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 Aug 10th, 2018

Epic, Ubisoft and Motion Twin headline ConnectsX track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018

Visit Scandic Marina Congress Centre on September 11th for top PC insight (save up to $300 while mid-term prices still available)

News Aug 10th, 2018

Monster Hunter World is Japan's biggest game on Steam yet

Overtakes Dark Souls 3

Industry Icon Aug 10th, 2018

New IP Strange Brigade, a Rogue Trooper film and lots of 2000AD - Rebellion sure has a lot going on at the moment

CEO Jason Kingsley OBE on the Oxford firm's new focus on self-publishing, new IP and making more use of Dredd and co in different media

News Aug 10th, 2018

Germany is now allowing Nazi symbols like swastikas in video games

"Video games have been recognised as a cultural medium for many years now, and this latest decision consistently cements that recognition in terms of the use of unconstitutional symbols as well"

News Aug 10th, 2018

Ubisoft and It's Always Sunny stars are making a TV show set in a game studio for Apple

"Cutting-edge" show will "explore the intricacies of the human condition through hilarious and innovative ways"

News Aug 9th, 2018

Discord launches storefront, now has 150m users

Chat app wants to be a "cosy neighborhood bookshop" for games

News Aug 9th, 2018

Halo TV show set for 2020 release

The fight might finally be finished

Job News Aug 9th, 2018

2K vet Hartmann joins Amazon Game Studios

“Gaming, today’s favorite form of entertainment in the world, is connecting hundreds of millions of people"

News Aug 9th, 2018

Riot responds to allegations of a sexist working culture

League of Legends firm admits that improvements need to be made to its office environment and does not deny any accusations levelled against it

News Aug 8th, 2018

Fix PUBG website launched to show what's coming to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

Firm taking legal action against cheat developers and resellers

News Aug 8th, 2018

IGN drops Nintendo editor Filip Miucin after Dead Cells review plagiarism

Site deems piece "simply not acceptable".

News Aug 8th, 2018

Jason Kingsley: Rebellion isn't interested in going public

"We don't really want or need to. My brother and I very much enjoy what we are doing now as a truly independent company"

News Aug 8th, 2018

80 per cent of Riot staff are male, report outs culture of sexism

"The 'bro culture' there is so real"

News Aug 7th, 2018

IGN pulls Dead Cells review amid allegations of YouTube plagiarism

It sure looks like Nintendo editor Filip Miucin has copied Boomstick Gaming's critique

Job News Aug 7th, 2018

Dr Emily Short promoted to SpiritAI board

Has been working at firm for two years as product manager for its Character Engine, recently rose to executive director

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