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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
Sep 20th, 2017
Steam adds graphs to user reviews, hopes that this will solve review bomb woes
Blog post highlights the precarious position Valve has left itself in
Indie Interview
Sep 19th, 2017
Hotline Miami, Akira and Polish history: Reikon tells us about cyberpunk action game Ruiner
News
Sep 19th, 2017
Deceit dev Automaton raises $10m, teams up with Improbable for new project
Once again, the SpatialOS firm steps in to help a small team do an ambitious MMO
Job News
Sep 19th, 2017
Bossa hires ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek
Portal and Half Life Episodes One and Two scribe joins East London studio
News
Sep 18th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones DOTA 2 with 1.3m peak concurrent player count
Title has sold 10m units and doesn't look like it's slowing down yet
News
Sep 18th, 2017
Kickstarter RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 debuts in second place in Steam Top Ten
Title boasts 85k peak concurrent players after raising more than $2m on the crowd-funding platform
News
Sep 15th, 2017
PlayStack explains its end-to-end publishing model
After publishing mobile and VR releases, the publisher has some PC projects in the work
News
Sep 20th, 2017
Steam adds graphs to user reviews, hopes that this will solve review bomb woes
Blog post highlights the precarious position Valve has left itself in
Indie Interview
Sep 19th, 2017
Hotline Miami, Akira and Polish history: Reikon tells us about cyberpunk action game Ruiner
News
Sep 19th, 2017
Deceit dev Automaton raises $10m, teams up with Improbable for new project
Once again, the SpatialOS firm steps in to help a small team do an ambitious MMO
Job News
Sep 19th, 2017
Bossa hires ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek
Portal and Half Life Episodes One and Two scribe joins East London studio
News
Sep 18th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones DOTA 2 with 1.3m peak concurrent player count
Title has sold 10m units and doesn't look like it's slowing down yet
News
Sep 18th, 2017
Kickstarter RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 debuts in second place in Steam Top Ten
Title boasts 85k peak concurrent players after raising more than $2m on the crowd-funding platform
News
Sep 15th, 2017
PlayStack explains its end-to-end publishing model
After publishing mobile and VR releases, the publisher has some PC projects in the work
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