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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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Mar 27th, 2025
PowerWash Simulator reaches 17m players
In the last 11 months the title has attracted another five million users
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Mar 27th, 2025
Tencent backs new Ubisoft subsidiary
The Chinese giant will own 25 per cent of this new... thing?
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Mar 26th, 2025
Snail Games blames marketing team for Ark: Aquatica AI trailer
“They took our assets and then ran them through an AI to animate them"
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Mar 26th, 2025
Here's why CD Projekt isn't using gen AI for Witcher 4
"To be honest, [it] is quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership"
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Mar 26th, 2025
Sales revenue dips at CD Projekt for 2024, but profitability has increased
Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty were responsible for the majority of sales revenue
News
Mar 25th, 2025
Report: Publishers preparing to bump games to miss GTA 6
“We don’t want to be anywhere near that. We are working up multiple different plans for our titles"

PowerWash Simulator reaches 17m players
In the last 11 months the title has attracted another five million users

Tencent backs new Ubisoft subsidiary
The Chinese giant will own 25 per cent of this new... thing?

Snail Games blames marketing team for Ark: Aquatica AI trailer
“They took our assets and then ran them through an AI to animate them"

Here's why CD Projekt isn't using gen AI for Witcher 4
"To be honest, [it] is quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership"

Sales revenue dips at CD Projekt for 2024, but profitability has increased
Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty were responsible for the majority of sales revenue

Report: Publishers preparing to bump games to miss GTA 6
“We don’t want to be anywhere near that. We are working up multiple different plans for our titles"
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