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 Sep 30th, 2020

Report: CD Projekt mandates six-day weeks ahead of Cyberpunk 2077 launch

Comes after the studio made a big song and dance about not forcing staff to crunch

News Sep 29th, 2020

Tekken series passes 50m sales

Most recent entry in the franchise has sold one million units in 2020 to date

News Sep 29th, 2020

VIDEO: Netflix confirms Resident Evil TV show for 2021 release

Stars Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, seperate to the live-action series that is also in the works

News Sep 29th, 2020

US Navy paid $2m to marketing firm for esports

Documents show this branch of the armed forces was trying to reach young people via Twitch and video games

Job News Sep 29th, 2020

Ubisoft vet Ancel was under investigation when he left the firm

The Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil creator departed the publisher and the games industry earlier this month

News Sep 28th, 2020

Tribeca Film Festival calls for video games submissions for first time

Event launches special award for interactive entertainment

News Sep 28th, 2020

Players are the winner in Microsoft's Bethesda acquisition, founder says

Company's creator Weaver says if the Xbox firm can replicate the success of its purchase of Bungie, then users will benefit

News Sep 28th, 2020

Fortnite firm Epic buys "kidtech" company SuperAwesome

Boss Sweeney says it wants to make online experiences safer for children

News Sep 28th, 2020

CHARTS: Among Us holds off big names at head of Steam Top Ten

Title's success continues as it sells more than Fall Guys, Red Dead Redemption 2 and pre-orders for Cyberpunk

News Sep 25th, 2020

Yakuza is once again being turned into a film

Sega teams up with 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content for the project

News Sep 25th, 2020

Rocket League shoots past 1m concurrent users after free-to-play move

Title hit 129,060 simultaneous players on Steam, too

News Sep 25th, 2020

Jagex is bringing RuneScape and Old School to Steam

Modern MMO set to release on Valve's platform next month while the retro-themed title will be launching in early 2021

News Sep 25th, 2020

Amazon reveals its own Luna games streaming service

Yet another tech giant has its head in the clouds

News Sep 24th, 2020

Nvidia apologies for RTX 3090 stock before launch

Due to the specialised nature of the GPU, there isn't much supply in the pipeline apparently

News Sep 24th, 2020

Battle royale title Spellbreak hits 5m players

Proletariat's game is most popular in the United States, Japan and Brazil

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