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 Mar 29th, 2018

Nvidia chief says GPU market is "not even close" to meeting demand

CEO Jensen Huang expresses frustration at supply running short

Success Story Mar 28th, 2018

What is driving Discord's growth and why does the company keep booting Nazis?

We sat down with the firm's chief Jason Citron to discuss Discord's growth and evolution

News Mar 28th, 2018

Sea of Thieves has two million players a week after launch

Is the best-selling Microsoft game of this generation

News Mar 28th, 2018

Weapon skins come to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

Some are free while the rest are paid - something that will surely encourage further cheating in the battle royale game

News Mar 28th, 2018

Report: 30 per cent of PC gamers around the globe played a battle royale game in February

Newzoo's research into this burgeoning genre shows Fortnite holding a growing lead on Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

News Mar 28th, 2018

Valve to make networking tool open source

And it does not require the use of Steam, either

Job News Mar 27th, 2018

Final Fantasy XV director Tabata sets up new Square Enix studio Luminous Productions

Looking at making innovative triple-A titles, firm on a hiring spree

Job News Mar 27th, 2018

THQ and Virgin vet Roy Campbell is Bethesda's new UK MD

Has been consulting with the publishing giant for a year prior, disappointingly is not the Metal Gear character

News Mar 27th, 2018

Consumers could lose money and games for using "offensive language" on Microsoft services as of May

New Service Agreement shows that the Big M is sick of people using its platforms for offensive purposes

News Mar 27th, 2018

Overwatch League sponsor HP Omen says bad player behaviour does make it nervous

But that this is common with any sponsorship deal, hardware firm says

News Mar 26th, 2018

Publishers including Blizzard, Riot and CCP to combat gamer toxicity with Fair Play Alliance organisation

"We provide an open forum for the games industry to collaborate on research and best practices that encourage fair play and healthy communities in online gaming"

News Mar 26th, 2018

Epic's Sweeney: Fortnite isn't addictive, but a 'healthy, social experience'

Battle royale behemoth is bringing people together, and that's a good thing, the CEO and founder claims

News Mar 26th, 2018

Valve has 1,700 CPUs tasked with halting CS:GO cheaters

Software giant details how it is using machine learning to get rid of foul play in its online shooter

Job News Mar 22nd, 2018

Ubisoft opens Mumbai and Odesa studios

French firm doubling down on Indian and Eastern Europe

News Mar 22nd, 2018

Dead by Daylight studio buys rights from Starbreeze

$16m to exchange hands over the coming years

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