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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 5th, 2018
Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition cracked before it's even out, report claims
Another week, another bad news story for anti-tamper firm Denuvo
Profile
Mar 2nd, 2018
How has Battalion 1944's launch gone? Bulkhead's Joe Brammer tells us all
It's been just over a month since Battalion 1944 launched into Early Access
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
20m people have played The Division in the last two years
Ubisoft notes that this is twice the size of the population of Sweden
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
The UK spent £5.11bn on video games in 2017
Digital and online games raked in £1.6bn, while PC hardware was up 51 per cent
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
Trump reportedly inviting video game firms to discuss school violence because he can't/won't blame guns
Indie Interview
Mar 1st, 2018
"None of us had ever made a game before" - Phantom 8 takes us behind the scenes on supernatural shooter Past Cure
Managing director and producer Simon Gerdesmann tells us more
News
Mar 1st, 2018
AMD might be fighting cryptocurrency miners with prebuilt PC GPU Far Cry 5 offers
News
Mar 1st, 2018
Twitch Prime users are receiving free Fortnite outfits
Skins and emotes given away to people subscribing to Twitch's premium service
Success Story
Feb 28th, 2018
'Human: Fall Flat shows that releasing a game is just a lottery - anyone can play but you can't plan on winning'
Developer Tomas Sakalauska on how the physics-based title broke 1.7m sales
News
Mar 5th, 2018
Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition cracked before it's even out, report claims
Another week, another bad news story for anti-tamper firm Denuvo
Profile
Mar 2nd, 2018
How has Battalion 1944's launch gone? Bulkhead's Joe Brammer tells us all
It's been just over a month since Battalion 1944 launched into Early Access
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
20m people have played The Division in the last two years
Ubisoft notes that this is twice the size of the population of Sweden
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
The UK spent £5.11bn on video games in 2017
Digital and online games raked in £1.6bn, while PC hardware was up 51 per cent
News
Mar 2nd, 2018
Trump reportedly inviting video game firms to discuss school violence because he can't/won't blame guns
Indie Interview
Mar 1st, 2018
"None of us had ever made a game before" - Phantom 8 takes us behind the scenes on supernatural shooter Past Cure
Managing director and producer Simon Gerdesmann tells us more
News
Mar 1st, 2018
AMD might be fighting cryptocurrency miners with prebuilt PC GPU Far Cry 5 offers
News
Mar 1st, 2018
Twitch Prime users are receiving free Fortnite outfits
Skins and emotes given away to people subscribing to Twitch's premium service
Success Story
Feb 28th, 2018
'Human: Fall Flat shows that releasing a game is just a lottery - anyone can play but you can't plan on winning'
Developer Tomas Sakalauska on how the physics-based title broke 1.7m sales
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