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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 27th, 2020
Over half of Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders are digital
Firm expects more sales to be digital for the eagerly-anticipated RPG over time
News
Nov 27th, 2020
Cave Story Engine 2 hit by DMCA strike from Nicalis
Publisher alleges that the project uses original source code
News
Nov 27th, 2020
Sega Europe wants to focus on creating new IP
"Each one of our studios really does own a franchise, and they're all mature now by and large"
News
Nov 26th, 2020
Witcher 3 helps drive revenue up 12.5% at CD Projekt
And it looks like Cyberpunk 2077 was pre-ordered 23,400 times on GOG between July and September
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

Over half of Cyberpunk 2077 pre-orders are digital
Firm expects more sales to be digital for the eagerly-anticipated RPG over time

Cave Story Engine 2 hit by DMCA strike from Nicalis
Publisher alleges that the project uses original source code

Sega Europe wants to focus on creating new IP
"Each one of our studios really does own a franchise, and they're all mature now by and large"

Witcher 3 helps drive revenue up 12.5% at CD Projekt
And it looks like Cyberpunk 2077 was pre-ordered 23,400 times on GOG between July and September

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
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