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More than 20,000 Game Developers and fans of the world’s most widely used Game Development Engine, Game Maker have celebrated the launch of the latest version by downloading it from the website www.yoyogames.com in the first 24 hours since launch.

“Game Maker has been downloaded more than 3 million times since the launch of YoYo Games in 2007” said Sandy Duncan, YoYoGames CEO “We aren’t surprised that a major update to the software has generated so much excitement and attention in such a short space of time. “

Game Maker allows people without any prior programming experience to create real, working video games in the shortest possible time. The drag and drop user interface makes it easy for novices to quickly understand the anatomy of a real game and quickly create their own projects.

Game Maker is more than just a tool for novices with several developers having successfully sold their games to major casual games publishers.

The latest version of Game Maker includes :-
• Must faster code execution and a completely rewritten code editor.
• Support for .png images with transparency. A large collection of over 500 high-quality sprites is included.
• A new image editor with many features that allows for the easy creation of sprites and backgrounds.
• Support for collaborate with multiple people working on games.
• Ability to display web pages and html documents in games.

“To witness the extraordinary demand for the latest version of Game Maker is an amazing experience for me personally” said Prof Mark Overmars, the original creator of Game Maker. “Since 1999 I’ve watched Game Maker develop through 8 major releases and each time the Community continues to grow exponentially.” He continued. “It’s unbelievable to think that, what began as a personal project is now used on Universities, Schools and in people’s homes in over 100 countries worldwide”, concluded Mark Overmars.

YoYoGames.com is dedicated to the Game Maker Community and currently has more than a Quarter of a Million registered users and is visited by a worldwide audience of more over One and a Half Million people every month, making YoYo Games the single largest community of Game Developers on the Interne

Following the closure of Arcadewebmasterforum.net and the major downtime from Arcadewebmasters.com and Arcadewebmasterforum.com we have decided to add a forum onto our blog website. Making only two forums of it’s kind on the internet with the goal of serving the Arcade / Casual gaming community the other one being TalkArcades.com.

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ArcadeExchange.com, a banner exchange service for english language arcade websites, has been sold for $500. This is the second arcade website banner exchange to sell in as many months. Klixe.com was sold last month as we reported here.

The website has experienced fairly good growth with its founding owner and was sold so that the websites original creator can focus on a new project.

ArcadeResources.net spoke briefly with the buyer, while the sale was private we can tell you that the buyer owns a few of his own arcade websites. When asked about any plans for changes or upgrades the new owner told us he plans on upgrading the dedicated server to better handle the growing exchanges and that the service will stay focused on English language quality traffic, at least in the short term.

You can read the original sale threads here:
www.talkarcades.com
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1276550

Find more banner exchanges here:
http://www.arcaderesources.net/arcade-banner-exchanges/

the trailer for the recently launched title from Intuition Games


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play it here: www.kongregate.com/games/intuition/dinowaurs

On Sunday February 15th Klixe.com was sold on Digital Point Forums for a sum that was undisclosed to an unknown buyer. The seller, identified as “JTCentral”, was asking for a ‘buy it now’ price of $1,000 - it can be assumed that this was indeed the amount it was sold for.

Klixe is a banner exchange program for arcade websites. According to the sales thread the exchange program has over 220 member websites and the site earns roughly $1,700 per year in revenue. Attempts to reach the buyer for comment went unanswered, however, with the price paid we can assume the exchange program will remain in use.

more:
Visit Klixe.com
See the sales thread

NewGrounds.com has announced it’s 2nd annual tank awards. This year the awards are for ‘Best Game’ and ‘Best Movie’.

The nominees were selected by winning a monthly contest in which users on NewGrounds rate and vote for the top monthly winners. The nominees will be judged on Overall concept and originality, Game mechanism and controls, Replay appeal and Level of difficulty/accessibility. The judging panel consist of the websites staff, other game programmers not nominated and last years winners. The winners for the Tank Awards will be announced March 6th. You can go here for more information: http://www.newgrounds.com/awards2008.html?page=games

This years nominees for Best Game are:
Achievement Unlocked
Aether
Bubble Tanks 2
Castle Crashing the Beard
Chronotron
Dark Cut 3
Dino Run
FPA: World 2
:the game:
GemCraft
Journeys of Remus: CH 2
Karoshic Suicide Salaryman
The Last Stand 2
The Majesty of Colors
Mastermind: WC
Meat Boy
Pandemic 2
Pico Blast
Shift
Tentadrill
The Torture Game

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