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 Jul 10th, 2019

No Man's Sky developer Hello Games' cash reserves rose over 2,500% between 2016 and 2018

Finally, an indication of how the ambitious sci-fi game performed

News Jul 10th, 2019

Hangar 13: "Mafia III may be more culturally relevant now than when it came out"

President and chief creative officer Haden Blackman says it is the game he is most proud of

News Jul 10th, 2019

Weather Factory says it probably shouldn't have signed Humble publishing deal for Cultist Simulator but studio is glad it did

Developer hoping to self-publish next project

News Jul 10th, 2019

Catering for disabled people in games is potentially good for business, according to Nopia's Prehn

One-fifth of the population is disabled in some way, so addressing this 20 per cent is probably good for growing your audience, Nopia's Felicia Prehn says

News Jul 9th, 2019

Large portion of No Man's Sky critics hadn't played the game, Hello's Murray says

Studio founder says there was a lot of useful feedback once it filtered out this noise

News Jul 9th, 2019

Update: South Korea's Nexon is no longer up for sale following lack of buyers

CEO Jungju Kim apparently wasn't impressed by the list of companies who stepped forward

Success Story Jul 8th, 2019

How My Friend Pedro shot past 250,000 sales in seven days

One-man developer Victor Agren aka Deadtoast Entertainment tells us more

News Jul 8th, 2019

G2A defends its business amid renewed criticism from developers and publishers

Platform says it'll compensate firms who lose keys to credit card fraud up ten times what they lost

News Jul 8th, 2019

Chinese companies including Tencent want new age-rating system in the region

Follows frustration with the country's approval process

News Jul 8th, 2019

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns

"I personally grew up in the pre-DRM era, and love having all my games and OSTs available anywhere, not requiring an online connection or a launcher"

News Jul 8th, 2019

CHARTS: PUBG claims another Steam Top Ten chicken dinner thanks to Summer Sale

Battle royale title makes its first appearance in the No.1 spot for a while

News Jul 8th, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Mike Bithell, UKIE, Disney in games and much more

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

News Jul 4th, 2019

UKIE says UK government needs to support games industry as France launches campaign to attract companies to region

'Our reputation can be eroded in a globally competitive industry. The emergence of a programme designed to poach talent and businesses from the UK should remind policymakers of this fact'

Job News Jul 4th, 2019

New VP of studio, technical director and QA boss hired at RuneScape maker Jagex

While Mark Faulkner returns to head up firm's publishing platform and Ben Alton is promoted to IT director

News Jul 4th, 2019

Investment house Gerber Kawasaki says Disney should buy Activision Blizzard - but who would be a good games fit for the House of Mouse?

Following terrible experiences in the past, CEO Robert Iger says it prefers to license out its IP to games firms

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Develop: Brighton 2025	Europe	Jul 8th
TennoCon 2025	North America	Jul 18th
BitSummit 2025	Asia	Jul 18th
Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai 2025	Asia	Jul 30th
Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai 2025	Asia	Jul 30th
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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