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    YoYoGames.com is worth $696,640

    Many of you have probably seen people trying to flog off third-rate domain names claiming to have had them appraised and valued at ridiculously humongous sums. DNScoop is actually one of the reasonable sites out their valuing websites based on their Page Rank, number of incoming links and age of domain amongst some other figures. […] More

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    YoYo to go Instant Play only

    YoYo Games planned to do away with the download option on their website, and instead only allow games to be played via their “InstantPlay” technology. Another reason to avoid YoYo it seems. Fortunately other people agreed that this was not what they wanted, forcing Sandy to respond: “What I’m now proposing to do is add […] More

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    YoYo Games – One year on from GameMaker 7

    It has been a year since the first (and only) release of Game Maker under YoYo Games Ltd. A year which has seen the rise of YoYoGames.com, plenty of registration problems and, as is so often the case with Game Maker related matters, a lot of controversy. Timeline of YoYo Games Ltd Oct 15th 2004: […] More

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    YoYo to invest $5M in Game Maker

    Three quick snippets of news from YoYo Games Ltd: Sandy has quietly mentioned that YoYo plan to invest $5M into the Game Maker software and their website. “we are planning to spend almost $5M on Game Maker and YoYo Games over the next 2 years. We’ve all been pretty successful in business so far, but […] More

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    GameMaker on Linux?

    Writing on PascalGameDevelopment.com, savage, working for SumoDigital (the company working on porting GameMaker) has written The games are not the things are being ported, but the IDE and engine are. The IDE creates the game files these are then fed into the engine. The same game files works on both Win32 and Mac OS X […] More

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    YoYo Games hint at Revenue Sharing

    Sandy from YoYo Games has hinted at the introduction of a revenue sharing scheme for games hosted on their website. Sometime later this year we will make some big changes to the way that this site works and many of you will have the opportunity to earn some money for the games that you have […] More

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    YoYo announce second competition

    YoYo Games have announced the details of their second Game Maker competition. Prizes still total $1750 but this time the theme is ‘Ancient Civilisation’. I guess we can expect to see lots of Egyptian pyramids then….. ‘Ancient Civilisation’ is quite vague so leaves a wide scope but I expect we will see one or two […] More

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    YoYoGames Press Release Jan 21st 2008

    I haven’t seen this at the YoYo blog yet, but this is a press release from YoYoGames (January 21st, 2008). Finally we can see what YoYo think of themselves… “10,000 games uploaded in 200 days represents a ground breaking achievement for YoYo Games, a start-up games company which looks set to shake up the booming […] More

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    YoYo Games: what would make the website much better

    I’m not quite satisfied with the YoYoGames.com website: it certainly is lacking in many, many directions. And it has been having numerous of stability problems in the last month. I have written a complete list of necessary improvements to YYG.com, for everybody. I will divide these arguments into multiple categories: “Profile” and “Gaming”. Profile will […] More

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    Winter Competition Results

    YoYo’s five judges have announced the results of their $1750 winter competition. The panel was made up of Sandy Duncan, Mark Overmars, Jim, Michel and Clayts. A total of 236 games were uploaded covering a wide range of gameplay and of course quality. There had been some complaints by users entering the competition regarding the […] More

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    YoYo Release Stats

    Sandy Duncan from YoYo Games has released some stats on the popularity of their website on his blog. “The website today gets,on average about 25,000 visitors per day. When you’re here you spend more than 7 minutes on each visit and view more than 8 pages on the website. If I include the “Beta” and […] More

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    YoYo Games Accounts

    Have you ever wondered how much YoYo had in the bank at the end of 2006, or perhaps who the shareholders and directors are? Me neither, I’d much prefer to have the figures for 2007 which is, after all, when they were founded isn’t it? Actually no (more on that later). A trip to Companies […] More

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