Expect more news to be posted as the IGF deadlines approach. Again, that's October 1st for the main competition and October 15th for the student competition (just 56 and 70 days to go, respectively)! For this update we have some great news for web game developers:

Kongregate Competition - Flash game site Kongregate is running a competition where its 10 highest rated games of the year, as of September 15th 2007, will be entered into the IGF "Best Web Game" category free of charge. If you have a free Flash game that you'd like to enter this is a great way to go about it.

Kongregate is an online hub for players and developers to upload their work, play games, and work together as a community. Go check out the site here.

Unity Competition - OTEE is running a game development competition for developers using Unity, their 3D game development tool. The contest is for online games played in a web browser using the Unity Web Player. In addition to a cash award and other prizes, the five contest finalists will each be entered into the IGF's “Best Web Game” category free of charge.

Unity is a modern cross-platform 3D game engine with an emphasis on ease of use. For more information on Unity and the development contest visit their contest information page.

Independent Games Summit Videos - Also, the IGS website has posted more videos of the great lectures and panels from the inagural Independent Games Summit. Telltale's Dave Grossman speaks about managing episodic game development, with some juicy bits on scheduling, and Gamelab's Eric Zimmerman talks about milking the casual cash cow.

Visit the IGS website for a listing of all of the videos posted so far.