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 Aug 17th, 2018

Turtle Beach doubles down on PC with new Atlas headset line

Firm trying to imitate console success in this sector

News Aug 17th, 2018

Nvidia reckons crypto is "immaterial" to its GPU revenue for rest of 2018

Hardware firm removes this sector from its financial outlook

News Aug 17th, 2018

It could take a while to get your game on Steam for the next few months

“We’re right in the middle of building some features into Steam for customers to be able to choose the type of products they see in the store,” Valve says

News Aug 16th, 2018

Games industry needs be better at catering for kids, Outright's Button-Brown says

"I think games need to take more responsibility"

News Aug 16th, 2018

Intel teases discrete GPUs for 2020 release

Follows Nvidia's big Turing news

News Aug 16th, 2018

Here's what you missed from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki's 2017 PC Games University track

Top talks from Alfred Nguyen, Joonas Turner, Jani Kahrama and an on-stage interview with Jussi Laakonen

News Aug 16th, 2018

Valve might be bringing Windows emulation to SteamOS

Could make life easier for studios

News Aug 16th, 2018

Nordisk Film Games puts $5.5m behind indie label Raw Fury

Follows acquisition of Avalanche Studios in May

News Aug 16th, 2018

Report: Realm Royale player base has dropped by 94 per cent since launch

Looks like people played it for just fortnight

Interviews & Opinion Aug 16th, 2018

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell"

Producer Andrew Parsons says that good releases will always have their day, even if it isn't on launch

News Aug 16th, 2018

THQ Nordic has 20 unannounced games in the work

Revenue up 878 per cent at the European publishing giant year-on-year for the first six months of fiscal 18/19 off back of Koch Media purchase

Interviews & Opinion Aug 15th, 2018

Why RuneScape giant Jagex is getting into publishing (again)

As the MMO passes $1bn in lifetime revenue, the Cambridge games firm is looking to share its insight into living games with new publishing division Jagex Partners

News Aug 15th, 2018

PC revenue down five per cent year-on-year for Tencent

Firm blames move to mobile, but boasts of strong League of Legends engagement in China

News Aug 15th, 2018

IGN removing 'pretty much everything' by disgraced journalist Filip Muicin following Dead Cells review scandal

Investigation yields unsurprising results

News Aug 15th, 2018

Here's what you missed from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki's 2017 PC Digital Discovery track

Top talks from Alexey Izvalov, Jussi Autio, Mariela Tzvetanova and our PC and marketing panel

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