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 Dec 11th, 2018

Devolver, BigBen and 1C among 12 new publishers selling games on blockchain-powered Robot Cache

22 publishers and over 700 titles on the platform now

News Dec 11th, 2018

Senior director at EA Ireland fired over alleged "dick" remarks

Director of global delivery service Grenet in court over

News Dec 11th, 2018

UK Parliament looking into rise of "immersive and addictive" tech

"We have the opportunity now to shape that development, setting an agenda that benefits our economy and how we spend our leisure time, while ensuring the right safeguards are built in"

Feature Dec 11th, 2018

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Chris Hassell, Ralph Creative

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

Job News Dec 11th, 2018

Former Sledgehammer boss Glen Schofield stepping down from Activision post this month

Was seemingly destined for an exec job at the publisher but it sure sounds like he's not done with game dev

News Dec 11th, 2018

Coffee Stain, Team17 and Double Damage Games pick Epic over Steam for new releases

Valve's platform second best for some firms launching their titles on the Fortnite company's launcher

News Dec 11th, 2018

Developers can win an Indie Showcase space at PC Connects London 2019 and demo their project in front of 2,500 members of the industry

An amazing chance to get your games in front of some of the industry’s most important and influential players from around the world. New closing date

Feature Dec 10th, 2018

The PC Revolution: Emerging tech could make it easier to make much more ambitious titles

Middleware like Unity opened up games development to a wider variety - and great number - of people before; now a new cocktail of emerging tech is going to do the same again

Job News Dec 10th, 2018

Strike Gamelabs' Darby joins Codemasters

Working on an unannounced triple-A IP

Feature Dec 10th, 2018

PC Connects London 2019 - Meet the Speakers - Max Pears, CD Projekt RED

"I am looking forward to the panels because it will be fantastic to see so many professionals points of views and hear others great thoughts"

Job News Dec 10th, 2018

Updated: H1Z1 maker DayBreak Game Company laid off 25 employees in December 2018

Lower than the 70 job losses rumoured at the end of last year

News Dec 10th, 2018

In-game ads coming to Street Fighter V tomorrow

Pushing skins, bundles and the Capcom Pro Tour

News Dec 10th, 2018

China now has an Online Games Ethics Committee

Body designed to moderate the content of new titles against the societal guidelines in the region

News Dec 7th, 2018

New PUBG map, Fortnite features, Dragon Age, Far Cry and Mortal Kombat titles headline The Game Awards 2018

Alongside new titles from Obsidian, Studio Wildcard, Hello Games and Supergiant, as well as more info about BioWare's next Dragon Age project

The PC Pulse Dec 7th, 2018

The PC Pulse: What were the most important trends in the PC games market in 2018?

As 2018 draws to a close, we decided to turn to our incredibly smart panel of PC games industry experts to see what the biggest trends and stories of the year were

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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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