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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List Jan 18th, 2019

Everything you need to know about the content at PC Connects London 2019

The second ever PC Connects London is kicking off on Monday, with two days of big names and speakers taking to the stage on January 21st and 22nd

News Jan 18th, 2019

Netflix views Fortnite as bigger threat than Game of Thrones maker HBO

Streaming giant admits the free-to-play behemoth is a competitor for its audience

Feature Jan 17th, 2019

Editor's Choice: Five talks you have to check out at PC Connects London 2019

The must-see sessions at this year's show

News Jan 17th, 2019

Nexon is officially up for sale

Activision, EA, Disney and Tencent are listed as interested parties.

Feature Jan 17th, 2019

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Philippe Erwin, Robot Cache

Ahead of PC Connects London 2019 on January 21st and 22nd we are catching up with some of the big names that we have on-stage at the show.

News Jan 17th, 2019

EA claims it is "fully commited" to the Star Wars IP

Follows report of Vancouver studio's project being given the chop

News Jan 16th, 2019

SuperData: $35.7bn was spent on digital PC games in 2018, Fortnite made more money in one year than any game ever

$120bn revenue generated by the global market in total

News Jan 16th, 2019

Updated: Unity changes terms of service again, Improbable games allowed back on the platform

"But we do not consider them a partner, and cannot vouch for how their service works with Unity as we have no insight into their technology or how they run their business"

News Jan 16th, 2019

Fortnite had a pretty massive security flaw until really recently

Hackers could access accounts without login info, issue fixed now

Job News Jan 16th, 2019

There's a new GM over at GameMaker Studio firm YoYo Games

“With a talented team of true innovators, I’m excited to take up the mantle of General Manager at YoYo Games and evolve GameMaker to the next level of 2D games development"

News Jan 16th, 2019

Hitman developer IO Interactive opens office in Sweden

We will expand IOI to join a buzzing game developer community and bring our own unique IOI culture to this amazing town”

News Jan 16th, 2019

Frontier reveals Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution have sold 2m copies each

While Elite Dangerous has hit three million unit sales

News Jan 16th, 2019

Activision Blizzard investors start fraud investigation following Bungie deal

No details into specific of the inquiry

Feature Jan 16th, 2019

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Christopher Kassulke, Handy Games

Ahead of PC Connects London 2019 on January 21st and 22nd we are catching up with some of the big names that we have on-stage at the show

News Jan 16th, 2019

Report: EA cans Star Wars game in development at its Vancouver studio

Smaller-scale title now apparently in the works for late 2020 release

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