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 Aug 8th, 2023

Square Enix saw 14% increase in Q1 sales

Firm brought in ¥85.6 billion ($602 million) for the three months ending June 30th

News Aug 8th, 2023

New Zealand latest country to approve Microsoft Activision deal

Now 41 countries have given the merger the nod

News Aug 8th, 2023

CHARTS: Baldur's Gate 3 dethrones CSGO to take Steam No.1

The RPG has already hit a peak concurrent player record of over 814k

Job News Aug 7th, 2023

Newzoo promotes Emma McDonald to COO

"It is very encouraging and inspiring to see how she has developed into a senior leader driving value to the company in many ways"

News Aug 7th, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian vows to remain independent

Vincke says he is "always flattered" by speculation his company is going to be bought by Microsoft

News Aug 7th, 2023

Report: Valve cracking down on monetisation of Dota Workshop games

"As you are aware, the license provided for the Dota Workshop tools is strictly non-commercial"

News Aug 4th, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 closing in on 500k concurrent players on Steam

"It’s hard to express how much love went into creating Baldur’s Gate 3"

News Aug 4th, 2023

Gem Capital sets aside $50m for Eastern Europe game studios

Organisation is eying up projects on a variety of different platforms

News Aug 3rd, 2023

Twitch bans CS:GO skin gambling promo during streams

Platform now prohibits users from promoting or taking sponsorship from skin gambling outfits

News Aug 3rd, 2023

Arm aiming for $60bn-plus valuation after IPO

Initial public offering set for September

Job News Aug 3rd, 2023

Striking Distance lays off 32 members of staff

That's about a fifth of the studio's employees

News Aug 2nd, 2023

Take-Two execs see pay double

CEO Zelnick and president Slatoff to earn a combined $72.3 million in compensation

News Aug 2nd, 2023

Jedi Survivor and FIFA drive Q1 growth at EA

Company reports a 21 per cent increase in net bookings

News Aug 2nd, 2023

Hasbro says Activision Transformers games have not been lost

Toy giant says previous comments were "made in error"

News Aug 1st, 2023

Hasbro claims Activision can't find Transformers game hard drives

Toy giant reckons they'd be a good Game Pass addition

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