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 Mar 8th, 2018

One week after release H1Z1 is going free-to-play

Developer Daybreak attempts to broaden appeal as firm doubles down on battle royale esports

News Mar 8th, 2018

Video games will not be a scape goat for gun violence, says IGDA

"Making video games, or any form of media-a scapegoat for consistently refusing to even CONSIDER the reasonable, rational firearm restrictions Americans want and deserve isn't fooling anyone."

Interviews & Opinion Mar 8th, 2018

Why Kongregate is taking on Steam with new PC games platform Kartridge

CEO Emily Greer talks discovery, curation and how the firm is getting developers on board

News Mar 7th, 2018

Playdead has partnered with sex doll firm for Inside special edition in pretty fun PR stunt

Well, this is certainly one way of getting press attention

Job News Mar 7th, 2018

Ubisoft doubling down on The Division with new hires

Is developer Massive Entertainment planning a sequel to the 2016 or looking to expand on the MMO

News Mar 7th, 2018

72.2 per cent of indie devs prefer to publish on Steam, GameMaker firm Yo Yo reports

Second place goes to Itch.io

News Mar 7th, 2018

There are more reports of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launching this year

Activision doesn't know how Roman numerals work

News Mar 6th, 2018

Kongregate launches Steam competitor Kartridge

PC platform rolling out in the summer

Feature Mar 6th, 2018

From premium to free-to-play and back again: Why Trion Worlds keeps making changes to Rift's business model

CEO Scott Hartsman tells us about the free-to-play title's brand new premium service, Rift Prime

News Mar 6th, 2018

Rumour claims Grand Theft Auto 6 will be out in 2021 or 2022

Set in Vice City with franchise first female lead

News Mar 6th, 2018

ESA confirms Trump meeting to discuss video games and gun violence

Looks like the invite has finally arrived and that the commander-in-chief wasn't flying by the seat of his pants for once. Definitely.

Profile Mar 5th, 2018

Inside Track - Introducing Sega and nDreams vet Dan Sheridan's new venture SheriMedia

"I founded SheriMedia to provide the industry with an agency-like service for community management, social media and influencer marketing"

News Mar 5th, 2018

Why the last year has been the best and worst of times for H1Z1

In 2017, the battle royale market leader lost its place as PUBG and Fortnite launched and dominated the sector just as H1Z1 was about to release

News Mar 5th, 2018

Ubisoft beefs up Rainbow Six: Siege ban system to fight homophobes and racists

“Any language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment is forbidden.”

News Mar 5th, 2018

Daybreak says most esports tournaments are just marketing events, insists H1Z1 Pro League is different

"It's very player-focused. It's not just a marketing spend to get attention. It's really designed to be a very watchable experience."

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