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Apple have announced that their Mac App Store will open on January 6th. YoYo Games are not currently selling any desktop games but have said that they would like to do so in future. Following a four day lapse the YoYoGames.com virus scanner appears to be functioning again.  There will be quite a backlog to […] More

Why Game Maker for Mac matters – Uriel Griffin on why creating Game Maker for Mac was a worthwhile step for YoYo Games. Rather than focusing on the IDE Uriel writes about the emergence of Mac as a gaming platform ahead of the launch of the Mac App Store. Mrme picks up on the fact […] More

CharliesGames.com have published an interview with Paul Eres creator of Immortal Defence about his current project, Saturated Dreamers. At the GMC there looks to be an interesting discussion about the general lack of support for Game Maker 7 for Mac about to get underway. Gamification is a new game-development Wiki. Apparently this term refers to […] More

Grabeorama has conducted a quick analysis on the number of plays-per-game at YoYoGames.com Quote Unquote is a new blog covering Indie Game Developers one quote at a time. About a month back I made a post about this site on my personal blog. Changes stemming from this will be introduced soon. More

Banov last week won his Indie Kombat match by default when his competitor, Andrew Brophy, failed to complete his game on time. Vertigo Gaming plan to work on a “slower paced strategy/sim” game which they hope to publish on iPad through YoYo Games in 2011. Writing in the comments on his personal blog Mike Dailly […] More

Today is midway through the 2010 International App Development Conference & AppJam in Dundee. YoYo Games is an industry partner of the event. Mark Overmars is included in The Game Developer 50 published in the November 2010 issue of Game Developer magazine for his previous work on Game Maker.   According to the magazine the […] More

The winner of YoYo Games SkyDiver II review competition has been announced. Member LifeSketcher has a 32GB iPod Touch and a $50 iTunes voucher to look forward to. In the post on the YoYo Games blog Kirsty also promised that news about the next release (‘not Mini Madness‘?) and more information about publishing games will […] More

Two Game Maker games are up against each other in Indie Kombat. Banov and Andrew Brophy will compete in this months version of the competition which describes itself as the ‘ultimate bare knuckle game development arena’. Both Game Makers are working on games which are mash-ups of their opponents’ prior creations. The winner is decided […] More

Frostblade has retired from holding a moderator’s position at the official Game Maker Community. He joins a growing list of forum volunteers who have stepped down from their positions. Packt Publishing appear to be looking to re-start their ill-fated Game Maker Cookbook project. The previous attempt was only half-baked before the author left the kitchen. […] More

Vertigo Gaming have released two ‘combo-packs’ of their commercial games. The Oil Blue, Sandbox of God: Remastered and greenTech+ can be purchased for $19.95 whilst adding ShellBlast and Spirits of Metropolis to the pack takes the price up to $25. Grabeorama’s GMag is now up to its fifth issue. The short fortnightly magazine contains a […] More