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 May 7th, 2021

Humble ditches plans to axe charity sliders

Company is going back on its plans to cap contributions to charitable causes

News May 6th, 2021

Apex Legends hits 291k concurrent users on Steam following Season Nine launch

But the game has faced considerable server issues due to this popularity

News May 6th, 2021

Tencent in talks with US to keep stakes in Epic and Riot

Discussions so far focusing on risk mitigation when it comes to personal data

News May 6th, 2021

Gamescom goes all-digital for 2021 show

Organisers ditch plans for hybrid physical and online event

News May 6th, 2021

EA snaps up Super Mega Baseball dev Metalhead

"We’re excited to leverage EA’s power and reach to bring our titles to a broader audience and to take some ambitious next steps in the development of our future titles"

Job News May 5th, 2021

Witcher 3 director Tomaszkiewicz departs CD Projekt after bullying investigation

Internal inquiry found him not guilty, developer has apologised for how he made people feel

News May 5th, 2021

Report: Roblox had 202m active users in April

This is a record for the platform

News May 5th, 2021

Report: Active Blizzard playerbase has dipped 29% since 2018

Overall Activision Blizzard, player stats have increased by 16 per cent

Job News May 5th, 2021

Stadia product head Justice has left Google

The streaming service does not appear to have had a good start to its life

News May 4th, 2021

Epic snaps up ArtStation platform

Fortnite maker has already tweaked the service's revenue split to be in line with its own

News May 4th, 2021

CD Projekt management received huge bonuses despite Cyberpunk 2077's troubled launch

Five board members were awarded a total of $28 million

News May 4th, 2021

CHARTS: Battle royale behemoth Playerunknown's Battlegrounds back at Steam No.1 spot

Thanks to a 50 per cent price cut

News May 4th, 2021

Epic paid out $115m for Borderlands 3 exclusivity

Part of a larger $146 million deal with publisher 2K Games

News Apr 30th, 2021

Report: Hitman dev IO making fantasy IP for Microsoft

The Danish studio has a lot of projects in the works right now

News Apr 30th, 2021

Activision Blizzard's Kotick sees 50% salary and bonus cut

Follows hefty criticism of the exec's compensation in recent years

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