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 1st, 2019

Merchandise firm Numskull is launching a new publishing business

Rising Star Games co-founder Martin Defries at the helm

Job News Feb 28th, 2019

Updated: 143 staff made redundant at ArenaNet

Roughly a third of total staff

News Feb 28th, 2019

Alibaba's reveals Tech for Change initiative, partners with iamtheCODE to bring one million women into coding by 2030

“By making technology more accessible and affordable, we can inspire creativity and nurture the next generation of game-changers who will make our world a better place."

News Feb 28th, 2019

Simulation specialist Dovetail denies rumour that it was looking to IPO

"The company is scaling rapidly and profitably, and is considering all options as it looks to further accelerate its growth," CEO Paul Jackson says

News Feb 28th, 2019

PUBG Corp turns to machine learning to stop cheaters

Over 250 arrested in China and Korea for selling hacks

News Feb 27th, 2019

EA, Amazon and Comcast enter Nexon bidding war, report claims

No word on how much cash or what percentage these three have tried to snap up

Job News Feb 27th, 2019

Riot, Amazon, PlayStation, EA and NaturalMotion vets join RuneScape firm Jagex

New executive producer, director of community, head of CRM and player engagement, RuneScape technical director and senior director of game engineering at the Cambridge-based company

News Feb 27th, 2019

Taiwanese developer Red Candle temporarily pulls horror title Devotion from Steam following Chinese review bomb

Studio says this is due to technical issues but it will also be addressing the anti-Xi Jinping artwork present in the final release

News Feb 27th, 2019

GOG is finishing its Fair Price Package regional pricing initiative to help it compete with Epic's rev share

DRM-free storefront says it was giving consumers back 12 per cent of game cost on average, sometimes reaching as high as 37 per cent

News Feb 27th, 2019

Skybound terminates Overkill's The Walking Dead deal with Starbreeze, game to be pulled from Steam

Swedish developer and publish trying to resolve the issue amicably

News Feb 27th, 2019

Funcom is making at least three Dune games in the next six years

Firm lands exclusive partnership with rights holder Legendary Entertainment

News Feb 27th, 2019

Microsoft games boss Spencer admits past PC mistakes but platform at "centre of decisions" Xbox firm is making

It sure sounds like the Big M is bringing some big changes to it PC ecosystem in 2019

News Feb 27th, 2019

Tencent partners with Intel for Instant Play streaming service

Details are scarce, but we'll likely know more at GDC

News Feb 26th, 2019

Updated: THQ Nordic PR and marketing director Brock apologises for controversial 8chan AMA

"I do not condone child pornography, white supremacy, or racism in any shape or form. I am terribly sorry for the short-sightedness of my (!) decision, and promise to be far more vigorous in my assessment of these activities in the future"

News Feb 26th, 2019

Microsoft boss Nadella defends HoloLens contract with the US military

CEO sees this as part of the Big M's corporate responsibility

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