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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Indie Interview Jan 10th, 2018

CreativeForge is putting a Cold War twist on the XCOM strategy formula with Phantom Doctrine

Two years after releasing supernatural turn-based Western game Hard West, the studio is back with a Cold War conspiracy thriller

Job News Jan 10th, 2018

Updated: Creative Assembly's Grace Carroll takes us behind the scenes of handling social media for Total War

"I’m the community’s main point of contact and get to be the conduit between the community and the studio to make sure their feedback is heard"

News Jan 10th, 2018

Steam hits new record of 18.5m concurrent users

42 per cent of users in games were playing PUBG

News Jan 9th, 2018

Curve Digital's Human: Fall Flat surpasses 1m sales on Steam

Title has sold in the region of 800,000 copies in last three months

News Jan 9th, 2018

PUBG players will soon be able to report cheaters in replay mode

Follows 1.5m people being banned from the game for cheating between March and December 2017

News Jan 9th, 2018

Interest in cryptocurrency sees GPU prices and demand soar

Some AMD cards now costing twice their launch price

Job News Jan 9th, 2018

New Year New Job - What does managing brand for Dingit involve? Claire Sharkey tells us

"I represent the brand and also work on our marketing strategies, which encompasses sponsorship of events, content creators and working with major industry names, be that in the triple-A or indie market"

News Jan 9th, 2018

PC Connects London 2018: Meet the Speakers - Andrew Smith, Spilt Milk

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

Interviews & Opinion Jan 8th, 2018

Storm in a Teacup: Close to the Sun could begin a new era for us

Announced at Gamescom 2017, the Italian studio has high hopes for the horror-tinged science fiction project

News Jan 8th, 2018

PC Connects London 2018: Meet the Speakers - Mike Bithell

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.

Job News Jan 8th, 2018

Sniper Elite firm Rebellion snaps up Radiant Worlds

70 employees saved, studio rebranded Rebellion Warwick

News Jan 8th, 2018

Cloud Imperium files motion to dismiss on Star Citizen Crytek suit

And it looks like the licensing agreement the duo signed does not back up Crytek's claims

News Jan 8th, 2018

GOG has rejected puzzle title Opus Magnum

Zachtronics' game fails the online stores curation process, apparently

News Jan 8th, 2018

They Are Billions takes Steam No.3 spot, Human: Fall Flat returns to Top Ten

Curve Digital's physics-based title closes in on 1.5m sales

News Jan 5th, 2018

US military making game to prepare teachers for school shootings

Will be out in spring of this year

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