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 Feb 27th, 2018

PUBG and Fortnite made more than $200m in digital revenue this January

Premium PC spending up 24 per cent year-on-year

News Feb 27th, 2018

Roblox and YouTuber at odds over $150,000 fee

Game platform claims she did not earn digital currency legitimately

Feature Feb 27th, 2018

Remedy: "Triple-A single player game experiences are not dead"

The Finnish studio talks the perceived death of single-player games in the triple-A space, working with publishers from around the world and why it decided to IPO

News Feb 27th, 2018

Bethesda was Metacritic's top 'major' publisher in 2017

Binding of Isaac and Cave Story+ outfit Nicalis takes 'mid-size' crown

News Feb 26th, 2018

Metal Gear Survive developers leave hidden messages in the game

It would seem that employees at Konami have some stuff they want to say about the publisher's fallout with developer and auteur Hideo Kojima

News Feb 26th, 2018

Riot Games details League of Legends loot box odds

Follows Star Wars Battlefront II drama

Job News Feb 26th, 2018

Football Manager firm Sports Interactive hires Disney vet Carroll as first COO

"A COO is something that Sega has been telling me that I've needed for a few years now," studio chief Jacobson says

News Feb 26th, 2018

New European digital charts debuting in France

First of 42 European regions to get ISFE's new rankings

News Feb 26th, 2018

Kingdom Come: Deliverance holds Steam second place as Stellaris Apocalypse expansion debuts at No.3

Hunt Showdown from Crytek charts in fourth position

The PC Pulse Feb 23rd, 2018

20 indie games to keep an eye on in 2018

With the triple-A games market making so much noise and throw millions into marketing budgets, smaller titles can easily get lost.

News Feb 23rd, 2018

Discord courts esports teams and communities with additions to verified server programme

Teams from the Overwatch and pro-gaming organisation Dreamhack on board

News Feb 23rd, 2018

Gamers have to shell out $10 to make a new save in Metal Gear Survive

Which is bold

News Feb 23rd, 2018

Trump says America needs video games ratings after blaming them for gun crime

US commander in chief rambles about ratings system its games industry has had since 1994

News Feb 22nd, 2018

Half-Life's Gordon Freeman is coming to Final Fantasy XV

Pre-order bonus for the Windows Edition

Job News Feb 22nd, 2018

Troy Baker and Emily O'Brien join Kojima's Death Stranding cast

Joining Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro and Mads Mikkelsen on the strange project

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