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 Jan 2nd, 2018

Key reseller site GamesDeal now lets consumers gamble for game codes

People can now pay below lower prices but there's only a 50 per cent chance they'll get the game they want

News Jan 2nd, 2018

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds crosses 3m concurrent player barrier

Title reached 3.1m people at peak

News Jan 2nd, 2018

Star Citizen 3.0 Alpha update finally rolled out

"In short, it’s a big update that lays the foundation for larger developments down the road"

News Jan 2nd, 2018

PUBG, Rocket League, Divinity, GTA V and Witcher 3 among top-grossing Steam games of 2017

Steam has revealed which games made the most money on its platform in 2017, kind of.

News Jan 2nd, 2018

Surprise, surprise - Playerunknown's Battlegrounds ends 2017 in Steam top spot

Divinity: Original Sin 2 and They Are Billions chart in Top Ten despite little to no Steam Sale price reduction

Job News Jan 2nd, 2018

Share your insight for PCGamesInsider.biz's New Year New Job

It's a new year and for some people that might mean a new start and a desire to switch up your career

News Dec 22nd, 2017

That's all folks – see you in 2018

It's been a fantastic year of the PC games market – but it's time we all took a break, isn't it?

News Dec 22nd, 2017

Steam bandwidth increases four times following Playerunknown's Battlegrounds 1.0 release

60 per cent of title's playerbase is in China

News Dec 22nd, 2017

Activision pulls Transformers titles and Legend of Korra from Steam

Same thing happened to Ninja Turtles, Spider-Man and Deadpool games in previous years

Profile Dec 21st, 2017

PCGamesInsider.biz Games of 2017 - The titles that defined the last year in the PC games market

Come check out the titles that we think have made 2017 what it was

News Dec 21st, 2017

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has been downloaded 30m times

Battle royale game has sold around ten million units in six weeks

News Dec 21st, 2017

Cuphead smashes 2m sales barrier

1930s-styled indie run-and-gun title goes double platinum after just under 12 weeks

Success Story Dec 21st, 2017

Raw Fury: "2018 is going to be the Year of Fury"

Before the Christmas break, we caught up with CEO Jonas Antonsson to find out a bit about the thinking behind the publisher's recent funding round and to pick his brains about the indie publishing market

News Dec 21st, 2017

PC games made $32.2bn globally in 2017

Rise of 1.4 per cent year-on-year

News Dec 20th, 2017

Troubled peripherals firm Mad Catz might be back

It appears that someone might have bought the company's name and assets

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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
GenCon 2025	North America	Jul 31st
ChinaJoy 2025	Asia	Jul 31st
SIGGRAPH 2025	North America	Aug 10th

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