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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Job News Sep 13th, 2018

It looks like Creative Assembly's next game is a sci-fi first-person shooter

A recruitment ad might have outed the studio's new big project

News Sep 12th, 2018

Team17 made $20.1m in first half of fiscal 2018/19

Up 48 per cent year-on-year

News Sep 12th, 2018

Report: Over half of US "active gamers" play on PC

35 per cent of American population use this platform for games

News Sep 12th, 2018

"Let her know she can define, drive and be that change" - Halo boss Ross tells us how we get more women into STEM

"Girls often leave STEM because they don’t understand the potential and opportunities a technology or engineering degree can provide"

Job News Sep 12th, 2018

Uber vet Frances Frei is helping League of Legends firm Riot Games change its working culture

Having turned around the transport app's famously toxic working culture, the academic has taken on her next big challenge

News Sep 12th, 2018

Jagex posts $110.6m in revenue for last fiscal year

Up 14.2 per cent year-on-year

News Sep 11th, 2018

Report: EA under investigation in Belgium over FIFA loot boxes

Publisher in the firing line over its failure to adhere to the country's laws

Interviews & Opinion Sep 10th, 2018

Robot Cache might be the first use of blockchain tech in games that makes any sense

We catch up with CEO Lee Jacobson about how this storefront is getting over the shockingly low quality bar for this tech

Job News Sep 10th, 2018

Two Riot employees lose jobs following controversial PAX West session

Likely cut due to criticism of the company

News Sep 10th, 2018

Gamescom media coverage drops almost 20 per cent for 2018

Lowest point since Ico Partners started tracking

News Sep 10th, 2018

Update: PUBG dips below 1m concurrent players for the first time in twelve months... days after reaching one-year streak

One hell of a record

News Sep 10th, 2018

Games firms are going to retreat to own marketplaces if Steam maintains its 30% cut of sales, Robot Cache boss says

CEO Lee Jacobson reckons his company's five per cent cut is much more reasonable

News Sep 7th, 2018

Here's why IO ditched Hitman's episodic structure for the Warner-published sequel

"We wanted to break up the sequel chain a little, and it's also important for us to serve our players instead of following this trendy bubble of games-as-a-service"

News Sep 7th, 2018

Battlefield studio DICE to open up about game development realities

Core gameplay designer Florian Le Bihan up first

Interviews & Opinion Sep 7th, 2018

OPINION: The games industry needs to stop caring about being in the Olympics

Our medium needs to get over its cultural insecurities because at the end of the day our time will come

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