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 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Oxenfree has sold 1.5m copies but boasts 3m installs

PC still leading the pack, but the gap ahead of console is closing

News Mar 19th, 2019

Here are the biggest news stories from Unity's GDC 2019 Keynote

Tencent, cloud gaming, raytracing, AR and much more!

Interviews & Opinion Mar 18th, 2019

OPINION: The big questions surrounding Google's GDC 2019 keynote

Who this is for, what partners it might have attracted and what investment it might have made in its first-party studios

Job News Mar 18th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Here's why Valve alum Chet Faliszek left Bossa Studios

Developer joined in September 2017 and left around a year later

Interviews & Opinion Mar 18th, 2019

Behind the scenes on Valve and Riot vets Chet Faliszek and Kimberly Voll's new co-op centric studio Stray Bombay

We caught up with the development duo to see why they've set up this new firm, how AI could be used to improve co-operative games and what they have learnt from their times at Riot and Valve

News Mar 14th, 2019

Updated: Those rumours about Sony buying Take-Two are false - but should the PlayStation firm snap up the Grand Theft Auto giant?

Reported $130-per-share price the Rockstar and 2K Games parent company's market cap at a huge $13.5bn

News Mar 14th, 2019

Curve parent firm Catalis snaps up Bomber Crew studio Runner Duck

First of many acquisitions, Catalis boss Wheatley says

News Mar 14th, 2019

PC is Monster Hunter World's second largest platform, Capcom says

EMEA and UK marketing director Antoine Molant says that forthcoming Iceborne expansion is a "key project" for the Japanese publisher - and that's not all the firm has in the pipeline this year

List Mar 13th, 2019

Here are six videos from The PC Revolution track at PC Connects London 2019

What you missed from the January event

List Mar 13th, 2019

Here are four videos from PC Connects London 2019's The Long Game Track

What you missed from the January event

List Mar 12th, 2019

Here are six videos from PC Connects London 2019's Codeshop talks

What you missed from the January event

News Mar 11th, 2019

Updated: ERA "spend on access" figures for games include microtransactions as users do not own content

Trade body claims consumers parted with £2.25bn in 2018 for accessing, not owning games

News Mar 11th, 2019

Artifact designer describes launch as "rocky"

Garfield and Elias from 3 Donkeys have contracted terminated with Valve

News Mar 11th, 2019

Patents reveal that Google's new games ecosystem may collect user data

But the tech giant says consumers will control what is stored and says information will be anonymised

Interviews & Opinion Mar 8th, 2019

Curve Digital's Buahin: 'We still have a way to go to dispel assumptions that women don't play games'

Today is International Women's Day and to mark the occasion, we have decided to highlight some of the incredible women working in the games industry

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