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Certain articles from Tom Russell’s Russell’s Quarterly magazine are now available in podcast form.
The podcasts are short - the longest is just 18 minutes - and long articles are broken down into several shows.  Writing on the GMC Russell said of his new distribution method “hopefully this format will allow you to experience [long articles] [...]

Issue 14 of GameMaker Tech, due to be released at the end of the month, will feature an exclusive interview with YoYo Games.
“You know they made YoYoGames.com, and they’re in control of Game Maker development, but do you know what Sandy’s favourite food is. Okay, we won’t be asking that, but in an exclusive interview [...]

The 14th issue of the MarkUp game development magazine has been released. At 54 pages in length it is over twice as long as April’s issue 13 and also sports a brand new red colour scheme.
Download MarkUp 14:

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Inside:

Exclusive 6-page preview of the full version of 65M +1 [...]

After a much criticised third issue released in April InstantArts have returned with their fourth Game Maker Magazine.
Download GMM Issue 4 (pdf, 3.4MB)
Unlike issue 3 in which the considerably improved quality of content was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the new design, issue 4 has a unique layout so hopefully this time around people will [...]

GameMaker Tech’s long anticipated 12th issue has finally been released, and it has a lot of content - 50 pages to be exact.
It has been several months since the new look issue 11 became available, so whilst I welcome the next issue of this high-quality publication I am disappointed that it has been delayed so [...]

After a false start earlier in the month the April issue of GMKing’s gamemaker development magazine, MarkUp, has been released.
You can download issue 13 here (pdf, 1.9MB)

5 Game Maker games make the list. A British magazine, "PCZone" has listed the "top 50 freeware games ever", with 5 GM-made games in it, on the following positions:

35: Flywrench by messhof
33: Clean Asia by cactus
19: Deathworm by JTR
17: Frozzd by 2DCube
10: Seiklus by tapeworm

Congratulations to all the makers of these games. Nethack’s on place [...]

In the past few months we have seen the launch of a couple of new GameMaker magazines. First there was Mattthew_H’s Game Maker Magazine which released its first issue in mid-February and its second in mid-March. At the end of March we then saw the first issue of GMFetch magazine emerge with just [...]