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.

Articles by Alex Forbes-Calvin

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News Sep 23rd, 2019

It looks like Epic paid Digital Bros $10.5m for Control exclusivity

Remedy's latest release is well on its way to making back its $22.2m-to-$33.3m production budget

News Sep 23rd, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - My.Games, Total War Saga Troy, KA Games' rebrand and much more!

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

News Sep 20th, 2019

Editor's Pick: Here are five talks you can't miss from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki's Big Screen Gaming track

PC and console returns to our Finnish event on Tuesday, October 1st

News Sep 20th, 2019

Which "underperforming" game development project is Keywords keen to get away from?

Studio acquired by the services giant locked into contract for title that's costing too much to make

News Sep 20th, 2019

Keywords snaps up German localisation and dubbing firm TV+Synchron

And what is the game that is being handled by one of the company's stories that is "underperforming"?

Interviews & Opinion Sep 20th, 2019

Why Russia's My.Games has entered the store wars

The company has been running Games.Mail.Ru in the region for years now, but can it compete with the likes of Steam and Epic?

News Sep 20th, 2019

It must be possible to resell games on Steam in EU, French court tells Valve

Bellevue-based PC giant appealing the verdict

News Sep 20th, 2019

Tencent hoping to capitalise on games success for cloud business

Chinese giant on hunt for partners in South East Asia to use its tech

Interviews & Opinion Sep 20th, 2019

Why Creative Assembly took the Total War Saga series to Troy

Lead designer Todor Nikolov tells us what lessons the studio took from Thrones of Britannia and how it has built a historical game around a conflict that little is actually known about

Feature Sep 18th, 2019

Inside Track - PR and marketing agency KA Games has rebranded as Neonhive

"The last year for us has been a blast"

Interviews & Opinion Sep 17th, 2019

Why Spilt Milk has decided to start launching more experimental games via its Shake label

Studio co-founder Andrew Smith tells us more

News Sep 17th, 2019

Knights and Bikes TV rights optioned by Peaky Blinders production company

"The energy, humour, and joy that continually bursts out of TV animation was a large inspiration in creating Knights and Bikes"

News Sep 17th, 2019

EA's Project Atlas tech test will use around 10,000 players

Firm also gathering consumer behaviour data

News Sep 17th, 2019

Report: The ESA is looking to make changes to E3, 10,000 more consumers will be at 2020 show

Pitch deck for E3 2020 shows organiser the ESA looking to change up the LA trade show

News Sep 17th, 2019

Gears 5 attracted three million players in first week

Apparently this is Microsoft's biggest Steam first-party release, too

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