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 Jun 21st, 2019

GAME Digital board pushes for Sports Direct sale

But bosses sad they are unable to forge on and transform without extra help

News Jun 21st, 2019

Microsoft has renewed commitment to its developers, Double Fine's Schafer says

Xbox firm pulled support for original Psychonauts in 2004, but times have apparently changed

Feature Jun 21st, 2019

So, what is Auto Chess?

It's happened again - a small game developer has produced something that is now one of the hottest ticket in the world

News Jun 21st, 2019

EA's Wilson still has faith in BioWare despite Anthem and Mass Effect missteps

Publishing giant's CEO also discusses loot boxes and Battlefront II's less-than-stellar launch

News Jun 21st, 2019

Valve's Auto Chess title Dota Underlords hits 121k Steam concurrent users 24 hours after launch

Double the number of players Artifact attracted, but that was a premium title so it's far from a fair comparison

News Jun 20th, 2019

Here are six things we learnt from EA and Epic Games' time at the DCMS select committee

How much money is Fortnite making, how much is FIFA actually played and what EA likes to call loot boxes

Job News Jun 20th, 2019

14-year Sumo vet Gary Edwards to head up company's Nottingham outfit

Promoted to studio director

News Jun 20th, 2019

"Vast majority" of Microsoft games will be on its own platforms, says Xbox boss Spencer

Games head also discusses the firm's service business

News Jun 19th, 2019

Both Obsidian and InXile were trying to land Baldur's Gate IP for years

Ultimately Larian ended up making a new entry in the Dungeons and Dragons-inspired franchise

News Jun 19th, 2019

Microsoft's Azure cloud tech venture sets up shop in the UAE

Big M beats both Amazon and Google to the region

News Jun 19th, 2019

Ubisoft, Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD make Glassdoor's Top CEOs lists

French firm's boss Guillemot only pure video games exec to make the cut

Job News Jun 19th, 2019

US president hopeful Bernie Sanders backs game developer unionisation

Democratic Senator says workers should be reaping the rewards games brought in in the US last year

News Jun 18th, 2019

Newzoo expects global games revenue to increase 29 per cent between 2019 and 2022

Research firm reckons PC will be behind 23 per cent of revenue this year

Job News Jun 18th, 2019

Updated: EA confirms UK and Ireland boss Campbell's move to new role, Samantha Ebelthite replaces him in top job

Exec took on the role in October 2014

News Jun 18th, 2019

Report: Just five per cent of E3 2019 games had female protagonists

But titles with multiple options for main characters rose 16 per cent year-on-year

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ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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