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 9th, 2019

Swedish court approves Starbreeze's reconstruction

Comes 12 months after the firm fell on hard times in December 2018

News Dec 9th, 2019

IDreamSky in talks to buy Hong Kong games firm Leyou

And there's $1.4bn on the table for such a deal

News Dec 9th, 2019

New content for Elder Scrolls card game Legends has been axed

Follows CD Projekt killing the console editions of Gwent last week

News Dec 9th, 2019

Report: Clip from forthcoming Star Wars film to debut in Fortnite

Rise of Skywalker scene set to be shown on December 14th

News Dec 9th, 2019

Epic is now letting companies use whatever in-game payment options the want

"We support developers’ right to choose among the best stores, in-app payment processors, online services, and engines, and to mix and match these components as they wish"

News Dec 6th, 2019

EA pulls Marco van Basten from FIFA 20 following Nazi joke

Former pro football player says this was an ill-conceived joke

News Dec 6th, 2019

China's NetEase is entering the cloud games sector

38 mobile titles on the platform at the moment with PC support coming soon

News Dec 6th, 2019

Kongregate snaps up browser-based battle royale game Surviv.io

This is the second acquisition the web games specialist has made this year

News Dec 6th, 2019

Denmark's Astralis Group is first esports firm to go public

“In this respect it is also our responsibility to help educate the market through a continuous high level of information," says CEO Nyholm

News Dec 6th, 2019

Riot Games launches publishing label for new League of Legends titles

First release to be announced next week

News Dec 5th, 2019

Overwatch director Kaplan wants to make more games in that world

“We’ve always thought of Overwatch as a universe, not a single game"

Job News Dec 5th, 2019

Esports firm ESL cuts jobs in France and Spain as part of restructuring effort

Number of staff affected unclear

News Dec 5th, 2019

Alice maker American McGee hit with YouTube copyright claim... for playing his own game

Organisation called Illustrated Sound Music has been striking a number of channels for alleged copyright violations

News Dec 5th, 2019

CD Projekt closing down Witcher card game Gwent on consoles

PC and mobile versions simply more popular

News Dec 5th, 2019

Rune II publisher Ragnarok is suing its developers

Firm claims that the studio is guilty of "fraud and malice"

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