Alex Calvin

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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 Sep 16th, 2021

Roblox hit 48.2m daily active users in August

That's a 32 per cent increase year-on-year

News Sep 16th, 2021

Halo 5 is not coming to PC, 343 confirms

Follows leak of "speculative" games for Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service

News Sep 15th, 2021

Union files NLRB complaint against Activision Blizzard

Apparently the publishing giant has infringed upon employee labour rights

News Sep 15th, 2021

Atomhawk opening new UK art studio

This is going to be the company's third office

Job News Sep 15th, 2021

Activision Blizzard hires new people and commercial execs

Disney and Delta vets come on board

News Sep 15th, 2021

Funcom buys Conan the Barbarian IP

No figure placed on the deal

News Sep 14th, 2021

EA not involved in Star Wars: KOTOR remake, apparently

Publishing giant gives response that's as clear as mud to be honest

News Sep 14th, 2021

Sumo Group has snapped up Auroch Digital

Cash payment of $8.3 million upfront with further cash on performance

News Sep 14th, 2021

Nvidia says leaked GeForce Now game list is "speculative"

God of War, Half-Life 2 Remastered and Halo 5 for PC not necessarily coming to the streaming platform

News Sep 14th, 2021

Returning Paradox boss apologies for "inappropriate behavior" towards employee in 2018

Apparently had nothing to do with him leaving the CEO position that same year

News Sep 13th, 2021

Twitch files lawsuit against two users over hate raids

Filing claims that duo is behind thousands of bots used for harassment on the platform

Job News Sep 13th, 2021

Stadia director Buser moves to Google Cloud team

Search giant says this shows commitment to games streaming business

News Sep 13th, 2021

Women and minorities in management roles at Riot inched up in 2020

But female hires slowed down in this time

News Sep 13th, 2021

CHARTS: Bandai Namco's Tales of Arise takes No.1 on Steam

RPG makes three appearances in the charts this week

Job News Sep 10th, 2021

Sumo Group hires first equality, diversity and inclusion manager

Leon Killin joined the company back in July

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