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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
Aug 1st, 2018
The Steampocalypse: How the massive number of games on Steam has made the platform a hostile environment for devs
News
Jul 31st, 2018
Valve's lack of a quality threshold is damaging to developers and games, says Auroch's Rawlings
"I love Valve and what it does and I would urge them to take control of that situation."
News
Jul 30th, 2018
Ten reasons to come to Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018 in September
There's literally no excuse for not being at this year's show
News
Jul 30th, 2018
EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game
News
Jul 27th, 2018
One year on - 10 ways Fortnite has impacted the games market
How a survival-and-crafting-slash-battle-royale-after-the-fact title has affected the industry
News
Jul 27th, 2018
Quantic Dream loses lawsuit against former employee
Surely means bad news the studio in its suit against media that reported on working conditions
News
Jul 27th, 2018
China is now a Top Five region for Sega on Steam
Europe's EVP of publishing Clark on the meteoric rise of China

The Steampocalypse: How the massive number of games on Steam has made the platform a hostile environment for devs

Valve's lack of a quality threshold is damaging to developers and games, says Auroch's Rawlings
"I love Valve and what it does and I would urge them to take control of that situation."

Ten reasons to come to Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018 in September
There's literally no excuse for not being at this year's show

EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game

One year on - 10 ways Fortnite has impacted the games market
How a survival-and-crafting-slash-battle-royale-after-the-fact title has affected the industry

Quantic Dream loses lawsuit against former employee
Surely means bad news the studio in its suit against media that reported on working conditions

China is now a Top Five region for Sega on Steam
Europe's EVP of publishing Clark on the meteoric rise of China
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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 |