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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
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News
Nov 26th, 2020
Huge marketing spend partly to blame for Marvel's Avengers not meeting Square Enix expectations
News
Nov 25th, 2020
Epic adding subscription service to Fortnite next week
Follows rumours that something like this was coming to the battle royale game
Job News
Nov 24th, 2020
Surgeon Simulator maker Bossa makes round of redundancies
Developers, particularly QA team, hit hard by crunch this year, too
News
Nov 23rd, 2020
Mojang is letting moderators issue bans in Minecraft
Firm wants to "provide a positive and enjoyable environment" in its games
News
Nov 23rd, 2020
Number of Steam users playing with controllers has doubled in last two years
News comes as Valve adds support for PlayStation 5 DualSense
News
Nov 23rd, 2020
CHARTS: Cyberpunk 2077 takes Steam No.1 spot weeks before launch
Likely driven by numerous marketing events for the eagerly-anticipated RPG last week
Huge marketing spend partly to blame for Marvel's Avengers not meeting Square Enix expectations
Epic adding subscription service to Fortnite next week
Follows rumours that something like this was coming to the battle royale game
Surgeon Simulator maker Bossa makes round of redundancies
Developers, particularly QA team, hit hard by crunch this year, too
Mojang is letting moderators issue bans in Minecraft
Firm wants to "provide a positive and enjoyable environment" in its games
Number of Steam users playing with controllers has doubled in last two years
News comes as Valve adds support for PlayStation 5 DualSense
CHARTS: Cyberpunk 2077 takes Steam No.1 spot weeks before launch
Likely driven by numerous marketing events for the eagerly-anticipated RPG last week
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