Image Via Zoud The UAE’s National Financial Wellbeing and Sustainability Initiative, Zoud, has partnered with Global Game Jam to launch Zoud GameLab, a new international game jam focused on using games to promote financial literacy. The fully virtual competition will take place from October 15 to November 15, 2026, inviting game developers, designers, artists, writers, teams and studios from around the world to create games that explore financial concepts and everyday money d

Image via 3D Game Jam / AssetHub Saudi Arabia is hosting a three-day game jam bringing more than 200 developers, artists and designers together with veteran Japanese game creators to build playable prototypes using AI and 3D technology. The 3D Game Jam kicked off on August 27 at Code Lab, King Saud University in Riyadh and runs until August 30, with participants able to take part both in person and online. Powered by AI 3D platform AssetHub, the event challenges teams to move

Jordan Gaming Lab, an initiative of the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD), hosted the local edition of the "Games (Zanga) Jam 2026" challenge. 80 young men and women enagaged to develop games over an intensive period across four of the lab's branches in Amman, Zarqa, Aqaba, and Irbid. The 3-day event coincided with the Arabic version of "Games Jam," a non-profit Arab game development initiative. The challenge gives participants 72 hours to design and develop a comp