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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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Improbable is done telling us about what SpatialOS can do; the cloud tech firm is now showing us

Tencent wants to take on Minecraft and Hearthstone
Chinese games giant reckons it has the next generation of sandbox games on its hands

Kartridge developers to keep 100 per cent of revenue on first $10,000 in sales indefinitely, says Kongregate
The early promotion offer meant to end in October has been extended

GOG introduces new social features
Friends, Feed, Profile and Games sections now available to users

The developer of BloodRayne Terminal Reality is suing Microsoft
Texas-based outfit reckons the big M has infringed patents on lighting and shadow graphics tech

Why Onebitbeyond wanted to make a roguelike title with broader appeal in Swords of Ditto

Price promotions see Dying Light and Darkest Dungeon back in the Steam Top Ten
It's been five years since Techland's zombie title launched and STILL people are buying it

Valve has bought Firewatch maker Campo Santo
Could be part of the Steam firm's renewed commitment to developing games
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