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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
Mar 14th, 2019
Updated: Those rumours about Sony buying Take-Two are false - but should the PlayStation firm snap up the Grand Theft Auto giant?
News
Mar 11th, 2019
Updated: ERA "spend on access" figures for games include microtransactions as users do not own content
Trade body claims consumers parted with £2.25bn in 2018 for accessing, not owning games
News
Mar 11th, 2019
Artifact designer describes launch as "rocky"
Garfield and Elias from 3 Donkeys have contracted terminated with Valve
Interviews & Opinion
Mar 8th, 2019
Curve Digital's Buahin: 'We still have a way to go to dispel assumptions that women don't play games'
Industry Icon
Mar 8th, 2019
Brenda Romero: "Start coding tonight. Start making games. Don’t wait for college"
Job News
Mar 8th, 2019
BioWare vet Flynn is leading development on Improbable's first internal projects, SpatialOS firm has created a studio in London
Games being built on Epic's Unreal Engine 4, but aside from that details are scarce
Feature
Mar 8th, 2019
How Final Fantasy VII made Jade Leamcharaskul pursue a career in video games music
Interviews & Opinion
Mar 8th, 2019
How Colossal Order's Mariina Hallikainen became a game studio CEO right out of university
News
Mar 14th, 2019
Updated: Those rumours about Sony buying Take-Two are false - but should the PlayStation firm snap up the Grand Theft Auto giant?
News
Mar 11th, 2019
Updated: ERA "spend on access" figures for games include microtransactions as users do not own content
Trade body claims consumers parted with £2.25bn in 2018 for accessing, not owning games
News
Mar 11th, 2019
Artifact designer describes launch as "rocky"
Garfield and Elias from 3 Donkeys have contracted terminated with Valve
Interviews & Opinion
Mar 8th, 2019
Curve Digital's Buahin: 'We still have a way to go to dispel assumptions that women don't play games'
Industry Icon
Mar 8th, 2019
Brenda Romero: "Start coding tonight. Start making games. Don’t wait for college"
Job News
Mar 8th, 2019
BioWare vet Flynn is leading development on Improbable's first internal projects, SpatialOS firm has created a studio in London
Games being built on Epic's Unreal Engine 4, but aside from that details are scarce
Feature
Mar 8th, 2019
How Final Fantasy VII made Jade Leamcharaskul pursue a career in video games music
Interviews & Opinion
Mar 8th, 2019
How Colossal Order's Mariina Hallikainen became a game studio CEO right out of university
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