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Tom Russell has released the fourth edition of his quarterly game development magazine, subtitled “Boss Battles”.

The pdf is free to download (left click only, 3.1 MB) and contains 90 pages of articles, features and game reviews and even a 13-page short story.

YoYo Games have announced that the rumoured merge between their wiki and GMPedia, a community project by GMking is now official. Earlier, the GMking blog confirmed the merge. All 600 articles from the original GMpedia wiki will be migrated onto the YoYo Games wiki. This also includes articles not related to Game Maker, but computer programming in general.

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Games available via Instant Play on the YoYo Games website can now be decompiled following the release of the second version of a GameMaker decompiler authored by Clam.

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As GameMaker Blog suggested a week ago it appears that YoYo Games are preparing their wiki for a merger with gmpedia.org.

All adverts on the YoYo Games wiki have been removed and its contents have been licensed thorough a Creative Commons License, which fits in with the GMKing ethos.

…we want the new Wiki to become the most complete source of information about designing and developing games with Game Maker. To this end we will be making a number of important changes to the Wiki over the coming weeks.
- Mark Overmars

It will be interesting to see the extent of these ‘important changes’. Importing the gmpedia content would give the wiki 600 new articles, but it sounds like something else might also be on the horizon - hopefully a new design…

Update: Since this article was originally posted, gmking have confirmed that GMPedia will be merging with the YoYo Games wiki.

Google have launched a beta of their in-game advertising solution, dubbed “AdSense for games”.

The program makes it easy to display ads in placements the game creator defines, such as before a game, after a level, or when the game is over. The beta is currently only accepting publishers with high traffic levels.

I am not aware of the requirements needed to use adverts within your games, but the examples so far appear to be flash games.

An example of how the in-game advertising will look can be seen in the video below:

YoYo Games have still not released any further news on the in-game advertising they announced they were considering introducing in February of this year.

The Tutorials and Examples section of the GameMaker Community has been re-opened as GameMaker Blog reported would happen 3 days ago.

A new set of rules and guidelines are in place and all new tutorials or examples added to the forum need to follow a specific template before needing to be approved by a moderator to show in the forum.

About a month after GameGlyph made its promising debut it appears to have been forgotten or abandoned by its creators. However a new service that claims to make selling in-game advertising for GameMaker easy has now come along, RadAd.

RadAd is a project led by Josh Conley which displays a 5 second advert at the start of games using their system, paying developers on a per click basis. If this takes off I see the start of mass GMC click-fraud…

Payments are made via PayPal and all games have to be approved before they can use the system in their games.

The long closed Tutorials and Examples forum at the Game Maker Community is set to re-open soon according to a forum moderator.

New posts in the forum, which previously enabled GameMaker users to post “good, clear, concise and efficient tutorials and well documented examples that can be of great use to other Game Maker users”, were suspended after the forum was closed for a reorganisation in August.

In the past all new topics required moderator approval to ensure that the tutorials provided were of suitable quality.  As of yet there is no word on what changes, if any, will have been made by the time the forum is re-opened.