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 Jul 22nd, 2019

Dota 2 The International 2019 prize pot hits $30m, surpassing Fortnite World Cup cash

Sitting at $30,158,755 at time of writing

News Jul 22nd, 2019

Microsoft's storefront will soon support mods

Though there's no word when this will be rolled out

Job News Jul 22nd, 2019

Ex-Visceral GM Steve Papoutsis headlines new hires at PUBG Corp's Striking Distance studio

Former Sledgehammer, Visceral and Crystal Dynamics vets join the new developer

News Jul 22nd, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Dragonest on Auto Chess, Willits leaves Id, Google Stadia AMA and much more!

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

Job News Jul 19th, 2019

Id Software studio boss Willits to leave the Doom developer

24-year vet to depart following Quakecon

News Jul 19th, 2019

Here's everything we learnt from Google's Stadia Reddit AMA

Search and software giant asserts its commitment to the tech, says why developers should come on board, discusses data caps and much more

News Jul 19th, 2019

Increase in subscription revenue offsets Fortnite decline for Microsoft as Xbox Live hits 65m monthly users

Games cash dips ten per cent year-on-year for the Big M

Job News Jul 19th, 2019

Terraforming Mars developer LuckyHammers closes down

70 staff to lose their job

News Jul 19th, 2019

Kongregate snaps up developer RPG Bit Heroes

Juppiomenz-developed title has made generated $10 million in net revenue on mobile

News Jul 18th, 2019

Anno 1800 helped drive PC to be Ubisoft's biggest cash cow for last quarter

"So the 34 per cent was also pushed by Anno which is a PC specific game. But even with that launch, we had a very good performance on PC overall"

News Jul 18th, 2019

Here's why Dragonest has teamed up with Tencent to publish Drodo Auto Chess in China

"A good product needs to be known by as many people as possible"

News Jul 17th, 2019

Borderlands 3 won't have cross-platform play at launch

Feature launching following the game's September release

Job News Jul 16th, 2019

PlayStation vet John Drake to head up games biz dev and licensing at Disney

Follows five years at Sony

News Jul 16th, 2019

Devotion dev Red Candle says Winnie the Pooh art asset has caused it "immeasurable harm" to studio

Developer will not re-release the horror game soon, but might in the future

News Jul 16th, 2019

Ubisoft responds to crowdsourcing Watch Dogs Legion creative through Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord firm

French firm says that all contributions are voluntary

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