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 Mar 22nd, 2021

Sea of Thieves passes 20m players three years after launch

Game has attracted five million people since last July

News Mar 22nd, 2021

CHARTS: Valheim maintains No.1 spot, GTA 5 returns in third place

This is the seventh week that Coffee Stain's survival title has been Steam's best-seller

News Mar 12th, 2021

Abubakar Salim's Silver Rain signs publishing deal with EA Originals

"In what has been a challenging year, we have assembled an extraordinarily creative and worldly team who are eager to work on projects that bring their global perspectives to life"

News Mar 12th, 2021

Report: Star Citizen devs were expected to work through Texas snowstorm

Staff describe the situation as a complete breakdown in communication

News Mar 12th, 2021

Microsoft's Bethesda acquisition was about exclusives for Game Pass

$7.5 billion deal closed earlier this week

News Mar 12th, 2021

Blizzard's next project looks to be an FPS multiplayer title

Overwatch maker is staffing up for its next game

News Mar 11th, 2021

Epic Games snaps up photorealism-focused firm Capturing Reality

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed

News Mar 11th, 2021

Sumo Group launches Secret Mode indie publishing label

Head up by Sega vets James Schall and Derek Seklecki

News Mar 11th, 2021

EA looking into allegations of staff selling FIFA UT cards

Posts on social media point claim to show employees selling cards for huge sums of money

News Mar 11th, 2021

Roblox hits $38bn market cap at end of first day on stock exchange

"To all those who helped us get one step closer to fulfilling our vision of the Metaverse – thank you"

News Mar 10th, 2021

Back-end issue briefly took CS:GO's Steam page offline

Title's store page was down for about three hours

News Mar 10th, 2021

Omeda Studios lands $2.2m in funding from investors, also scores grant from Epic

Developer working on Precessor, a successor to the Fortnite firm's own Paragon

News Mar 10th, 2021

Valheim has now sold 5.7m copies

“It is a bit crazy actually, a once-in-a-lifetime hit, I think"

News Mar 10th, 2021

Some Bethesda games will be Xbox and PC exclusives

"This is the next step in building an industry-leading first-party studios team," Microsoft's Spencer said

News Mar 9th, 2021

TinyBuild goes public on London Stock Exchange

"Since establishing TinyBuild eight years ago, we have gone on to create one of the most exciting players in our industry, with a quality portfolio of games enjoyed worldwide"

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