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 Jul 16th, 2018

It looks like scammers have been selling allowed to sell PC keys on Amazon

Reddit users find they cheap keys are in fact from another retailer

News Jul 16th, 2018

A typo sort of crippled Aliens: Colonials Marines' AI

Modders find critical error in how the game managed xenomorphs

News Jul 16th, 2018

INSIGHT - The Culling 2 has not got off to a great start - has the battle royale market already solidified following PUBG and Fortnite?

All time higher player count of 249, not even enough to fill five whole games

List Jul 13th, 2018

Six things we learnt at Develop:Brighton 2018

We're finally home from this year's Develop:Brighton and - having slept for many hours - want to share the top things we learnt at the conference

News Jul 12th, 2018

Tencent and PUBG are not messing about with cheaters and hackers

People arrested for making and selling hacks photographed by police

News Jul 11th, 2018

Microsoft: Making games more accessible is both the right thing to do and good for business

Mixer program manager and gaming and disability community lead Tara Voelker tells us what more needs to be done to help differently-abled people get into games

Job News Jul 10th, 2018

Keywords creates chief commercial and marketing roles as part of senior management switch up

EA vet Efremov is Keywords Studios' new CCO while Coke and Activision Blizzard alum Andrew Brown coming on as CMO

News Jul 9th, 2018

Ubisoft outlines further anti-cheat measures for Rainbow Six: Siege

Infrastructure being tested and new features added to make the game cleaner

News Jul 9th, 2018

Overwatch Pink Mercy skin and T-shirt raised $12.7m for Breast Cancer Research Foundation

More than $10m came from sales of the skin

Industry Icon Jul 9th, 2018

"People like weird shit" - Edmund McMillen takes us behind the scenes on The Binding of Isaac

How a small, weird project that was almost released for free became the developer's most successful project yet and why it has been supported for seven whole years

News Jul 9th, 2018

SteamSpy was briefly 100 per cent accurate and has released Steam's top-selling games

Unsurprisingly, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: GO and PUBG among the best-sellers

News Jul 9th, 2018

International version of Tencent's WeGame on the way

Set to launch in Hong Kong

Profile Jul 6th, 2018

SteamSpy's Galyonkin: 'I would love to see Valve's data solution come sooner rather than later'

The site's founder tells us why it's important to know how well games are selling on Steam and how his attempts to provide data have been going

News Jul 6th, 2018

Dead Island 2 is still in development, honest, say developers

Game was announced in 2014, has since moved to a different studio and we have barely heard a peep

News Jul 6th, 2018

French regulators say loot boxes aren't gambling but still require further investigation

Gambling body ARJEL calls for further examination

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Open Game Fest 2025	Asia	May 17th
Digital Dragons 2025	Europe	May 18th
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