instructions on [...]