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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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Aug 27th, 2019
#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Steam changes, Wolfenstein, Denuvo, HP Omen and much more!
News
Aug 27th, 2019
Ion Fury devs walk back on apology for homophobic content following Steam review bomb
News
Aug 27th, 2019
373,000 people attended Gamescom 2019
"Gamescom once again impressively continued its success story this year: on-site and online"
Feature
Aug 23rd, 2019
The Times They Are A-Changin': How Valve is trying to update Steam for the modern games industry
News
Aug 23rd, 2019
Riot reaches preliminary agreement with members of discrimination class-action lawsuit
News
Aug 21st, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - HP Omen has softened up its branding to make games more welcoming
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - MachineGames says it never meant Wolfenstein titles to be relevant and that it's "incredibly disappointing" that they are
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - Microsoft's new Age of Empires arm isn't a developer, firm overseeing other studios working on IP
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - Introduction of dragons helped The Elder Scrolls Online reach 13.5m users, Zenimax Online says
News
Aug 19th, 2019
Devcom 2019 - Figuring out important concepts is vital to writing sequels, Borderlands 3 narrative boss Varnell says
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Aug 19th, 2019
Devcom 2019 - Budget for Remedy's Control between €20m and €30m
Finnish developer needs to shift one or two million copies to break even
News
Aug 27th, 2019
#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Steam changes, Wolfenstein, Denuvo, HP Omen and much more!
News
Aug 27th, 2019
Ion Fury devs walk back on apology for homophobic content following Steam review bomb
News
Aug 27th, 2019
373,000 people attended Gamescom 2019
"Gamescom once again impressively continued its success story this year: on-site and online"
Feature
Aug 23rd, 2019
The Times They Are A-Changin': How Valve is trying to update Steam for the modern games industry
News
Aug 23rd, 2019
Riot reaches preliminary agreement with members of discrimination class-action lawsuit
News
Aug 21st, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - HP Omen has softened up its branding to make games more welcoming
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - MachineGames says it never meant Wolfenstein titles to be relevant and that it's "incredibly disappointing" that they are
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - Microsoft's new Age of Empires arm isn't a developer, firm overseeing other studios working on IP
News
Aug 20th, 2019
Gamescom 2019 - Introduction of dragons helped The Elder Scrolls Online reach 13.5m users, Zenimax Online says
News
Aug 19th, 2019
Devcom 2019 - Figuring out important concepts is vital to writing sequels, Borderlands 3 narrative boss Varnell says
News
Aug 19th, 2019
Devcom 2019 - Budget for Remedy's Control between €20m and €30m
Finnish developer needs to shift one or two million copies to break even
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