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    Theme of third YoYo Games competition announced

    It’s Co-Operation. The competition hasn’t officially been launched, but you know the theme… a strange decision I think. Plus Jim from YoYo Games has announced that the deadline for the second, ancient civilization, competition will be extended until midnight of Sunday 4th of May (GMT) because of YoYo Games’ downtime. Too bad they didn’t update […] More

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    Sandy speaks: GameMaker 8 in 2009

    CEO of YoYo Games Sandy Duncan has revealed some interesting information about the future of YoYo Games and GameMaker, not through his glog, but during an interview with ThatVideoGameBlog. Sandy also provided the story behind the get-together of YoYo Games Ltd and GameMaker something I had not known previously. ThatVideoGameBlog: What were some of the […] More

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    New look YoYo-ized GMC

    The GMC is looking distinctly green. Here is a quick comparison conducted between the ‘old’ GMC (on 16th March) and the recently updated YoYo Games styled version (today). I am unable to find the option to revert back to the old version which I remember an administrator stating would probably remain. 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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    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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    Exclusive Interview with Winter Competition winner

    A week ago YoYoGames announced the results of their $1750 winter games competition, the winner of which was “Frozzd” by 2DCube. Courtesy of GMKing’s open forum policy information submitted by applicants for positions at the MarkUp magazine can be viewed by any member of the public – you don’t even have to be registered. A […] 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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