Competitions

Dream Build Play, the annual, Microsoft-sponsored XNA development contest, is now open for registration. Users can sign up at the source link below and, when submissions open in May, submit their game for consideration. The contest is now open to Windows Phone as well as Xbox Live Indie Games, with the developer of the best game on each platform receiving $20,000. More >

Here's a list of useful tools and components available from the Unity Asset Store that should help eliminate that dreaded blank canvas syndrome. More >

The full rules and conditions for our Edge Create Challenge 2012. More >

To get you off to a flying start in the Edge Create Challenge 2012 we've gathered together some tutorials on creating with Unity. More >

The 22nd edition of the game development competition attracts record game submissions, with contributions from Markus "Notch" Persson, QWOP maker Bennett Foddy and Traal maker Jonathan Whiting. More >

Today’s the final day to have a chance at winning a pair of tickets to the London leg of Nintendo’s Zelda celebration concerts. We’re giving away five pairs of tickets to the event taking place at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on October 25 – the only confirmed European date for the tour. Enter at our Facebook page (follow the source link below): hit the competitions tab in the left column, and answer the multiple choice questions. While you’re at it – give us a Like and get involved with your fellow Edge readers, eh?

Valve, and band The National, have announced the winners of their Exile Vilify music video contest. The competition tasked budding directors with matching visuals to the song, written specifically for Portal 2 by The National. It would seem that the developer and band had trouble selecting just one video from all the entries, so two first-place winners take home a prize package each. You can see the winning videos below, and view some of the runners up by following the source link. Any excuse to listen to The National's heartbreaking tune again is fine by us.

Creative fans of The National's rather lovely Exile Vilify, a song written for Portal 2, have a chance of winning a guitar signed by the band and pack of Valve swag. Aside from featuring the song itself and being uploaded to YouTube, the brief for the video is very open: "live action, game assets, shots of the band, sock puppets, whatever you want." All entries should be tagged PORTAL2NATIONALEXILE by the closing date of July 15. There aren't many entries there yet, but below is an early gem (includes spoilers).