The fight for the developers of hyper-casual games continues. This time, the French Homa Games launches its gamejam. The winner is waiting for $ 50 thousand and a contract with the publisher.

MY.GAMES, a new gaming brand Mail.Ru Group, makes a generous offer to the creators of AAA shooters for consoles. The company will choose the most promising project, finance its development and give its authors a game studio.

The theme of the contest: content that encourages changing the planet for the better.

Unity Technologies and Universal Film Studio have announced a competition for game developers. Its participants will be able to create games based on Universal franchises, including “Back to the Future”, “Battlestar Galactica”, “Jaws” and others. The winner will receive $250 thousand.

Google has opened the acceptance of works for the competition for developers of Android games Google Play Indie Games Contest. This year, for the first time, game creators from Russia and 27 other European countries will be able to participate in it.

Google has determined the winners of the next competition for independent mobile game developers.

There are only 1,421 gaming apps available for Windows 8 right now. This figure was announced at the London Games Conference 2012 by Andrew Webber, head of Microsoft’s marketing department.