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    Cage Match returns

    …After a long time. The cage matches were closed due to somebody tampering the results (by voting more than once) [or something like this, I don’t even remember] previously: some of the newest GMC members might not even know what it is. Yay hooray. Sorry for the late post about this… More

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    GMTV – Dead or Alive

    After very little word of an Episode 4 from the guys over at GMTV many began to fear that another GM related publication had bitten the dust. Well many people could just be right after the lost of Co-Owner Brad (who also writes here) and musician Sebastian. Dan announced that Gamemaker TV is on hold […] More

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    Is it time to deprecate mplay?

    NPT thinks so. He has decent arguments: it uses a deprecated part of the DirectX API — and not even the newest version of it. Read his full post. He also suggests YYG to make 39DLL an official extension. What do you think? (essential request for comments: check.) More

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    Sandy’s New Blog

    CEO of YoYo Games Ltd Sandy Duncan has a new blog, Games Nostradamus, in which he gives his thoughts about the future of the Video Game Industry. Sandy has set up the blog in order to provide a “forum to air thought provoking ideas about the long term trends and the future of this $25B […] More

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    GMA 2 Million

    The free Game Maker Affiliation Service banner exchange has now delivered over 2,000,000 button impressions. I will take this opportunity to release some data collected via the system. The country, browser and OS share of all pageviews delivered by GMA can been seen in GMA 2M stats.xls This is one of the largest collections of […] More

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    Game Maker makes top 50 freeware games ever

    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 […] More

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    Which way to go?

    The rise of GameMaker Tech, launch of Game Maker Magazine and apparent demise of MarkUp has put me in an awkward position. Which magazine do I contribute to? Previously MarkUp has been my magazine of choice, but I haven’t really been happy with what has been going on their for the last couple of months. […] More

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    GameMakerBlog + 1 year

    It has been about a year since the first post was made on GameMaker Blog on the 19th April 2007. Beats the length of any of my other failed blogging attempts by miles. It has been quite an eventful year, although with a community consisting mainly of teenagers and the controversial emergence of YoYo Games […] More

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    April Magazines

    So far this month we are yet to see any new issues of the major Game Maker magazines. MarkUp has been notably absent as it normally releases to a pretty strict schedule at the start of the month. Whilst GameMaker Tech have been delayed following several days downtime at their forum. Still they plan to […] More

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    Game Maker Central

    It appears GMC member, Camman, has launched a web site entitled Game Maker Central . It is similar to the popular Will Host For Food.  Personally, I found the site much more graphically appealing than Will Host For Food, and even better is that thus far there are no ads (hope it stays that way).  […] More

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    Game Maker on GameTap

    GameTap is running a week-long series devoted to the indie game scene. This is the exact reason why two Game Maker users were interviewed on the website. This was brought to our attention by GMC moderator ‘xot’ in a topic called; Th15 And Cactus Interviewed By Gametap. Sean Chan creator of Battleships Forever: “My message […] More

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