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 Dec 5th, 2018

Indie developers can attend PC Connects London for just £96, developer and publisher tickets cost £240

Want to come to just the PC side of things? You can save big!

News Dec 5th, 2018

Epic confirms that Unreal Tournament is no longer in active development

Team now working on Fortnite

News Dec 5th, 2018

Valve explains why some indies have seen reduced Steam traffic

Tweaks to search went wrong

News Dec 4th, 2018

Fortnite firm Epic launches games storefront where developers keep 88 per cent of revenue

Launching soon with curated selection of games

Feature Dec 4th, 2018

Does Valve care about indies on Steam anymore?

The PC giant is taking a smaller percentage of sales on more successful games while traffic to smaller projects falls

News Dec 4th, 2018

Ubisoft announces plans to acquire server firm i3D.net

Set to go through before end of March 2019

News Dec 4th, 2018

THQ Nordic snaps up Carmageddon IP

This deal allows Carmageddon to find the home that it deserves”

News Dec 4th, 2018

Bethesda bans Fallout 76 players for life following homophobic attack in-game

Initially banned for three days, group banned forever

News Dec 3rd, 2018

Starbreeze CEO departs as Swedish developer files for reconstruction

Follows Overkill's The Walking Dead not hitting commercial targets

Feature Dec 3rd, 2018

The PC Revolution: We may be witnessing the start of Steam's demise

How Valve's platform is no longer working for anyone

News Dec 3rd, 2018

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED and research firm Newzoo join PC Connects London 2019 line-up

Event taking place on January 21st and 22nd

News Dec 3rd, 2018

Valve makes changes to distribution agreement, lowers rev share for successful games

Projects that make over $10m see Steam payout drop a fifth to 25 per cent.

News Dec 3rd, 2018

Indie developers see massive reduction in Steam traffic

Smaller studios hit hard

News Nov 30th, 2018

French PC streaming start-up Shadow isn't interested in selling to a triple-A firm at the moment

As more big games companies such as Microsoft and EA announce their interest in the streaming space, CEO Freund says the company is better off independent

News Nov 30th, 2018

Black Friday revenue doubles year-on-year at Green Man Gaming

Consumers aged 25-to-34 were behind half of all sales, 62 per cent increase in units sold this year

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