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 Jan 26th, 2021

Video games raised $23.3m on Kickstarter in 2020

That's a 35 per cent increase year-on-year

News Jan 26th, 2021

Star Wars Battlefront 2 picked up by 19m people on Epic

Less than a year after EA stopped updating the shooter

News Jan 26th, 2021

Konami restructures its development teams, isn't dropping out of video games

Japanese giant dissolves its three production divisions

News Jan 25th, 2021

RuneScape firm Jagex has been acquired AGAIN, this time by The Carlyle Group

No figure put on the deal just yet, reported to be more than the $530m valuation it landed in last buyout

News Jan 25th, 2021

SuperData: Digital PC games revenue up 40% thanks to record Cyberpunk 2077 launch

Firm reports the eagerly-anticipated RPG is the biggest launch of all time

News Jan 25th, 2021

Vicarious Visions moves from Activision to Blizzard

Rumours point to studio working on Diablo II remake

News Jan 25th, 2021

CHARTS: Everspace 2 debuts in second place, Rust still holds No.1 spot

This is the third week that Facepunch's survival title has been the best-selling game on Steam

News Jan 22nd, 2021

Capcom is making Re:Verse, another Resident Evil multiplayer game

Title set to launch later this year

News Jan 22nd, 2021

Microsoft Flight Sim maker Asobo lands investment from Sagard NewGen

No figure put on the deal just yet

News Jan 22nd, 2021

Team17 buys Golf With Your Friends IP for $16.4m

But hasn't bought its developer, Blacklight Interactive

News Jan 22nd, 2021

Capcom increases financial forecast off back of Resident Evil 3 success

Series has shifted 105 million units since 1996

News Jan 21st, 2021

Among Us devs Innersloth explains why updates are taking a while

The game's surprise success took the studio by surprise

News Jan 21st, 2021

Valve boss Newell has "a lot of sympathy" for CD Projekt over Cyberpunk 2077 launch

Development vet says the studio should learn from the experience

Job News Jan 21st, 2021

EA, Xbox and Sega vet Peter Moore joins Unity

"Delighted to be reunited with so many industry friends as we work on some really cool stuff"

News Jan 21st, 2021

Valve and other games firm fined $9.5m by European Commission over Steam geo-blocking

EC claims that these companies are in violation of antitrust legislation

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