YoYo Games

On January 26 2007, Mark Overmars announced that he would be working with a company in the UK named YoYo Games. The company, headed by CEO Sandy Duncan (ex Vice President of Xbox Europe), was founded to support the future development of Game Maker, and to develop a community for developers and casual games players. The motive behind the cooperation is that it would bring faster and better development to Game Maker, as well as provide a better website for its users. The website is a community in which users can upload, share, and play their created games and those made by others while having the ability to review and discuss these games, and games in development on the website. It will also provide a much extended help system and support for the sharing of resources. YoYo Games is recreating the GMC (Game Maker Community) and YoYo Games has published Game Maker 7. On April 28, 2007, the YoYo Games Web site was officially released to the public (in beta). On October 17, 2009, the beta sticker was removed from the website.

YoYo Games provides a free hosting service for any Game Maker games - by December 2009, over 74,000 games were uploaded and over 256,000 members were created.

The website also has an instant play feature so people can play games online, as well as offering downloads on all content.

On January 10th, 2008, YoYo Games concluded its first Game Maker competition, awarding $1750 in prizes to the three winning developers. On 1st February, 2008, YoYoGames announced the second competition, based on the theme of 'Ancient Civilizations' with total prize money of $1790. There has since been two more competitions - themed Cooperation and Save the Planet.

Criticism
Some members of the Game Maker Community have criticized YoYo Games and Prof. Overmars' deal with them.