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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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Mar 23rd, 2020
Doom Eternal hits 104.9k concurrent users on Steam
That's 236.9 per cent higher than the player record for 2016's Doom
News
Mar 23rd, 2020
Coronavirus leads to new Steam concurrent player record, again
More than 22m people were using Valve's platform at once this weekend
News
Mar 19th, 2020
UK retailer GAME is keeping stores open
Staff have been given hand sanitiser and have been told to clean surfaces
News
Mar 18th, 2020
Manticore wants to lower barrier to making and launching multiplayer games with new Core platform
"Our goal is to make it so you wouldn't want to [sell a game on Steam]."

Doom Eternal hits 104.9k concurrent users on Steam
That's 236.9 per cent higher than the player record for 2016's Doom

Coronavirus leads to new Steam concurrent player record, again
More than 22m people were using Valve's platform at once this weekend

UK retailer GAME is keeping stores open
Staff have been given hand sanitiser and have been told to clean surfaces

Manticore wants to lower barrier to making and launching multiplayer games with new Core platform
"Our goal is to make it so you wouldn't want to [sell a game on Steam]."
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