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 17th, 2018

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue

PC to be behind 37.3 per cent of total battle royale revenue this year

News Jul 17th, 2018

Report: Video game Kickstarters have raised $9.8m in 2018 so far

Lots of success to be had - if you're looking for $50,000 and $100,000

Industry Icon Jul 17th, 2018

Behind the scenes on Microsoft's E3 2018 spending spree - Matt Booty on why the Big M splashed so much cash on its first-party line-up

The recently-appointed CVP of Microsoft Studios shares why it bought the four developers it did and what the plan is for its new outfit The Initiative

News Jul 17th, 2018

Klang has raised $8.95m in Series A investment to fund MMO Seed

Total funding firm has raised clocks in at $13.95m

News Jul 17th, 2018

Busy 2018 release slate partly to blame for Crackdown 3's latest delay

Spencer takes the fall for super hero title being bumped, again

News Jul 17th, 2018

Report claims more than half of parents let children play 18-rated games

Childcare.co.uk of more than 2,000 parents yields startling but not surprising results

News Jul 17th, 2018

Valve continues to block adult games despite 'anything goes' Steam policy

Developers report titles being blocked as firm readies features that better controls what users see

News Jul 17th, 2018

Microsoft says it is very interested in mid-tier game developers at the moment

Follows a spending spree that saw the firm buy the sector's poster child, Ninja Theory, along with three other studios

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

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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
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GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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