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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 29th, 2018
Roll7 taking break from game development after handing Laser League development to 505
News
Aug 29th, 2018
Gamescom 2018 attracted 500,000 people to Cologne
15,000-person increase year-on-year, 31,200 trade visitors made it to this year's show
News
Aug 29th, 2018
Millions tune in for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal
Offical YouTube video boasts 4.7m views, concurrent high of 459,000 people on Twitch stream
News
Aug 29th, 2018
THQ Nordic has around $316m in liquid cash as it looks to make further purchases
Interviews & Opinion
Aug 28th, 2018
Why The Walking Dead firm Skybound has started publishing games
EMEA general manager Mark Stanger tells us what the company is looking to do in the games space
Interviews & Opinion
Aug 24th, 2018
Why getting a new Velocity game made is proving impossible for FuturLab
News
Aug 23rd, 2018
Schedule live for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki event, check out who is speaking from PC
News
Aug 23rd, 2018
Gamescom 2018 - RuneScape hitting $1bn is nice, but Jagex says its community is king
News
Aug 22nd, 2018
Gamescom 2018 - "There are going to be no school shooter games" - Robot Cache says its storefront is going to be curated
CEO Lee Jacobson also explains the company's approach to letting its users mine Ethereum
News
Aug 29th, 2018
Roll7 taking break from game development after handing Laser League development to 505
News
Aug 29th, 2018
Gamescom 2018 attracted 500,000 people to Cologne
15,000-person increase year-on-year, 31,200 trade visitors made it to this year's show
News
Aug 29th, 2018
Millions tune in for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal
Offical YouTube video boasts 4.7m views, concurrent high of 459,000 people on Twitch stream
News
Aug 29th, 2018
THQ Nordic has around $316m in liquid cash as it looks to make further purchases
Interviews & Opinion
Aug 28th, 2018
Why The Walking Dead firm Skybound has started publishing games
EMEA general manager Mark Stanger tells us what the company is looking to do in the games space
Interviews & Opinion
Aug 24th, 2018
Why getting a new Velocity game made is proving impossible for FuturLab
News
Aug 23rd, 2018
Schedule live for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki event, check out who is speaking from PC
News
Aug 23rd, 2018
Gamescom 2018 - RuneScape hitting $1bn is nice, but Jagex says its community is king
News
Aug 22nd, 2018
Gamescom 2018 - "There are going to be no school shooter games" - Robot Cache says its storefront is going to be curated
CEO Lee Jacobson also explains the company's approach to letting its users mine Ethereum
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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 |
| GenCon 2025 | North America | Jul 31st |
| ChinaJoy 2025 | Asia | Jul 31st |
| SIGGRAPH 2025 | North America | Aug 10th |
