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 Nov 30th, 2018

IGDA calls for action from the video games industry over loot box controversies

"By not taking significant action as an industry and global game developer community to self-regulate how loot boxes are used, we run the very real risk that governments around the world will take that action for us"

News Nov 29th, 2018

Wargaming: Edge Case acquisition has sped up development of new MMO

Collaboration between the two firms has been on the cards for some time

Job News Nov 29th, 2018

Telltale vet Iggo is Sumo Digital's new marketing director

“I’m thrilled to return to the UK games industry and to Sheffield to help lead Sumo’s ambitious plans"

Feature Nov 29th, 2018

Region Focus: London games companies are trying to not let Brexit get them down

Bossa Studios, Curve Digital, Space Ape and CCP tell us more

News Nov 29th, 2018

To the surprise of no-one, the ESA continues to claim loot boxes aren't gambling

Follows US FTC announcing investigation into the business model

News Nov 29th, 2018

Niko Partners: Chinese premium games market to hit $1bn by 2022

Sector to almost double from 2017's $580m

News Nov 29th, 2018

Artifact hits 55k concurrent player peak for first day in the wild

Users have put almost 300,000 hours into the game already

News Nov 28th, 2018

Government figures point to video games contributing £1.069bn to UK economy in 2017 - but it's likely much more

Flaws in the way DCMS has gathered this information - and the way that some games companies classify themselves - mean this figure is lower than it should be

News Nov 28th, 2018

Now Australia's Government might be looking into loot boxes

90-page report into the subject published by Environment and Communications Reference Committee

News Nov 28th, 2018

America's Federal Trading Commission is going to be investigating loot boxes

Follows Star Wars Battlefront II mess at the end of 2017

News Nov 27th, 2018

SuperData: $586m was spent on premium digital PC games during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Rise of 18.3 per cent year-on-year

News Nov 27th, 2018

Starbreeze announces cost cutting following less-than-stellar The Walking Dead launch

$10m license fee to be paid out in Q4 2018, but firm says it will make a loss for the full fiscal year

News Nov 27th, 2018

Washington DC law firm looking into Bethesda's refund policy following Fallout 76 launch

Game rolled out with reports of myriad bugs and did not review well

Job News Nov 27th, 2018

World of Tanks firm Wargaming snaps up Fractured Space firm Edge Case Games

32-person team working on an unannounced new MMO IP

News Nov 27th, 2018

It's official - Fortnite now has 200m players

Rise of 60 per cent in the last five months

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