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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 [...]

Another new Game Maker Magazine has been launched. Yep that’s its name “Game Maker Magazine”. (gmc link)
Whilst GameMakerTech have to hold a caption competition to come up with a snappy slogan Game Maker Magazine has one from the start: “The Information you need to know, today“. Almost as good as the [...]

January is quite an interesting time of the year to look at the magazines. Both because of the possibility of the magazines introducing new features and changes, and because over the Christmas period there could have been either a torrent or lack of submissions depending on the particular contributers.

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The past few days have seen both Game Maker magazines releasing their latest issues, one considerably more seasonal than the other.
MarkUp have switched to a two column layout, which I think is a big improvement over the previously favoured three-column option. But that isn’t the only presentational [...]

Last month for the first time I believe that the GameMakerTech magazine outshone its generally more respected rival publication MarkUp.
The quality of the content in GMT has been improving issue by issue at a steady rate but it still lacks a regular release date. That said the November Issue of MarkUp was released behind [...]

Oh yes, you read that right.
“Gnazine, A Game Development Magazine” which according to its creator is “no where as good as gm-tech or gmking, however it does have some themes to it”.
The first article of the first (and I am 90% certain only) issue is…. something about the film Beowulf, which not related to [...]

Not another GameMakerTech versus MarkUp post – oh yes.
Being the controversial guy that I am I can’t leave it alone, at least not this time when I look at the differing attitudes that the magazines have with their contributors.
Two magazines, tens of thousands of GameMaker users you would have thought those that had managed to [...]

I noticed a few days back that one of the increasingly-at-each-others-throats magazines dedicated to GameMaker was billing itself as “A quality read” following the creation of a new WordPress site which looks suspiciously similar to the earlier website redesign of their rival.
Regardless of quality or otherwise, I know that the readership of this blog tend [...]