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 Feb 22nd, 2018

Diversity is essential to the growth of the games industry, Microsoft's Spencer says

Exec says that as the people playing games expands, it'd be prudent for companies to best represent their audiences

News Feb 22nd, 2018

Newzoo reckons esports will generate $906m in 2018

Up 38 per cent year-on-year

Interviews & Opinion Feb 22nd, 2018

Why Mail.Ru is teaming up with Epic Games to help out developers

The two companies have formed a partnership that sees money and marketing support for indie studios

News Feb 21st, 2018

Meet the Steel Media team at GDC 2018 and Game Connection

Journalists, ad sales, business development and our top execs are flying out to San Francisco

News Feb 21st, 2018

New PUBG content held up by developers having to deal with cheaters

In March, firm will outline its roadmap for the year

Interviews & Opinion Feb 21st, 2018

"Descenders' success has secured the future of No More Robots and RageSquid"

Two weeks after launch, we catch up with the indie label's founder Mike Rose to see how roguelite-inspired stunt bike game Descenders has done

News Feb 21st, 2018

Report: Playerbase of H1Z1 battle royale mode King of the Kill down 91 per cent from peak

Battle royale isn't proving lucrative for everyone in the sector

Job News Feb 21st, 2018

Co-founders leave Call of Duty: WWII studio Sledgehammer for Activision exec roles

Director of product development Aaron Halon takes on the top job in their stead

Indie Interview Feb 20th, 2018

"We feel the co-op shooter market is underdeveloped" - Ghost Ship Games talks Deep Rock Galactic

Left 4 Dead and PayDay were big, but the Danish developer reckons there's space to expand this sector

News Feb 20th, 2018

99 per cent of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds cheaters are from China

Just under half of the battle royale behemoth's userbase is from the region

News Feb 20th, 2018

Ubisoft insists that Rainbow Six: Siege loot boxes don't influence gameplay

"I am feeling very empathetic towards players upset with this, but at the same time I do not feel we are cheating anyone, I don't think we are being greedy whatsoever."

Feature Feb 19th, 2018

"You don't want to be a clone" - How Toadman plans to innovate on the Dark Souls formula with Immortal: Unchained

The upcoming game riffs off the established formula, but the studio is feeling the pressure to have its own take

Job News Feb 19th, 2018

CI Games announces layoffs despite Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 hitting 1m units

Team reduced to 30

News Feb 19th, 2018

System Shock remaster put on hiatus after making $1.3m via Kickstarter

CEO of developer Nightdive Studios Stephen Kick says this isn't the end, but a break

News Feb 19th, 2018

ESA opposes proposed changes to DMCA that would see abandoned online games preserved

Publishers have concerns about code being made public and them losing out on money

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