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 Nov 18th, 2020

THQ Nordic parent Embracer just bought 12 games studios and a PR firm

Company now operates 58 developers

News Nov 17th, 2020

EA vet Patrick Söderlund's Embark Studios starts work in second project

Meanwhile, the developer's debut game entered production in spring

News Nov 17th, 2020

Nope, THQ Nordic isn't teasing a TimeSplitters 2 remake (at the moment)

Follows a joke in SpellForce 3 leading to speculation an updated version was on the way

News Nov 17th, 2020

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is second highest-grossing game in US in last 12 months

EA and Respawn's action-adventure title comes in only behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

News Nov 17th, 2020

Microsoft says Bethesda games will be "first or better" on Xbox platforms

CFO Stuart says plan isn't to restrict future titles to its own ecosystem

News Nov 16th, 2020

Yakuza producer Sato wants to make a Sonic game

But the development vet says he'd do something "completely different" with the IP

News Nov 16th, 2020

Publisher and developer behind XIII remake apologise for game's quality

"In its present state, XIII does not meet our quality standards and we fully understand players’ frustrations"

News Nov 16th, 2020

Twitch donates $1m to charity AbleGamers

Organisation's COO Spohn says this money is "going to *literally* change the lives of thousands of people with disabilities"

News Nov 16th, 2020

CHARTS: Destiny 2's Beyond Light expansion dominates Steam Top Ten

Long-time bestsellers Among Us and Phasmophobia pushed down the rankings

News Nov 13th, 2020

Ubisoft claims Assassin's Creed Valhalla saw double the Day One players of Odyssey

"We are humbled by the reception from the players and extremely proud of what our teams have accomplished"

News Nov 13th, 2020

Oculus is trying to make VR more accessible

Facebook-owned firm introduces new recommendations for addressing a broader audience

News Nov 13th, 2020

FIFA 21 rolls out Playtime tool to limit and track FIFA Points spending

Part of a new set of tools called Playtime

News Nov 13th, 2020

Unity reports 53% revenue increase in first quarter since IPO

Firm discloses that Fall Guys has sold at least 10m copies on Steam alone

News Nov 12th, 2020

EA facing another loot box class-action lawsuit

Publishing giant says it is "baseless"

Job News Nov 12th, 2020

Development services firm Amber opening studio in Montréal

Outpost focused on QA, localisation and engineering initially

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