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 9th, 2017

Valve announces DOTA card game Artifact

Trailer revealed at The International 2017 DOTA 2 tournament

Interviews & Opinion Aug 8th, 2017

Is Bossa's Worlds Adrift the next Minecraft?

Best known for physics games like Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, Bossa Studio's next title, MMO Worlds Adrift, is its most ambitious project yet

News Aug 8th, 2017

Dropleaf games subscription service wants to help indies with discoverability

44 titles on the platform already

News Aug 8th, 2017

DOTA 2 International kicks off, prize pool stands at $23.6m

The International prize pot increases $3m year-on-year

News Aug 8th, 2017

Spelunky and Downwell developers collaborate on 50 new games

Five-man team of indie vets working on 50 8-bit titles

News Aug 8th, 2017

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players

MMO's cumulative players have almost doubled in the last year

Interviews & Opinion Aug 7th, 2017

‘Minecraft is awesome, but I wanted to try something new’ – Daniel Kaplan's move from Mojang to Coffee Stain

After seven years, Mojang's first employee left the company in favour of Swedish games firm Coffee Stain

News Aug 7th, 2017

2.3m people play Rainbow Six Siege each day, Ubisoft claims

Total playerbase hits 20m, Ubi says Siege is "here to stay"

Feature Aug 7th, 2017

What went wrong with Introversion's Scanner Sombre?

Introversion saw real success with Early Access title Prison Architect, a title that's shifted well over 2m units. So why did its next title shift only 7,500 units in three months?

Job News Aug 7th, 2017

Metroid fan project developer picked up by Ori maker Moon Studios

Milton Guasti will be working on level design for Ori and the Will of the Wisps

News Aug 7th, 2017

Final Fantasy XIV and Nier Automata called out for rise in Square Enix digital revenue

MMO expansion causes rise in Final Fantasy XIV users, as well as net sales and operating revenue for period

News Aug 7th, 2017

New faces in the Steam Top Ten as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its reign at No.1

Clapfoot's Foxhole debuts at No.5 while a newly-released The Long Dark comes in at eighth place

Industry Icon Aug 4th, 2017

Warren Spector: “I always say I'm the luckiest guy in the games business"

The development legend on making games, education and working with Disney

News Aug 4th, 2017

Digital sales dip 21 per cent at Sega

This side of the business brought in ¥9.5bn in the Q1 2018

News Aug 4th, 2017

PC revenue up 24 per cent at Activision Blizzard, company has 407m MAUs in total

Platform makes up 31 per cent of company's total revenue

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