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 Oct 11th, 2017

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has broken 2m concurrent players

To the surprise of literally no-one

News Oct 11th, 2017

OpenCritic and TotalBiscuit respond to loot box controversy

Review aggregator adds business model info, while YouTuber calls for ESRB to get involved

News Oct 10th, 2017

“Talking to players as a developer is scary and intimidating,” says ex-Riot employee

Aaron Rutledge opens up about the realities of dealing with a toxic community

News Oct 10th, 2017

Green Man Gaming launches local Latin America website

Retailer also launches 12 brand new currencies for its users to play with

News Oct 10th, 2017

PC games hardware revenue up by 23 per cent year-on-year in Europe

Revenue from Russia sowars 175 per cent, but UK saw growth of just 0.5 per cent

Job News Oct 10th, 2017

EA’s Shaun White joins eSports firm Gfinity

12-year EA vet moves to the pro-gaming organisation

News Oct 10th, 2017

Ninja Theory to donate all of today’s Hellblade sales to UK mental health charity

Rethink to receive all money from PC and PS4 sales

News Oct 10th, 2017

Report: There’s a new Overwatch title in development

Job listings point to new project in the game's universe

Profile Oct 10th, 2017

What Ubisoft has learnt from two years of Rainbow Six: Siege

Almost two years after Rainbow Six: Siege hit shelves, we catch up with Ubisoft’s premier ‘games as a service’ title

News Oct 9th, 2017

Blizzard updates Battle.net app with new social features

Beta for features live now

News Oct 9th, 2017

Cuphead rises to second place in Steam Top Ten

Eagerly-awaited indie title rises two places over the last week

News Oct 6th, 2017

Epic's Unreal Engine 4 has been optimised for battle royale games

Blog post outlines changes made to how maps and huge player numbers are handled with Epic's tech

News Oct 6th, 2017

Development vet Chris Avellone might be teasing new Fallout title

Pictures from the game maker's Facebook point to something new in the Fallout universe

Interviews & Opinion Oct 5th, 2017

Why Auroch is releasing a digital version of classic tabletop game Ogre

A digital version of the 1977 tabletop game classic is hitting shelves today. We catch up with production manager Nina Adams to find out more

News Oct 5th, 2017

Ubisoft to buy back 4m shares in attempt to fight Vivendi

Repurchased shares represent ten per cent of Ubisoft's stock and are to be canceled

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