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 Feb 8th, 2019

Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days

Developer Respawn boasts of one million concurrent player peak

News Feb 7th, 2019

Introversion has stepped away from Order of Magnitude, but the game's DNA lives on in next project

Title was announced in April 2018 but wasn't getting the team excited; new title "isn't a million miles away" from the sci-fi colony sim

News Feb 7th, 2019

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games

Ukranian developer is the seventh branch of the middleware and games firm to get the cut in five years

News Feb 7th, 2019

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store

Rockstar parent firm says it wants to be in as many places where consumers are as possible

News Feb 6th, 2019

Insurgency maker New World Interactive is opening a new studio in Canada

Will support on Sandstorm in future, as well as another unannounced title

News Feb 6th, 2019

Hi-Rez fires community manager arrested in child sex sting operation

One of 21 individuals nailed as part of Operation Interception

News Feb 6th, 2019

Report points to CD Projekt reaching settlement with Witcher author Sapkowski

Follows writer demanding $16m - or six per cent - of revenue generated by the video games series

News Feb 6th, 2019

Revenue up 240 per cent at Frontier, firm working on fourth IP

Firm has $51.2m in the bank, potentially to help launch its third-party publishing division

News Feb 6th, 2019

Microsoft Studios is now Xbox Game Studios

"2019 is going to be a great year for Xbox gamers everywhere"

News Feb 6th, 2019

Licensing is best model for Disney in games, CEO Iger says

Boss calls out its partners in the space, including EA, but fails to mention Star Wars Battlefront II launch PR disaster

News Feb 6th, 2019

EA: Respawn to launch new premium Titanfall title this year

New Plants vs Zombies and Need for Speed games on the way, publishing giant has "modest" expectations for Anthem live service... despite talking BioWare's new sci-fi MMO up a huge deal

News Feb 5th, 2019

Games Workshop looking to fix perception of Warhammer IP adaptations

"They are trying to find good developers to work with them and to make sure that the game we will do is good enough"

News Feb 5th, 2019

Microsoft readying SDK for Xbox Live cross-play on Switch and mobile

In part thanks to the Big M's acquisition of PlayFab in January 2018

News Feb 5th, 2019

Updated: Apex Legends had close to 3m unique users in first 24 hours

Developer Respawn says this is what the studio is working on for the time being

Job News Feb 5th, 2019

Take-Two setting up new Silicon Valley-based studio headed up by COD vet Michael Condrey

"I couldn’t be more excited, or thankful, to embark on this next step in my career."

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Develop: Brighton 2025	Europe	Jul 8th
TennoCon 2025	North America	Jul 18th
BitSummit 2025	Asia	Jul 18th
Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai 2025	Asia	Jul 30th
Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai 2025	Asia	Jul 30th
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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