YoYo Games

Mark Overmars was one of the speakers at a Microsoft Academic Day on Game Development in 2008. We have just recently reached ten years since the launch of the first Game Maker version, so now seems quite an appropriate time to look at the past, present and future of the software.  This also provides a […] More

Five finalists have been selected in the competition to design a new logo for Game Maker earning themselves a free copy of Game Maker 8 Pro. In response to an increasing level of criticism directed towards YoYo Games by Game Maker users frustrated at the lack of announcements regarding the current state of the competition, Beneibe posted a […] More

The 41,000+ games uploaded at YoYoGames.com have now been played over 10,000,000 times in total. Although this is a nice milestone figure for the site to reach the number of game plays per day has not increased over the past year. The game with the most plays by far remains sakisa‘s Crimelife 2 which has […] More

At today’s Casual Games Forum in London YoYo Games Ltd CEO Sandy Duncan spoke of the merits of micropayments. Micropayments (wiki article) are transactions with a unusually small monetary value often used to unlock extra features in games. In 2007 90% of Habbo Hotel’s $60M+ revenue came from the sale of virtual goods. I didn’t buy a […] More

YoYo Games Ltd are currently trying to raise new investment in the company. We recently posted documents which showed that in the two years to 31st October 2008 YoYo Games lost more than £420,000 (~$680,000 USD).  Speaking on this weekend’s GMLive host Joshua Pedroza said that although he is “not allowed to say much about this” […] More

Michel Cassius, former head of xBox in Europe, Middle East and Africa, is a co-founder of and shareholder in YoYo Games Ltd. These videos were recorded at What’s next for Online Gaming which took place in December 2007.  Michel discusses the idea behind YoYo Games, the business model and why he thinks they will succeed. More

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

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