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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Interviews & Opinion Feb 8th, 2019

Why selling the Prison Architect IP is Introversion's road to future success

The simulation title might have provided the studio with stability but director Mark Morris says that the developer works best with its back against the wall

News Feb 8th, 2019

Fox's games division FoxNext rolls out development fund for indies

No figure placed on how big this pot is though

Interviews & Opinion Feb 8th, 2019

Meet GameMaker Studio firm YoYo Games' new GM Stuart Poole

We chat to the man himself about GM2's launch, the future of the indie engine firm and when we'll hear more from its publishing label

News Feb 8th, 2019

Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days

Developer Respawn boasts of one million concurrent player peak

News Feb 7th, 2019

Introversion has stepped away from Order of Magnitude, but the game's DNA lives on in next project

Title was announced in April 2018 but wasn't getting the team excited; new title "isn't a million miles away" from the sci-fi colony sim

News Feb 7th, 2019

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games

Ukranian developer is the seventh branch of the middleware and games firm to get the cut in five years

News Feb 7th, 2019

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store

Rockstar parent firm says it wants to be in as many places where consumers are as possible

News Feb 6th, 2019

Insurgency maker New World Interactive is opening a new studio in Canada

Will support on Sandstorm in future, as well as another unannounced title

News Feb 6th, 2019

Hi-Rez fires community manager arrested in child sex sting operation

One of 21 individuals nailed as part of Operation Interception

News Feb 6th, 2019

Report points to CD Projekt reaching settlement with Witcher author Sapkowski

Follows writer demanding $16m - or six per cent - of revenue generated by the video games series

News Feb 6th, 2019

Revenue up 240 per cent at Frontier, firm working on fourth IP

Firm has $51.2m in the bank, potentially to help launch its third-party publishing division

News Feb 6th, 2019

Microsoft Studios is now Xbox Game Studios

"2019 is going to be a great year for Xbox gamers everywhere"

News Feb 6th, 2019

Licensing is best model for Disney in games, CEO Iger says

Boss calls out its partners in the space, including EA, but fails to mention Star Wars Battlefront II launch PR disaster

News Feb 6th, 2019

EA: Respawn to launch new premium Titanfall title this year

New Plants vs Zombies and Need for Speed games on the way, publishing giant has "modest" expectations for Anthem live service... despite talking BioWare's new sci-fi MMO up a huge deal

News Feb 5th, 2019

Games Workshop looking to fix perception of Warhammer IP adaptations

"They are trying to find good developers to work with them and to make sure that the game we will do is good enough"

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