It’s raining updates…

It seems that after months of complaining about the lack of updates, the team at YoYo Games have decided to act to put a stop to it. With three updates in the space of three days, is this a taste of things to come?
20th August :: Competition Deadline Approaching
The deadline for the third YoYo Games [...]

100K plays for Crimelife

Crimelife 2, a 3D Grand Theft Auto clone created by Sakis Rogas, has become the first game on YoYoGames.com to have been played more than 100,000 times.
Crimelife 2, which is also a YoYo Games staff pick, has been played almost twice as many times as the second most popular Game on YoYo - Sascha Swiercy’s [...]

And the winners are…

There was much annoyance at the fact what defines Civilization, there was a total of 260 entries into the competition, the deadline was increased after someone at YYG thought it would be a good idea to try and move the whole website over to a new server - near the end of the contest. But [...]

YoYo Games Competition 3

…But this time you decide the theme. Smart move from YYG, or not? You decide. 
(Are they lazy or not?)

Here come the ads?

The new look YoYo-ized Game Maker Community with ads?

GMArcade.com under attack

The most popular “instant play” style website besides YoYoGames, GMArcade, has been under attack and is once again looking to upgrade their servers.
“First of all, I would like to apologize to you for todays downloading and online play downtime. We had someone continuously download a file over 125,000 times. This is also why the server [...]

What next at the GMC?

Recent days have seen YoYo Games truly communicating with its community for the first time since it came into existence. We’ve had an upgraded forum with a new skin, frank admissions of YoYo’s shortcomings and the re-introduction of post counts.
On top of that I am now frequently seeing Mark Overmars and Sandy Duncan online [...]

Sandy: “our customer support is terrible”

Sandy Duncan CEO of YoYo Games has admitted that their “customer support is terrible” and that “the DRM sucks”.
“If it helps I think some parts of the site suck, I think, at times, that the DRM sucks and I think, always, that our customer support is terrible.I spend most of my time and energy raising [...]