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 9th, 2021

Almost 6,000 people banned from Final Fantasy 14 for real-money trading

And that's just in one week

News Mar 9th, 2021

Discord revenue almost tripled during 2020

Platform boasts 140 million monthly active users

Job News Mar 9th, 2021

Disintegration studio V1 Interactive closes down

Less than a year after the game launched in June 2020

News Mar 8th, 2021

Microsoft ZeniMax acquisition given nod in EU

Deal is worth $7.5 billion

News Mar 8th, 2021

Games with loot boxes could be given automatic 18 rating in Germany

This is the result of changes to the country's youth protection laws

Job News Mar 8th, 2021

New York Times vet Schiesel takes Xbox comms boss role

"Gamers are a force for good. That's why I am so thrilled to join Team Xbox as director of executive communications"

News Mar 8th, 2021

CHARTS: Loop Hero debuts at No.2 on Steam

Valheim has been the best-selling game on the platform for five weeks in a row

News Mar 5th, 2021

Blizzard: "We're now pretty much out of things to remaster"

Developer says it has "new teams working on new games, new game types"

News Mar 5th, 2021

The ESA is giving $1m to education organisation Black Girls Code

Part of a multi-year initiative to help young women who are interested in tech

News Mar 5th, 2021

Outriders demo has been downloaded by over two million people

Free trial hit this milestone after a week

News Mar 5th, 2021

Valve stops work on Dota card game Artifact

Title wasn't attracting enough active players to make development worthwhile

News Mar 4th, 2021

Riot, Blizzard, Valve and Bungie vets launch new studio Theorycraft Games with backing of NetEase

Chinese giant has led $37.5 million Series A round

News Mar 4th, 2021

'Dynamic Difficulty' class-action lawsuit against EA dropped

Publishing giant apparently showed the legal team "detailed technical information" to show this tech isn't in use

News Mar 4th, 2021

Take-Two's Zelnick: Current consolidation is just the next part of games business maturity

Exec boasts of "organic" growth without making acquisitions

News Mar 4th, 2021

Valheim has sold five million copies in its first month

"Five million units is a huge milestone for any game, and to achieve this in four weeks is remarkable"

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