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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
Apr 8th, 2019
European Commission says games firms including Valve, ZeniMax and Bandai Namco are in breach of EU anti-trust laws
News
Apr 8th, 2019
REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry
Median hourly wage gap widens by 4.78 per cent, mean figure shows four per cent broadening
News
Apr 4th, 2019
SuperData is launching a digital game forecasting tool
The Forecaster can predict metrics such as MAUs, revenue and in-game spending
News
Apr 4th, 2019
Epic's Sweeney says store exclusivity decisions down publishers and developers following Borderlands 3 deal
News
Apr 3rd, 2019
GameStop points to Apex Legends and Fortnite driving digital currency sales
Digital receipts up 16.5 per cent year-on-year and this is a large factor
News
Apr 3rd, 2019
The making of Anthem sounds like the perfect triple-A development storm
New report goes behind the scenes on BioWare and EA's troubled sci-fi project
Industry Icon
Apr 2nd, 2019
Why investors including Tencent put $3.6m behind these CCP vets' new studio
"It was fairly easy to raise money because of our track record in the industry"
Job News
Apr 1st, 2019
More game workers have lost their jobs in first quarter of 2019 than in all of 2018
Close to 1,500 people have been made unemployed in the first three months of the year
News
Apr 8th, 2019
European Commission says games firms including Valve, ZeniMax and Bandai Namco are in breach of EU anti-trust laws
News
Apr 8th, 2019
REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry
Median hourly wage gap widens by 4.78 per cent, mean figure shows four per cent broadening
News
Apr 4th, 2019
SuperData is launching a digital game forecasting tool
The Forecaster can predict metrics such as MAUs, revenue and in-game spending
News
Apr 4th, 2019
Epic's Sweeney says store exclusivity decisions down publishers and developers following Borderlands 3 deal
News
Apr 3rd, 2019
GameStop points to Apex Legends and Fortnite driving digital currency sales
Digital receipts up 16.5 per cent year-on-year and this is a large factor
News
Apr 3rd, 2019
The making of Anthem sounds like the perfect triple-A development storm
New report goes behind the scenes on BioWare and EA's troubled sci-fi project
Industry Icon
Apr 2nd, 2019
Why investors including Tencent put $3.6m behind these CCP vets' new studio
"It was fairly easy to raise money because of our track record in the industry"
Job News
Apr 1st, 2019
More game workers have lost their jobs in first quarter of 2019 than in all of 2018
Close to 1,500 people have been made unemployed in the first three months of the year
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