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 13th, 2018

Alibaba wants esports at Olympic games, but nothing violent

“In our communication with the Olympics committee, we’ve come to have a better understanding of their values, which is to promote peace"

News Mar 13th, 2018

PUBG is third highest-grossing game ever on Steam

Valve chief Gabe Newell says the Chinese market is in part key to the project's success

News Mar 12th, 2018

PUBG Corp buys New York's MadGlory to work on community development tools

"We are excited and humbled to join the ranks of the PUBG Corporation and we look forward to helping shape the future of PUBG."

News Mar 12th, 2018

Homophobia, racism and revenge porn scandals rock Overwatch League

Players face bans and fines for misdeeds

Indie Interview Mar 12th, 2018

"We want to have our own identity" - Storm in a Teacup refutes Close to the Sun's similarities to BioShock

PR and marketing manager Eleonora Lucheroni tells us more about this art deco narrative title

Job News Mar 12th, 2018

Jagex: "We’re investing in the creation of brand new titles, both within the RuneScape universe and beyond"

Cambridge-based developer looking to fill eight roles

News Mar 12th, 2018

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 takes second place in Steam Top Ten

Meanwhile Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition debuts at No.3 spot

News Mar 9th, 2018

Nothing really happened at that Trump video game violence meeting

What was billed a showdown ended up being a rather calm fact-finding mission

Job News Mar 9th, 2018

BattleCry Studios is now Bethesda Austin

Was already owned by ZeniMax, so not quite the 'expansion' Bethesda has spun this as

News Mar 9th, 2018

Valve says it is making games again, DOTA 2 card title Artifact due this year

Chief Gabe Newell says the firm's software and hardware expertise could yield some interesting projects in the coming year

News Mar 8th, 2018

PUBG Corp outlines what 2018 will look like for Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - new map and other changes detailed

New map to launch next month on Test Server, wealth of additional changes revealed

News Mar 8th, 2018

Activision confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, set to launch in October

Releasing earlier than normal, presumably to combat competition from EA's Battlefield title

News Mar 8th, 2018

QA and localisation firm Testronic rolls out 50% Initiative to encourage more women in games

Designed to develop and further careers, too

News Mar 8th, 2018

Update: Ubisoft confirms The Division 2 is on the way, following accidental leak

Massive Entertainment heading up development again, first look at E3 2018

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

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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
Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai 2025	Asia	Jul 30th
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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