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 Apr 9th, 2019

Microsoft: Google has tech and community, but Stadia needs content to succeed

Xbox marketing boss Nichols is first Big M exec to weigh in on the platform

Job News Apr 9th, 2019

Sumo Digital co-founder Porter moves to board of parent company as COO

Gary Dunn replaces him as MD

News Apr 9th, 2019

Take-Two's Private Division says there aren't enough companies supporting mid-tier developers

"This allows for a lot of creative risk-taking, while also giving teams the budgets needed to really realise their vision"

Job News Apr 8th, 2019

Jen MacLean steps down as IGDA executive director

Just over one year after permanently taking the job

News Apr 8th, 2019

Games companies need to work harder to attract female workers, Women in Games Jobs boss Isaaman says

"The Gender Pay Gap reporting can help us diagnose the problem, and going forward with a commitment from all sides to improvement, they could also help provide a solution"

News Apr 8th, 2019

Tencent's WeGame X is now available internationally

Albeit in a very 'early access' form

News Apr 8th, 2019

European Commission says games firms including Valve, ZeniMax and Bandai Namco are in breach of EU anti-trust laws

Body claims geo-blocking of keys is breaking the rules

News Apr 8th, 2019

REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry

Median hourly wage gap widens by 4.78 per cent, mean figure shows four per cent broadening

News Apr 5th, 2019

INTERVIEWS: Meeting the winners of the BAFTA Game Awards 2019

We sat down with eight of the winners at this year's show

News Apr 4th, 2019

SuperData is launching a digital game forecasting tool

The Forecaster can predict metrics such as MAUs, revenue and in-game spending

News Apr 4th, 2019

This War of Mine has raised $500k for charity, has been bought 4.5m times

Developer and publisher 11 bit Studios has a new game in the works with $5.2m budget and a further two projects in preliminary development after that

News Apr 4th, 2019

Epic's Sweeney says store exclusivity decisions down publishers and developers following Borderlands 3 deal

Platform boss Allison previously said it didn't want to get into messy exclusive deals following Metro Exodus

News Apr 4th, 2019

Minecraft on PC has been bought 30m times

Just under a fifth of the game's total userbase

News Apr 3rd, 2019

GameStop points to Apex Legends and Fortnite driving digital currency sales

Digital receipts up 16.5 per cent year-on-year and this is a large factor

News Apr 3rd, 2019

Update: Tencent made $6bn from US dollar bond sale

Chinese firm raised $5bn this way in January 2018

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