YoYo Games

Dundee College, along with key project and other industry partners (including YoYo Games), are holding a 3 day International App Development Conference.  The event will run from the 8th to 10th November 2010 in Dundee, Scotland. The Conference: If you are already an app developer, or someone who is looking to get into app development, […] More

Two days ago former Game Maker Community administrator Smarty posted a GMC topic urging anyone who is not confident with their system’s security settings to stay away from yoyogames.com. Over the past few days visitors to the site have reported virus infections on their Windows machines caused by an exploit in the Acrobat PDF reader […] More

YoYo Games are finally on Twitter. You can follow them at @YoYoGameMaker. And if you aren’t yet following Game Maker Blog(!) then you can do that here: @GameMakerBlog Several months back there was a fake YoYo Games twitter account which spouted ridiculous nonsense for a couple of weeks before it was closed down. More

Earlier today YoYo Games announced the launch of the “YoYo Games App Store” from which Game Maker 7 for Mac can be downloaded. However “App Store” has been registered as a trademark by Apple in the EU.  In the United States the mark’s current status is listed as “An opposition is now pending at the […] More

In the year to October 31st 2009 YoYo Games recorded a loss of £12,430 ($19,850/€14,950). Company accounts, filed Friday, show that YoYo Games Ltd almost broke even after a loss of £180,000 in the previous year to October 31st 2008. In January 2009 YoYo Games raised the price of the full version of Game Maker by […] More

YoYo Games’ grant from the Scottish Government is worth £220,000 (€265,000, $350,000) for the “development and distribution of internet based games”. The Regional Selective Assistance investment grant funded by Scottish Taxpayers, part of £16m of funding announced for the last quarter, was given on the condition that it would create at least 24 new jobs. RSA […] More

Almost 3 months since the initial release of Instant Play for FireFox 3.6, YoYo Games have finally released a fix. A fix was released (by me) exactly 2 months ago at the Game Maker Community which leaves you wondering why it took a company like YoYo Games an additional 2 months to discover and fix […] More

Kirsty Scott has officially announced Andrew McCluskey, better known to some as NAL, as the latest member of the YoYo Games team. Andrew started working for YoYo Games last week and made the long trip up to Dundee at the weekend. I’ve known Andrew for a relatively short period of my time in the Game […] More

I’m told there are 500 of them in a box in Dundee. More

Kirsty Scott has announced herself as YoYo Games’ Community Manager in a post at the YoYo Games blog. Kirsty also posted the first YoYo Games staff photo of Russell Kay, Sandy Duncan, herself and Mike Dailly (l-r in the photo below). The announcement wasn’t a surprise as looking back at my large collection of Game […] More