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 Feb 20th, 2019

Newzoo: 2.5 per cent of core PC users played Diablo III in January, six month high for Blizzard's dungeon crawler

Seven-year anniversary event saw interest in the loot-em-up rise

News Feb 20th, 2019

Paradox reports record income for quarter with no new releases

CEO Ljungerud says this speaks to the strength of firm's long-term support for games

News Feb 20th, 2019

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks

2.1 times Fortnite, but Epic's battle royale title is gaining again

News Feb 20th, 2019

Starbreeze's acting CEO reassures investors about the game firm's future

Swedish firm files $7.9m EBITDA loss for the last quarter

News Feb 20th, 2019

China blocking game releases again to clear 2018 game freeze backlog

As many as 5,000 games could be awaiting the greenlight

News Feb 20th, 2019

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact

Fan project has attracted over four million people since start of January

News Feb 20th, 2019

Report: Tencent claims 2018 was its best year yet for investments

122 of the 700-plus companies the Chinese tech and entertainment giant has invested in worth over $1bn

Job News Feb 20th, 2019

Disney and Blizzard vet Roper leaves cloud tech firm Improbable

Returns to game development at Seattle studio AuthorDigital

News Feb 15th, 2019

Report: Tencent wants to bring Apex Legends to China

The smell of battle royale success is in the air and the tech and entertainment wants to be a part of it

News Feb 15th, 2019

Revenue down 24 per cent year-on-year at Nvidia as crypto-boom hangover continues

“The combination of post-crypto excess channel inventory and recent deteriorating end-market conditions drove a disappointing quarter"

News Feb 15th, 2019

Update: Apex Legends watched for over three-times as many hours as Fortnite on Twitch in last 72 hours

Respawn's new title watched for 19,806,033 hours in the last three days alone

Job News Feb 15th, 2019

134 jobs eliminated at Blizzard's French office

But it could be months before staff know what's happening to them

News Feb 15th, 2019

The Division 2 PC pre-orders six times higher than original on Ubisoft's own site, partnership with Fortnite firm Epic's new store responsible

Oh, and the French firm is totally working on a battle royale game

News Feb 14th, 2019

New study finds no link between violent games and aggressive kids

"Despite interest in the topic by parents and policy-makers, the research has not demonstrated that there is cause for concern."

News Feb 14th, 2019

Xbox Game Pass subscribers spend 20 per cent more time playing, try 40 per cent more different titles

Microsoft's head of planning for the all-you-can-eat service takes us behind the scenes

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