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YoYo’s new CTO is former DMA employee Russell Kay

YoYo Games have revealed the identity of their new Chief Technology Officer as former DMA employee and programmer of the original PC lemmings game Russell Kay. By sheer coincidence I was reading about the history of Lemmings just a few days ago (is a good read). Russell was responsible for the game concept and name […] More

by Mark Smith March 10, 2010, 6:57 pm
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YoYo Hire CTO, Downtime Explanation, YYG Announcement Expected Tomorrow

YoYo Games have hired a Chief Technical Officer in Dundee and will be making an announcement “indirectly” related to Game Maker for PSP tomorrow. Yesterday’s downtime which affected all YoYo Games services including the Game Maker Community was caused by “simple maintenance” which went wrong following a firewall conflict. Around 30 minutes of downtime was […] More

by Mark Smith March 9, 2010, 6:03 pm
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Some Questions about the YoYo Games Homepage

I don’t think that the potentially lucrative space on the YoYoGames.com homepage is being put to its best use. There is limited real-estate on the index page of what is a popular gaming site so surely it should be continually updated with fresh new content to entice people to play different games, discover Game Maker […] More

by Mark Smith March 4, 2010, 11:21 pm
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YoYo Games use 12TB of Bandwidth a Month

After getting frustrated at a recent conversation (read from bottom to top) on Twitter with Brian Fetcher on the cost of running YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan has released details of YoYoGames.com’s bandwidth usage for the past 6 months. This is the first time that Sandy has commented on YoYo Games’ finances at the YoYoGames.com […] More

by Mark Smith February 6, 2010, 1:12 pm
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YoYoGames.com Forums Unmoderateable

The YoYoGames.com forums (not to be confused with the official Game Maker Community) has never had a particularly good reputation amongst the more-mature sections of Game Maker users. So when I came across this topic on an issue regarding race I wasn’t all that surprised. What I was disappointed to see though was that the […] More

by Mark Smith January 20, 2010, 11:18 pm
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Instant Play for Chrome and Game Maker 8

When Game Maker 8 was released last month the Instant Play facility offered on YoYoGames.com was not updated so games created with the latest version of the software are currently only available as standard downloads. Next week YoYo Games are due to release a new version of the Instant Play plugin for Firefox and Internet […] More

by Mark Smith January 16, 2010, 12:34 am
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Which Handheld Devices will Game Maker games appear on?

With the announcement of Competition 5, many people are probably curious about Game Maker coming to a portable device. But which one? With the diverse specifications for each device, its hard to tell which portable system will have the best chance of supporting Game Maker. Lets take a deeper look into each of the popular […] More

by Mark Smith December 31, 2009, 2:46 am
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Game Maker HandHeld Game Competition – What does this mean?

YoYo Games have announced their fifth Game Maker competition with $1750 of cash prizes. The theme, “Design A HandHeld Game“, is bound to reignite speculation of Game Maker games running on such devices in the future. A full list of game limitations are listed at the glog, the main limitations being a maximum 480 x […] More

by Mark Smith December 30, 2009, 5:35 pm
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YoYo Games speak out about Pirates

People who pirate Game Maker are not welcome at YoYoGames.com. That is the message given by Sandy and Mark Overmars in a post on the YoYo Games blog earlier today. Previously Sandy had said “The money we make helps to pay the bills, so buying Game Maker 8 whether you bought GM5 and have upgraded […] More

by Mark Smith December 19, 2009, 2:52 pm
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YYG Website Upgrade to Launch Monday/Competition 05

Sandy has recently posted news about the YoYo Games website upgrade that will be upgrading Rails to version 2.3 (The main software running the website). It was announced that the upgrade will happen on Monday next week and will allow the site to run smoother with fewer outages. Extensive testing has already been taking place, […] More

by Mark Smith December 12, 2009, 12:30 am
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Game Maker Christmas Wish List

Dear Santa Sandy, For Christmas this year I would like… The release of Game Maker 8. An online registration procedure that works painlessly both for new purchasers and those who have purchased Game Maker in 2009 A resolution to the logo dispute. Sorted 🙂 Chrome support for Instant Play (or even better a Java launcher […] More

by Mark Smith December 11, 2009, 1:06 am
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New Game Maker Logo Revealed

This is the new logo that will be used to represent Game Maker and has earned its creator, 15 year old Albert Zak, the $250 cash prize. The logo was selected by Game Maker creator Mark Overmars and YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan from more than 500 which were submitted by Game Maker users. In […] More

by Mark Smith November 27, 2009, 7:24 pm

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