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 16th, 2020

There's a new map coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

Smaller island introduces new mechanics

News Jan 16th, 2020

Jagex hits all-time RuneScape membership high

Meanwhile, the retro-themed Old School hits high for daily active users during 2019

News Jan 15th, 2020

Goodbye Kansas Game Invest rebrands following THQ Nordic acquisition

"Our focus remains the same - to enter long-term partnerships with talented game developers across the globe and help them to reach their goals"

News Jan 15th, 2020

Valve's Index VR headset has sold out in all but one country

Only available in Japan following Half-Life: Alyx reveal

News Jan 15th, 2020

Subnautica hits 5m sales milestone

That's on top of the 4.5m units that were downloaded for free on Epic

News Jan 15th, 2020

Nope, Roblox isn't shutting down

"Don’t believe everything y’all read on the internet!"

News Jan 15th, 2020

Epic Games Store has attracted 108m PC users

Platform has generated $680m in revenue in its first year

News Jan 14th, 2020

League of Legends maker Riot rolls out new tabletop label

Imaginatively called Riot Tabletop

News Jan 14th, 2020

Rockstar removes Grand Theft Auto 4 from Steam due to Games for Windows Live issues

"With Microsoft no longer supporting Games For Windows Live, it is no longer possible to generate the additional keys needed to continue selling the current version of the game"

News Jan 14th, 2020

Ubisoft wants to get into the auto chess genre

French firm might have given battle royale a miss but it wants to get into auto battlers with Might and Magic

News Jan 13th, 2020

Australian academics investigating games industry's carbon emissions

"This research is being conducted to find out about the energy use and associated carbon emissions of digital game production both in individual workplaces and across the sector as a whole"

News Jan 13th, 2020

Chinese regulator taking action against games addiction

Government worried about rise of mental health in the country

News Jan 13th, 2020

Game studios including Bungie and Ubisoft donate money to those affected by Australia fires

Wildfires have been raging in the country since July 2019

News Jan 13th, 2020

CHARTS: Iceborne DLC brings Monster Hunter World back to Steam No.1 spot

Capcom's title takes three places in the rankings this week

News Jan 10th, 2020

Valve has changed how soundtracks work on Steam

Now their own app type instead of just being DLC

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