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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 [...]

Many of you have probably seen people trying to flog off third-rate domain names claiming to have had them appraised and valued at ridiculously humongous sums. DNScoop is actually one of the reasonable sites out their valuing websites based on their Page Rank, number of incoming links and age of domain amongst some other [...]

Today I received two free game development books by courier, “Beginning 3D Game Programming” and “Agile Software Development“.
The books were sent to me as part of my involvement with the MarkUp magazine, where a future issue will contain reviews I have written on them. (I guess I have to read the books [...]

I have just returned from a short break away to find that several new people have begun commenting on GameMakerBlog, welcome all of you.
I have some news to share with you regarding my registration of the Stencyl.org domain name. The inevitable came - I was contacted by Stephen Stencyl’s webmaster and was asked to [...]

Today I registered the Stencyl.org domain name.
For those of you who don’t know Stencyl (official site) is an up-and-coming open-source game development and distribution platform - think of it as an open source, and probably better run version of GameMaker. Quite why the creators of open source software neglected to register the .ORG of [...]

When I was using Game Maker in the 4.3 era few people had domain names for their Game Maker ‘team’ or resources sites. Now at the GMC it seems that almost every other gamemaker site has invested in a top level domain. There is still the high number of freewebs sites, and of [...]