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 Dec 21st, 2020

CHARTS: Third No.1 since launch for Cyberpunk 2077

CD Projekt's RPG continues to sell well despite a litany of issues and bad press

Job News Dec 18th, 2020

Vin Diesel is Studio Wildcard's, erm, "president of creative convergence"

Hollywood talent isn't just appearing in the upcoming Ark 2

News Dec 18th, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator has over two million players so far

Title reached this milestone faster than any other entry in the series

News Dec 18th, 2020

Discord valuation has doubled to $7bn

Firm raising $140 million in new funding round

News Dec 18th, 2020

CD Projekt stock opens 15% down after Cyberpunk 2077 pulled from PSN

Firm has lost almost $1bn from its market cap since May high

News Dec 17th, 2020

Streaming tech firm Parsec lands $25m Series B funding

Follows $7m investment it landed in May

News Dec 17th, 2020

BioWare vets join new Mass Effect dev team

Follows some high-profile departures from the studio

News Dec 17th, 2020

GOG decides to not list Devotion days before launch

Follows "many messages from gamers"

News Dec 17th, 2020

Keywords acquires PR agency Indigo Pearl and audio firm Jinglebell

"We are delighted to have further grown the Keywords family by adding such talented teams in Milan and London"

News Dec 16th, 2020

Keywords' Sperasoft studio working on new project with Eve Online makers CCP

Could this be the unannounced online shooter that CCP London is developing?

News Dec 16th, 2020

Ubisoft unveils scholarship for UK Black students to study computer science

"We wanted to go one step further and tackle an area where we can truly make a meaningful difference to diversify the UK games industry"

News Dec 16th, 2020

EA Play for Xbox Game Pass PC delayed until 2021

No reason given why this has been bumped

News Dec 16th, 2020

UK MPs say it should be illegal to resell items bought with bots

Follows launches of Nvidia's RTX 3000 cards, as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X/S being hit by scalpers

News Dec 15th, 2020

Danger, danger: Keywords snaps up High Voltage Software

Studio has worked on the likes of Fortnite, Mortal Kombat and Saints Row

News Dec 15th, 2020

CD Projekt promises developers bonuses for Cyberpunk 2077 work

Staff previously would only receive payouts if the game hit certain critical goals

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