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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Job News Jul 23rd, 2019

BioWare vet Michael Grills joins Insurgency maker New World Interactive

Hired by studio's new Calgary outfit as art director

News Jul 23rd, 2019

Football Manager 19 has sold more than two million copies

First release to do so, sales across all platforms

News Jul 22nd, 2019

VIDEO: Here's our first look at Netflix's The Witcher TV show

Revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2019

Job News Jul 22nd, 2019

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce stepping down from the Overwatch firm

"Words cannot express the gratitude I feel to have been involved with Blizzard, our games, our employees, and most importantly our community"

News Jul 22nd, 2019

Dota 2 The International 2019 prize pot hits $30m, surpassing Fortnite World Cup cash

Sitting at $30,158,755 at time of writing

News Jul 22nd, 2019

Microsoft's storefront will soon support mods

Though there's no word when this will be rolled out

Job News Jul 22nd, 2019

Ex-Visceral GM Steve Papoutsis headlines new hires at PUBG Corp's Striking Distance studio

Former Sledgehammer, Visceral and Crystal Dynamics vets join the new developer

News Jul 22nd, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Dragonest on Auto Chess, Willits leaves Id, Google Stadia AMA and much more!

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days.

Job News Jul 19th, 2019

Id Software studio boss Willits to leave the Doom developer

24-year vet to depart following Quakecon

News Jul 19th, 2019

Here's everything we learnt from Google's Stadia Reddit AMA

Search and software giant asserts its commitment to the tech, says why developers should come on board, discusses data caps and much more

News Jul 19th, 2019

Increase in subscription revenue offsets Fortnite decline for Microsoft as Xbox Live hits 65m monthly users

Games cash dips ten per cent year-on-year for the Big M

Job News Jul 19th, 2019

Terraforming Mars developer LuckyHammers closes down

70 staff to lose their job

News Jul 19th, 2019

Kongregate snaps up developer RPG Bit Heroes

Juppiomenz-developed title has made generated $10 million in net revenue on mobile

News Jul 18th, 2019

Anno 1800 helped drive PC to be Ubisoft's biggest cash cow for last quarter

"So the 34 per cent was also pushed by Anno which is a PC specific game. But even with that launch, we had a very good performance on PC overall"

News Jul 18th, 2019

Here's why Dragonest has teamed up with Tencent to publish Drodo Auto Chess in China

"A good product needs to be known by as many people as possible"

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