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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
Nov 15th, 2017
Blizzard throws shade at EA over Star Wars microtransaction woes
Twitter posts and video ads poke fun at that company's recent PR problems
Success Story
Nov 14th, 2017
How Digital Extremes grew Warframe's player base to 30m users
The Plains of Eidolon has helped the free-to-play title reach an even larger community
News
Nov 14th, 2017
EA cuts Hero cost in Star Wars Battlefront 2
Publishing giant once again doesn't fight back against the toxicity of its fanbase
News
Nov 14th, 2017
Hitman has 7m players, more content planned
Developer IO retains rights to Freedom Fighters as well as Hitman
News
Nov 13th, 2017
CD Projekt says it won’t be doing a new Witcher game any time soon
Company hopes Cyberpunk 2077 will be more successful than Wild Hunt
News
Nov 13th, 2017
EA's defence of Star Wars Battlefront 2 progression is now Reddit's most downvoted comment
News
Nov 10th, 2017
Development on Bossa’s Decksplash has ended
Test to gauge demand for title fails to hit target, game has been cancelled

Blizzard throws shade at EA over Star Wars microtransaction woes
Twitter posts and video ads poke fun at that company's recent PR problems

How Digital Extremes grew Warframe's player base to 30m users
The Plains of Eidolon has helped the free-to-play title reach an even larger community

EA cuts Hero cost in Star Wars Battlefront 2
Publishing giant once again doesn't fight back against the toxicity of its fanbase

Hitman has 7m players, more content planned
Developer IO retains rights to Freedom Fighters as well as Hitman

CD Projekt says it won’t be doing a new Witcher game any time soon
Company hopes Cyberpunk 2077 will be more successful than Wild Hunt

EA's defence of Star Wars Battlefront 2 progression is now Reddit's most downvoted comment

Development on Bossa’s Decksplash has ended
Test to gauge demand for title fails to hit target, game has been cancelled
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