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 Oct 19th, 2021

Monster Hunter World hits 20m copies shipped

This is Capcom's best-selling game to date, with sales almost double that of second place, Resident Evil 7

News Oct 19th, 2021

Abandoned dev Blue Box hits out at death threats

Stems from belief that the studio is a front for a new Hideo Kojima game

News Oct 19th, 2021

Valve unveils which games will work on Steam Deck hardware

Firm will flag which titles are Verified to work on the upcoming console

News Oct 19th, 2021

IGDA dev survey shows unionisation level has doubled since 2019

12 per cent of workers are involved in a union

News Oct 18th, 2021

Montréal games scene has grown 8% over last decade

Economic promotion agency says that the industry is 15,000 people strong

News Oct 18th, 2021

Twitch says no user passwords exposed in colossal leak

Streaming giant also "confident" that credit card and bank info was not accessed

News Oct 18th, 2021

Valve says no to blockchain games and NFTs on Steam

And, of course, Epic has supported the controversial new business

News Oct 18th, 2021

FIFA says games licensing agreement shouldn't be exclusive

Organisation says it needs multiple partners to make the most of the industry's potential

News Oct 15th, 2021

MOBA Network buys Resetera for $4.5m

Forum was set up in 2017 following the implosion of predecessor NeoGAF

News Oct 15th, 2021

Report: New COD anti-cheat leaked shortly following reveal

Driver for the Ricochet system circulating on hacker forums

News Oct 15th, 2021

Final Fantasy XIV has attracted 24m players

Title has brought in six million new users since the end of 2019

Job News Oct 15th, 2021

Sledgehammer Games sets up new UK studio

The Call of Duty developer has opened an outpost in Guildford

News Oct 14th, 2021

Kernel anti-cheat coming to Call of Duty

Launching in Warzone shortly ahead of Vanguard later this year

News Oct 14th, 2021

Unity lays out carbon neutral ambitions

But the engine maker hasn't given a goal for when it hopes to achieve these aims

News Oct 14th, 2021

Report: FIFA wants twice as much money from EA in licensing deal

But the football organisation wants to restrict what the games giant can do

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