This year’s DreamBuildPlay challenge kicks off today.The competition now runs over 4 months instead of last year’s three, and offers an inflated $40 000 for the best Xbox 360 game submitted on or before 6 August.

Regular readers will be aware that we’re strong proponents of this competition, with two teams from our community having entered it last year. Needless to say, we’re planning to put on our XNA gloves again this year. If all goes well, there may even be more entrants from Game.Dev than we had before.

Make sure you register and claim your 12 month trial membership that will allow you to develop and deploy games to your 360 console.