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 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

Interviews & Opinion Jan 15th, 2019

Why alcohol giant Jägermeister is giving video games a shot

Music manager Tom Carson tells us about the hangover merchant's first steps into our market

Feature Jan 15th, 2019

Here's what's on The PC Revolution track at PC Connects London 2019

This is the headline event for the show and will be taking a look at the future of the PC games space, examining the impact of new technologies, markets and trends that will shape the sector in the coming years

News Jan 15th, 2019

Galyonkin: Epic storefront could target younger audience than Steam

And only 40 per cent of that figure use it

Interviews & Opinion Jan 15th, 2019

New Year New Job - Creative Assembly's Agathe Pillot tells us about her role as a technical animator

As part of our New Year New Job content on PCGamesInsider.biz, we are catching up with people from around the industry to find out a bit more about what their role entails

News Jan 15th, 2019

Ico Partners: Successful video game Kickstarters raised $16m in 2018

Dip of eight per cent year-on-year

News Jan 15th, 2019

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Joe Brammer, Bulkhead Interactive

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 14th, 2019

Valve boasts 47m daily active users for Steam for 2018

90m people visited the platform every single month last year

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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
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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