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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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Jun 27th, 2019
Treyarch says it takes employee wellbeing "very seriously" following damning report into Call of Duty Black Ops 4's development
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Jun 27th, 2019
Games industry only "paying lip service" to addiction, says DCMS select committee chair
Companies aren't taking the issue seriously enough according to MP Damian Collins
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Jun 27th, 2019
Prison Architect has been played by over four million people to date
Console developer Double Eleven taking over the project following Paradox sale
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Jun 27th, 2019
15 per cent of American gamers predominantly play on PC
30 per cent of US citizens pay for gaming subscription service
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Jun 27th, 2019
India's Reliance Entertainment owns just 14.2 per cent of Codemasters today
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019
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Jun 26th, 2019
Only 15 per cent of UK, French, Spanish and German gamers are interesting streaming services, but this tech isn't really for them anyways
New research shows that EU users aren't on-board with platforms like Google Stadia and xCloud
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Jun 26th, 2019
Epic boss Sweeney says exclusives might be unpopular with Steam users but rev share disruption plan is working
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Jun 25th, 2019
Destiny 2 content delayed as Bungie looks to maintain developer work-life balance
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Jun 24th, 2019
Streaming won't necessarily take the entire games market to subscription models, says WBIE's Haddad

Treyarch says it takes employee wellbeing "very seriously" following damning report into Call of Duty Black Ops 4's development

Games industry only "paying lip service" to addiction, says DCMS select committee chair
Companies aren't taking the issue seriously enough according to MP Damian Collins

Prison Architect has been played by over four million people to date
Console developer Double Eleven taking over the project following Paradox sale

15 per cent of American gamers predominantly play on PC
30 per cent of US citizens pay for gaming subscription service

India's Reliance Entertainment owns just 14.2 per cent of Codemasters today
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019

Only 15 per cent of UK, French, Spanish and German gamers are interesting streaming services, but this tech isn't really for them anyways
New research shows that EU users aren't on-board with platforms like Google Stadia and xCloud

Epic boss Sweeney says exclusives might be unpopular with Steam users but rev share disruption plan is working

Destiny 2 content delayed as Bungie looks to maintain developer work-life balance

Streaming won't necessarily take the entire games market to subscription models, says WBIE's Haddad
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