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 Nov 8th, 2019

Grand Theft Auto V has sold five million copies since May

While recurrent consumer spending on the online mode rose 23 per cent

News Nov 8th, 2019

Revenue up 74% at Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two

Digital behind 72 per cent of company's net revenue

News Nov 8th, 2019

Activision Blizzard revenue clocks in $177m higher than expectations

Though it's still down 15 per cent year-on-year

News Nov 8th, 2019

World of Warcraft Classic growing subscriptions for the MMO

Follows subscription revenue spiking in August

News Nov 7th, 2019

EA and Activision Blizzard insiders profiting from selling stock in buybacks

"Isn't it market manipulation for a company to say we're doing a buyback and then an officer says, 'I'm going to sell'?"

News Nov 7th, 2019

SuperData: In-game spending has slowed down in 2019

And there are a few factors why

News Nov 7th, 2019

Hearthstone director says he wishes Blizzard had handled Blitzchung situation differently

“We saw [the resulting controversy] less as associated with our game and more as associated with our company."

News Nov 7th, 2019

Work on next Hitman game is "well underway"

November update for Hitman 2 will be the last major patch apparently

News Nov 7th, 2019

Overwatch updates slowed down because of its sequel

“I think Overwatch 2 is kinda gonna be the greatest moment in Overwatch history. The fact that we can pick up again with that live service cadence, where we’re 100 per cent focused, is really exciting to me.”

Job News Nov 6th, 2019

PUBG creator Greene says he wants his development team to be more diverse

Battle royale progenitor embarrassed his studio only has one woman

News Nov 6th, 2019

It looks like Valve might be launching a Steam streaming service

According to code additions for the platform

News Nov 6th, 2019

Blizzard is aiming to recapture Diablo 2's dark feel with Diablo IV

"It was kind of exciting for us to think about, going back to that darker time"

News Nov 6th, 2019

China's game regulator publishes new guidelines to protect children

New limits on time and money spent on with this hobby

News Nov 5th, 2019

Street Fighter V event will demonstrate that esports could be part of the Olympics, Intel says

"We're doing this as a real effort to show how great esports can be"

News Nov 5th, 2019

The Witcher TV show boss has seven series planned already

"The worst thing we could do is put all of our energies just into season one, and not be thinking about where these characters can grow to"

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