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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Feature Mar 8th, 2019

Teazelcat's Jodie Azhar: "I would have benefited a lot from being taught to be more self-assured when I know I’m right about something"

Today is International Women's Day and to mark the occasion, we have decided to highlight some of the incredible women working in the games industry

Job News Mar 8th, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Here are where 209 jobs were cut in Blizzard's US business

We now know just where layoffs have been made in the Overwatch firm's American workforce

News Mar 7th, 2019

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings

But EA and Respawn's battle royale game is still wildly popular

Feature Mar 7th, 2019

Boxing clever: Contact Sales boss Stallibrass talks the simulation market, its indie business and the digital transition

Oh, and the UK firm reckons its business could increase by 30 per cent this year!

News Mar 7th, 2019

Intel: Cloud tech will expand what games can be made and how many people are playing them

Chip firm is the latest to jump on the hype train

News Mar 7th, 2019

Epic, Take-Two's Private Division, ex-ESA president Gallagher, Super Evil Megacorp, Bandai Namco and Chet Faliszek, Super Evil Megacorp among first PC Connects Seattle 2019 speakers

And more are yet to be announced for the May 13th event!

News Mar 7th, 2019

Valve says it will not distribute rape game due to "unknown costs and risks"

Company gives a bit more insight into its open platform policy for Steam

News Mar 6th, 2019

Valve frustrated over Steam devs abusing Popular Upcoming list

But firm says there's a solution on the way

List Mar 6th, 2019

Here are three videos from PC Connects London 2019's Digital Discovery track

How to survive on Steam, how to market your game and what the landscape for buying and selling games is in 2019

News Mar 6th, 2019

Eve Online maker CCP teams up with cloud games firm Hadean

Duo have made 10,000 player deathmatch player tech demo together

News Mar 6th, 2019

Another law firm is looking to join class action against Activision Blizzard over Bungie breakup

New York's Kuznicki Law is the latest to get in on the action

News Mar 5th, 2019

Contact Sales boss expects 60 per cent of its sales to be digital by end of 2019

Firm's MD Robert Stallibrass says that "more than 60 per cent" of its business is physical

News Mar 5th, 2019

Rape game submitted to Steam

But don't worry, "the baby killing scene" has been cut

News Mar 4th, 2019

THQ Nordic's Wingefors issues apology for last week's ill-judged 8chan AMA

"I condemn all unethical content this website stands for. Even if no one within the THQ Nordic Group would ever endorse such content, I realise simply appearing there gave an implicit impression that we did"

News Mar 4th, 2019

Activision details how much Bungie paid for Destiny publishing rights

It looks like the developer paid up to $164m for the right to release its game

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Dreamhack Shanghai 2025	Asia	May 16th
Guadalindie 2025	Europe	May 16th
Open Game Fest 2025	Asia	May 17th
Digital Dragons 2025	Europe	May 18th
MomoCon 2025	North America	May 22nd
PlayX4 2025	Asia	May 22nd
DreamHack Dallas 2025	North America	May 23rd
Norwich Games Festival 2025	Europe	May 26th

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