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 30th, 2017

Sega reacts to negative Sonic Mania reviews due to Denuvo DRM

Oh, and one of the developers appears to be putting the boot into Sega

News Aug 30th, 2017

Blizzard’s Kaplan outlines future of Overwatch ban system

"Like it or not, this is an "us, the OW community problem" and not just an "OW team problem". For better or for worse, we're in this together."

Success Story Aug 29th, 2017

Improbable’s SpatialOS lets developers have their heads in the cloud

How a London-based tech company is levelling the games development landscape

News Aug 29th, 2017

Happy Volcano’s The Almost Gone wins The Big PC Indie Pitch Gamescom 2017

Regional Nightclub Bouncer from Panic Barn and Mooneye Studios' Lost Ember take second and third place respectively

Job News Aug 29th, 2017

Green Man Gaming has a new EVP of performance marketing

Sporting Index and QVC vet Paul Turner joins the digital retailer

News Aug 29th, 2017

More than 350,000 people went to Gamescom 2017

Broke records for the Cologne-based trade fair, 919 companies from 54 countries attended

News Aug 29th, 2017

The Escapists 2 debuts in third place in Steam Top Ten

Codemasters F1 2017 also goes straight to No.5

News Aug 27th, 2017

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds beats DOTA 2 concurrent player figures

How long before the battle royale title beats their peak player figures?

News Aug 25th, 2017

Brink goes free-to-play

Though there is little in the way of monetisation options

News Aug 25th, 2017

Bithell Games to publish The GameDev Business Handbook

Former games journo Mike Futter pens guide for sustainable game studios

News Aug 25th, 2017

A former Valve writer might have just revealed Half Life 3 plot

Letter written by 'Gertie Fremont' sounds an awful lot like the next Half Life story

News Aug 25th, 2017

Ubisoft reveals next entry in the Anno series

French firm pencils in 2018 release date for the city sim title

News Aug 23rd, 2017

Sega studio Relic is making the next Age of Empires game

First entry in the series to not be handled by Ensemble

Job News Aug 23rd, 2017

Layoffs looking likely at SkySaga maker Radiant Worlds

Future of the studio looking unclear as SkySaga publisher Smilegate puts the project on hold

Success Story Aug 22nd, 2017

Another Man's Sky: Novaquark's vision for ambitious MMO Dual Universe

Why Jean-Christophe Baillie is making a single shard MMO and what he learnt from No Man's Sky

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