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 Sep 20th, 2017

EA’s Andrew Wilson joins Intel board of directors

“Andrew understands first-hand how technology and data create opportunity with his transformation of EA from offline packaged goods to a leader in online digital services"

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

Narrative designer Magdalena Tomkowicz tells us how

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

News Sep 19th, 2017

Gearbox winds down work on Battleborn

Creative director Randy Varnell announces end of updates for the shooter, but servers to remain online for 'foreseeable future'

News Sep 19th, 2017

505 Games announces partnership with Might & Magic and Tropico 6 studio Limbic

“The team at Limbic is pushing the limits of the online multiplayer survival genre, putting a fresh spin on an emergent game world and an innovative character progression"

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 19th, 2017

Divinity: Original Sin 2 has sold nearly 500,000 copies

Title reaches half million mark after just a few years; it took its predecessor two or three months to reach this milestone

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

Bleszinski: I have to keep LawBreakers alive

“I’m going to try and be less of a dick, honestly”

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

Job News Sep 15th, 2017

New president and CEO for Telltale Games

Zynga, EA and Criterion exec takes the top job at the narrative-focused firm

News Sep 15th, 2017

Report: Steam Direct sees releases double, but average sales and revenue dip

Data from Steam Spy highlights how Steam Direct has affected the market

News Sep 15th, 2017

No, someone wasn’t just refunded $45k for Star Citizen purchases

Looks like someone claimed $330 back and told some porkies

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

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