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    in Distribution

    Roket-Games launch Commercial Games

    Roket-Games, the site YoYoGames.com should have been, has today added the ability for game developers to easily sell their games. Payments are made via PayPal with Roket-Games taking a small cut for controlling access to the full version.  Submitted games will be moderated before they appear on the site to ensure that they are of sufficient quality […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMLive’s First Game Maker Radio Show (Listen again)

    The ambitious project to run a live online radio show about Game Maker got off to a slightly shaky but very promising start earlier today.  GMLive came on air at 10am EDT playing open source music for an hour before starting their first Game Maker show at 11 am. Host Joshua Pedroza was joined by Producer […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMLive Show Topics

    The team behind GMLive, an online Game Maker radio show, have released details of the topics that will be covered in tomorrows (Saturday 10th) broadcast. When the show is on air you will be able to listen via GMlive.org Show times: UK:  4pm,  Western Europe: 5pm. More

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    in Community Links

    Mid-week Community Links

    GameBuilder.info are holding a “Happy Halloween” themed game making competition with a $150 cash first prize. Entries can be made using any game development tool and can be submitted upto November 3rd. More reaction to YoYo Games’ losses at Game Maker Games (seems a decent place) and at GMClan (Polish, lots of comments). Updates at […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games Ltd records losses of £180,000

    In the year to October 31st 2008 YoYo Games Ltd, who own the exclusive rights to distribute and exploit the Game Maker software, made a loss of over £180,000 (~$285,000 USD). In the previous year to October 31st 2007 a loss of £240,000 (~$380,000 USD) was filed in the company accounts signed off by CEO […] More

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    in GMC, YoYo Games

    Game Maker Community Problems

    The Official Game Maker Community went offline for a couple of hours earlier today and users are still reporting that they are experiencing problems. An explanation provided by Sandy suggests that maintenance of the site had been neglected, “there was a LOT of old backup and other non essential stuff clogging the hard drive.” This is not […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMLive Game Maker Radio to launch next Saturday

    GMLive, an online Game Maker focused radio station that aims to provide a mixture of Game Maker news, music and live talk radio, is to launch next Saturday (October 10th) at 11am Eastern Time (5pm UK). The idea for the station run by Jonathan Martin, GMVision’s Joshua Pedroza and former GMCast host Robin Monks was […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games Forums to Return + YoYo’s Grant Application

    Good news for those who want to discuss the morality of same-sex marriage – the recently closed YoYo Games forums are to return! “As soon as the server is ready (Hopefully by the weekend) we’ll get the YoYo Games forums back up and running better than before.” -Sandy, YYG Glog Sandy has also sent off […] More

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    in GameMaker Development, YoYo Games

    Game Maker 8 Beta Server “completely hacked”

    On Thursday the server distributing the release candidate of Game Maker 8 (gm8.yoyogames.com) and the bug tracker was “completely hacked”. The RC itself was hosted elsewhere so remained available for download to those who knew its exact location.  gm4mac.yoyogames.com which was hosting the fourth beta of Game Maker 7 for Mac is also affected. After […] More

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