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 Oct 14th, 2019

Starbreeze values Payday IP rights at close to $162.3m

Company expects cash flow to increase sixfold between 2022 and 2023 when a new release in the crime franchise is set to launch

News Oct 14th, 2019

Blizzard insists China ties played no part in the banning of pro-Hong Kong Hearthstone player

Firm wants esports tournaments to just be about the game and nothing else

News Oct 14th, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Borderlands 3, Seag Searchlight, Maximum's Modus publishing label and much more

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days

Success Story Oct 11th, 2019

Why Borderlands 3 has been a smash hit on PC

Gearbox Software senior producer Anthony Nicholson talks Epic, pent-up excitement for the game and what the studio learnt from the title's release

News Oct 11th, 2019

League of Legends firm Riot is taking esports firm Riot Squad to court over name

Developer and publisher says the pro-games firm is trying to piggyback of its success

News Oct 11th, 2019

EA boasts 10m FIFA 20 players two weeks after launch

Though it's not clear how this compares to previous years

News Oct 11th, 2019

Ubisoft continues doubling down on TV with new Rabbids, Rayman and Watch Dogs shows

“Every show has a different target that it’s aiming at and a different format"

News Oct 11th, 2019

Hitman firm IO Interactive and Warner Bros partner for "new universe"

No word on what this might entail just yet

News Oct 11th, 2019

Riot clears up whether its casters can say 'Hong Kong'

Follows commentators referring to local team by initials

News Oct 10th, 2019

There's a new games industry mental health charity called Safe In Our World

“The video games industry creates worlds for a huge number of vulnerable people, and it is our duty to help and support them"

Interviews & Opinion Oct 10th, 2019

Under the Searchlight: Behind the scenes of Sega's hunt for new development talent

Head of content Bobby Wertheim tells us what the Japanese giant is after, what it offers creators and how it ended up buying Two Point Studios

News Oct 10th, 2019

Ex-Bungie boss Ryan launches new company ProbablyMonsters that builds studios

Firm has $18.8m in Series A funding

News Oct 10th, 2019

Google: Stadia to fight lag with machine learning to predict inputs

“Ultimately, we think in a year or two we’ll have games that are running faster and feel more responsive in the cloud than they do locally, regardless of how powerful the local machine is.”

News Oct 10th, 2019

Blizzard staff protest Hearthstone pro banned over Hong Kong views

“Blizzard makes a lot of money in China, but now the company is in this awkward position where we can’t abide by our values"

News Oct 10th, 2019

Report: 51% per cent of Destiny 2's active user base is on PC

51 per cent of users at time of writing

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