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 Mar 25th, 2019

Games industry roundup: GDC 2019, Blankos Block Party and TikTok

15 articles from PocketGamer.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockhainGamer.biz

News Mar 25th, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Stray Bombay, ID@Xbox, Google Stadia, Epic and Oculus

Each Monday, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the week

News Mar 25th, 2019

Here's what Steam is going to look like in the near future

Valve shows off new Events feature and what the store's library will look like

Job News Mar 25th, 2019

Codemasters chief insists that no-one was laid off from OnRush team, staff left of own accord

Follows that game not hitting the mark commercially

News Mar 22nd, 2019

Dead Cells has sold over 1m copies, PC still the leading platform

But the Nintendo Switch edition is actually the fastest selling

News Mar 22nd, 2019

GDC 2019 - Kongregate's Greer says its Kartridge storefront is complementary to other newcomers like Epic

The browser game specialist might have been the first to announce its new store, but the competition ramped up significantly before it launched

News Mar 22nd, 2019

GDC 2019 - Codemasters focused on racing for future acquisitions, hints at making mobile purchases

"We're looking at IP, teams and potentially skills"

News Mar 21st, 2019

GDC 2019 - Sweeney: Epic's newly-revealed online services will always be free to developers - even when the Fortnite money starts to dry up

"We're capable of operating the company for decades more with or without a hit to the magnitude of Fortnite"

News Mar 21st, 2019

GDC 2019 - Keywords has around $114m in the bank for acquisitions

CEO Andrew Day says he isn't in a rush to spend this sum this year, saying most of the company's deals are around $10m.

News Mar 20th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Oculus: Facebook negative PR has not affected our business

Follows a year full of bad news about the social network giant

News Mar 20th, 2019

Here's where the name for Google's Stadia might have come from

A company formerly owned by the tech giant trademarked the name back in 2010 which is one hell of a coincidence

News Mar 20th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Counter-Strike's creator says not standing up to players over game changes has led to lack of series innovation

"We were afraid of doing anything different. We were afraid of annoying the player base"

News Mar 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Games audio services revenue up "tenfolds" at Cord and Laced Records following Keywords acquisition

And the company is attracting some big fish, too

News Mar 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - ID@Xbox games have made more than $1.2bn in revenue since programme's launch

Titles in Microsoft's indie scheme had generated $200m in the last 12 months

Interviews & Opinion Mar 19th, 2019

OPINION: Google announced some cool tech at its GDC keynote, but some massive, basic questions remain about its new Stadia games business

Showing off at GDC, it's possible that the firm felt leading with tech was the way to go; but developers care about things like who their audience is going to be and how they're going to make money

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