GameMaker Blog

Introducing Nocturnal Engine which looks like being will be the most promising GameMaker “community” style website launch for a long time.
All the usual features you would expect at sites like SnowMoons and GameMakerCentral are there - blogs, profile pages and an upload facility.  There is also a forum and IRC facility and thankfully the design [...]

A new community website for users of Game Maker has launched. GamerGM.com has a file upload facility, forum and reviews section and also includes an interview with SnailFox, creator of the game 65 Million and 1 BC.

Since appearing on the Game Maker scene at the start of 2007 YoYo Games have faced criticism from certain members of the community.
Most of this criticism is about poor customer service and problems with the Digital Rights Management that is used to protect Game Maker 7.

The recently re-designed GMArcade is holding a game-submission contest with a top prize of a domain name and free hosting for a year. To enter you must upload an original game to the site, and use it as your sole hosting service. Second and third place prizes consist of upgraded memberships at the [...]

The size of users personal mail inbox at the GMC has been doubled. Members can now store 100 posts in their account online.
Thankfully this update was placed in the Announcements forum rather than the Community section of the forum to limit the pointless dicussion which normally follows.