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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Interviews & Opinion Sep 20th, 2018

How Trion made Trove a success in China and Japan

CEO Scott Hartsman tells us how it has adapted the game for Asian markets, as well as how Defiance 2050 and Rift are doing

News Sep 20th, 2018

Rocket League has attracted 10m new players since start of 2018

Car football title hits 50m total player count - but we don't know how well it has sold

News Sep 20th, 2018

THQ Nordic has bought the Alone in the Dark IP from Atari

In addition to the Act of War franchise

Job News Sep 19th, 2018

Improbable sets up new Edmonton office with BioWare vet Aaryn Flynn at the helm

"SpatialOS is going to transform how people make and play games, and with this new office we want to help that to happen"

News Sep 19th, 2018

France is fining Valve and Ubisoft over refund policies

Combined $382.227 penalty

News Sep 19th, 2018

Australian study reports loot boxes "psychologically akin to gambling"

"They may therefore condition gamers to require the excitement associated with gambling , leading to problem gambling"

News Sep 19th, 2018

Uncensored game Negligee: Love Stories blocked from sale in 28 countries after finally releasing on Steam

"If we release a game in a country where the content is illegal or could be considered illegal then potentially we could suffer fines and penalties and even legal action by those countries"

News Sep 19th, 2018

Mastercard comes on board as League of Legends global sponsor

Big non-endemic firm puts money behind Riot

News Sep 19th, 2018

Survival title Scum hits 1m sales

Early buyers rewarded with golden handgun

Job News Sep 19th, 2018

Capcom closes Dead Rising studio in Vancouver

Financial loses offset by "robust" performance of Monster Hunter World on PC

News Sep 18th, 2018

Record-breaking 1,300 delegates attended Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018

Over 1,300 delegates representing more than 620 companies attended show

News Sep 18th, 2018

CD Projekt RED ditches Steam for new Witcher games Gwent and Thronebreaker

Both launching on October 23rd on GOG

Interviews & Opinion Sep 18th, 2018

Why Wargaming is setting up shop in the UK

Boss Sean Decker tells us more

Interviews & Opinion Sep 18th, 2018

Three years and more than 28m players later, what has Wargaming learnt running World of Warships?

European publisher director Rajeev Girdhar talks running a service-based game, how the team approaches free-to-play and working across multiple platforms

News Sep 18th, 2018

Updated: LawBreakers servers have been taken online

Two months after the game was axed

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A Maze 2025	Europe	May 8th
PAX East 2025	North America	May 8th
IndieGameBusiness Deep Dive 2025		May 14th
Guadalindie 2025	Europe	May 16th
Dreamhack Shanghai 2025	Asia	May 16th
Open Game Fest 2025	Asia	May 17th
Digital Dragons 2025	Europe	May 18th
MomoCon 2025	North America	May 22nd

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