Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Alex Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.

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News May 25th, 2022

Sniper Ghost Warrior series has shifted 13m copies to date

Contracts 2 has sold one million since June 2021

News May 25th, 2022

Activision Blizzard staff past and present form anti-discrimination committee

“My hope in joining the committee is that we don’t let the fervor die down until there is meaningful, long-lasting change"

News May 24th, 2022

Staff at Raven Software vote to form Game Workers Alliance union

This is the first time there's been major organisation at a US games firm

News May 24th, 2022

Indie publisher Firestoke scores $2.2m seed funding

“It’s a privilege to have the opportunity to work with such proven game-focused investment teams at this early stage,” firm's CEO and founder Farley said

News May 24th, 2022

Chinese PC games market hit $13.7bn in 2021

Sector brought in $45.5 billion in total

News May 24th, 2022

Report: Ubisoft would only sell for more than €60 per share

Though apparently €100 is also desired

News May 23rd, 2022

Report: GSC Game World continues work on Stalker 2

Studio has apparently relocated from Kyiv to Prague

News May 23rd, 2022

Early Access vampire title V Rising has sold over 500k copies to date

"Thank you all for joining us on this journey!"

News May 23rd, 2022

Report: EA has had acquisitions talks with Disney, Apple, NBCUniversal and Amazon

Company has apparently been "persistent in pursuing a sale" for some years

News May 23rd, 2022

CHARTS: V Rising sinks its fangs into No.1 on Steam

Early Access title dethrones Valve's Steam Deck hardware

News May 20th, 2022

VC Andreessen Horowitz opens new $600m games fund

Games Fund One is the firm's first pot dedicated to this market

Job News May 20th, 2022

NetEase Games snaps up PlayStation vet Wilson as EU PR boss

Comes as the Chinese firm places a greater focus on the West

News May 20th, 2022

Certain Affinity pledges to relocate staff out of states with restrictive healthcare

"It is appalling that states, including the CA headquarter's home state of Texas, are wading into what I consider personal healthy and privacy matters"

News May 20th, 2022

Hiro Capital invests in Skybound Entertainment

Sir Ian Livingstone joins the company's board

News May 19th, 2022

Virtuos has bought Vietnamese art studio Glass Egg

Firm to set up a new outfit in the country next month

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