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Sandy Duncan has written on the YoYo Games blog that the results of YoYo Games’ competition will be announced “NO LATER than 5 pm UK time on Thursday”.
The co-operation themed competition was YoYo’s third and had attracted over 275 entries. The winner will receive $1000, with a second-place prize [...]

YoYo Games announced there 4th competition entitled ‘The YoYo Games: Save The Planet Competition’ which reminds  me of the comic that was featured GM Weekly issue 3.  This competition features the same rules and prizes that were in all the other YoYo competitions (thats a shocker) , or to quote YoYo directly:
“Same prizes, same rules, [...]

The malware which had been inserted into the forum template at YoYo Games’ Game Maker Community via an iframe was finally removed yesterday.
Today GMC administrator Chronic announced that an encoded and harder to spot link to the virus had also been removed.
And for those of you that disagreed with my critisicm of the YoYo Games [...]

YoYo Games decided to mention the release of GameMaker magazines (GameMaker Tech 2 days late).
I must admit I am a little confused following the merger of The YoYo Games and Mark’s blog. The result appears to deliver a strange mix of YYG updates, GameMaker tips and requests to GameMaker users - and now apparently [...]

The deadline for entries to YoYo Games’ third competition has passed with 285 games having been entered.
Obviously I haven’t looked at each and every one of these submissions, but here is my pick of some of the best games and most played games that have been submitted.

Karoshi Factory

Jump, push blocks and press buttons to [...]

A quick look at the 20 most played games on YoYoGames.com reveals a host of totally playable games with decent graphics and sound effects which have obviously had some serious time invested in them.

Some of the most popular games on YoYo Games.com
Have there always been this many high quality GameMaker games and has the creation [...]

After making their Instant Play plugin compatible with version 3 of Firefox I don’t expect YoYo will be pleased to see that there has been a new version of Firefox released - version 3.0.1.

GameMaker Community member Dr. Watz0n has posted an open letter to YoYo Games on his blog.
The letter states his frustrations with the lack of updates provided by YoYo Games and the broken promises that they have made to users of their GameMaker software.