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    100K plays for Crimelife

    Crimelife 2, a 3D Grand Theft Auto clone created by Sakis Rogas, has become the first game on YoYoGames.com to have been played more than 100,000 times. Crimelife 2, which is also a YoYo Games staff pick, has been played almost twice as many times as the second most popular Game on YoYo – Sascha […] More

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    And the winners are…

    There was much annoyance at the fact what defines Civilization, there was a total of 260 entries into the competition, the deadline was increased after someone at YYG thought it would be a good idea to try and move the whole website over to a new server – near the end of the contest. But […] More

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    GMArcade.com under attack

    The most popular “instant play” style website besides YoYoGames, GMArcade, has been under attack and is once again looking to upgrade their servers. “First of all, I would like to apologize to you for todays downloading and online play downtime. We had someone continuously download a file over 125,000 times. This is also why the […] More

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    What next at the GMC?

    Recent days have seen YoYo Games truly communicating with its community for the first time since it came into existence. We’ve had an upgraded forum with a new skin, frank admissions of YoYo’s shortcomings and the re-introduction of post counts. On top of that I am now frequently seeing Mark Overmars and Sandy Duncan online […] More

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    Sandy: “our customer support is terrible”

    Sandy Duncan CEO of YoYo Games has admitted that their “customer support is terrible” and that “the DRM sucks”. “If it helps I think some parts of the site suck, I think, at times, that the DRM sucks and I think, always, that our customer support is terrible.I spend most of my time and energy […] More

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    Shock Horror

    Something must be wrong. YoYoGames have updated their typo blog 5 times in the past 7 days! Keeping people informed of what is actually going on, what is the world coming too? Next you’ll be telling me they are going to make a version of GameMaker for the mac. More

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    “Sensational Garbage”

    pythonpoole stated the obvious in a post at the GMC regarding the pathetic loading times of YoYoGames. Anyone should be able to tell that YoYo is slow at loading because of the sheer amount of content they have on each page. But I thought this was illustrated particularly well in this topic at the GMC […] More