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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 4th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds developer addresses server and connection woes
Sheer number of concurrent players causing big troubles for the battle royale title
News
Oct 4th, 2017
League of Legends studio Riot fires employee over controversial comments
Outburst about toxic streamer ends with developer losing his job
Profile
Oct 3rd, 2017
"Now is a time for change": What Housemarque learnt from Nex Machina's less-than-stellar release
News
Oct 3rd, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds faces review bombing from Chinese audience
And you can watch this take place with Valve's new review graphs
News
Oct 2nd, 2017
Blizzard's Kaplan: Dealing with Overwatch community is 'downright scary and intimidating'
Director shows just how difficult dealing with toxic elements of the fandom can be
Indie Interview
Oct 2nd, 2017
How I learnt to stop worrying and love the Bomb: Runner Duck on its FTL-style WW2 game Bomber Crew
Why two developers ditched mobile free-to-play to make a procedural game about WorlD War Two bombers
News
Oct 2nd, 2017
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds now has its own PUBG Corp company, has sold 13m copies
News
Sep 29th, 2017
Cheating and friendship cause issues for $20k RuneScape tournament
Jagex has released a statement following Deadman final promising it has learnt from the event
News
Oct 4th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds developer addresses server and connection woes
Sheer number of concurrent players causing big troubles for the battle royale title
News
Oct 4th, 2017
League of Legends studio Riot fires employee over controversial comments
Outburst about toxic streamer ends with developer losing his job
Profile
Oct 3rd, 2017
"Now is a time for change": What Housemarque learnt from Nex Machina's less-than-stellar release
News
Oct 3rd, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds faces review bombing from Chinese audience
And you can watch this take place with Valve's new review graphs
News
Oct 2nd, 2017
Blizzard's Kaplan: Dealing with Overwatch community is 'downright scary and intimidating'
Director shows just how difficult dealing with toxic elements of the fandom can be
Indie Interview
Oct 2nd, 2017
How I learnt to stop worrying and love the Bomb: Runner Duck on its FTL-style WW2 game Bomber Crew
Why two developers ditched mobile free-to-play to make a procedural game about WorlD War Two bombers
News
Oct 2nd, 2017
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds now has its own PUBG Corp company, has sold 13m copies
News
Sep 29th, 2017
Cheating and friendship cause issues for $20k RuneScape tournament
Jagex has released a statement following Deadman final promising it has learnt from the event
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