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 Jan 16th, 2018

Report: PC sector could be behind third of games revenue by 2022

Napkin maths puts that in the region of $77.6bn

News Jan 15th, 2018

All the biggest PC games news from CES 2018

If you're working anywhere near the tech community, you'll no doubt be aware that the Consumer Electronics Show took place in Las Vegas last week

Job News Jan 15th, 2018

Accusations of unhealthy working culture at David Cage's Quantic Dream

Studio denies what has been reported by three separate French media outlets

News Jan 15th, 2018

PC Connects London 2018: Meet the Speakers - Ashley Gullen, Scirra

Ahead of PC Connects London on January 22nd and 23rd, we have been speaking to some of the wonderful speakers who are going to be sharing their insight at the show.

News Jan 15th, 2018

They Are Billions rises to second place in Steam Top Ten

While Curve's Human: Fall Flat has sold around 1.5m and charts in third

Job News Jan 12th, 2018

New Year New Job - PCGamesN's Joel Gregory shares his top tips for breaking into the games media

"If you want a job writing about games, or editing video, or whatever it might be, then there's no reason you shouldn't already be doing that in your own time"

News Jan 12th, 2018

Overwatch League debut smashes Twitch expectations, brings in 415k viewers at peak

Seoul Dynasty versus Dallas Fuel brings in a huge crowd

News Jan 12th, 2018

PC Connects London 2018: Meet the Speakers - Mike Rose, No More Robots

Ahead of PC Connects London on January 22nd and 23rd, we have been speaking to some of the wonderful speakers who are going to be sharing their insight at the show.

News Jan 12th, 2018

Intel says recently issued patches for CPU security flaws might cause issues on older chips, vows to be more open about security

While AMD and ARM finally admit that their hardware is at risk

Success Story Jan 11th, 2018

One month on, how has Grey Alien's Shadowhand done for itself?

After launching on December 7th, Shadowhand made more gross revenue in its first month than the studio's previous title Regency Solitaire made in its lifetime.

Job News Jan 11th, 2018

New Year New Job - Curve's George Morgan tells us how he became a product manager and what that involves

"I ensure that the product appears on launch day with everything that needs to go with it, so all the store text and images, ensuring the marketing plan is being executed correctly"

Interviews & Opinion Jan 11th, 2018

With Steam new releases almost doubling year-on-year, Valve needs to take a closer look at what should make the cut

"Human curation - like that seen on GOG - won't be perfect, but I would far rather a storefront control what appears on its platform in a proactive way as opposed to the reactive way in which Steam appears to act"

News Jan 11th, 2018

SteamSpy reports more than 7,600 games were released on Steam in 2017

That's roughly a 46 per cent jump in new titles year-on-year

News Jan 11th, 2018

2017 video games crowdfunding estimated to have brought in $25m

Figures from Ico Partners show a less-than two per cent decline year-on-year

News Jan 10th, 2018

Total War is headed to China with Three Kingdoms game

Set to release in autumn 2018, one of four projects developer Creative Assembly has in the works

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