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The process of creating your own game is definitely not a walk in the park. There are an endless number of steps that need to be taken, and that is before the coding can even begin. Once those steps are complete, coding could easily see you spiral down into a world of confusion and bugs […] More

Another new GameMaker ‘magazine’ has been released, just a day after Prodigy Game Magazine hit the GMC. This magazine however takes the much more practical approach of being a PowerPoint slide show distributed as a password protected download. “GRandER” – (suggestions regarding the origins of the name wanted!) – features a review of Iji a […] More

After earlier discovering an exploit that enabled a Firefox extension to secretly be downloaded whilst a user runs an Instant Play application James Rhodes has discovered several more vulnerabilities in YoYo Games’ Instant Play feature. One vulnerability can fetch the login hash of Windows XP user’s logged into YoYo Games if they have selected the […] More

Go back a couple of years and the standard answer to “how to I get my game to work online?” was, “you don’t”. However in the present day you would probably be greeted with a variety of options. Think YoYo Games’ Instant Play, GMBed, GMX, GMArcade and YAIPP. These are the better known of the […] More