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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Job News Jan 26th, 2018

New Year New Job - What does an assistant producer do? Team17's Hollie Emery takes us behind the scenes

Team17 assistant producer Hollie Emery talks about her role at the indie games label

Profile Jan 26th, 2018

Two years on, how is Spike Chunsoft's new PC games business going?

Having focused on console for its first four years, the Japanese publisher has dipped its toes into a new and lucrative market

News Jan 26th, 2018

There's a Minecraft-esque spin off for Ark: Survival Evolved on the way

Snail Games handling development duties, game to launch in Early Access in March

News Jan 25th, 2018

Danganronpa publisher Spike Chunsoft vows to bring more new games to Steam

After two years of ports and remakes, the Japanese firm plans to release new titles

News Jan 25th, 2018

It looks like companies can stream their games via Steam

SteamSpy spots Devolver broadcasting Red Strings Club

Job News Jan 25th, 2018

New Year New Job - Top PR tips from Frontier Developments' Daniela Pietrosanu

Having worked at board game firm Esdevium, games PR specialists Premier, Daniela Pietrosanu was recently hired by Elite Dangerous and Screamride studio Frontier

Job News Jan 25th, 2018

PUBG Corp to set up shop in Amsterdam next month

Half the studio focused on development; other half handling the business side of things

Indie Interview Jan 24th, 2018

Life after Early Access – Genital Jousting's journey to release

"Early Access gives us an opportunity to gauge player interest"

News Jan 24th, 2018

Digital security specialist Irdeto snaps up anti-tamper firm Denuvo

Duo looking to expand their security offering and audience in one fell swoop

News Jan 22nd, 2018

Minecraft saw 74m monthly active users in December

144m copies sold across all platforms, Marketplace saw its strongest month also

News Jan 22nd, 2018

Early Access CCG Slay the Spire shoots to second place in Steam Top Ten

Human: Fall Flat takes third place again as sales close in on two millon

The PC Pulse Jan 19th, 2018

What will the biggest PC games trend of 2018 be? The experts speak

2017 was perhaps one of the most interesting years in the PC games space, as well as the industry at large, in recent memory - but what comes next?

Success Story Jan 19th, 2018

Studio MDHR takes us behind the scenes on the two million-selling Cuphead

"If you have a little bit of business sense and you pour your hearts into a project, then a fraction of success should follow"

News Jan 19th, 2018

More than ten million people tuned into Overwatch League's first week

First day saw peak of 437,000 people across official partner Twitch and MLG

News Jan 19th, 2018

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition launches next month

Multiplayer beta to be rolled out at the end of January

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A Maze 2025	Europe	May 8th
PAX East 2025	North America	May 8th
IndieGameBusiness Deep Dive 2025		May 14th
Guadalindie 2025	Europe	May 16th
Dreamhack Shanghai 2025	Asia	May 16th
Open Game Fest 2025	Asia	May 17th
Digital Dragons 2025	Europe	May 18th
MomoCon 2025	North America	May 22nd

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