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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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Job News
Jul 26th, 2017
GDC hires Katie Stern as new GM
Designers of Things co-founder to join Game Developers Conference organisers UBM as of next month
Indie Interview
Jul 25th, 2017
How Nosebleed hopes to please hardcore and casual gamers with Vostok Inc
Data & Research
Jul 20th, 2017
‘HTML5 can compete toe-to-toe with plugins,’ says Kongregate
Research from the browser games platform shows massive growth for the tech over the last few years
News
Jul 18th, 2017
Enter the Gungeon hits 1m sales
Procedurally generated bullet themed dungeon crawler goes platinum
News
Jul 17th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam charts AGAIN as it shoots past GTA V’s concurrent player figures
SteamSpy data shows PUBG beating GTA's peak player figures, and it closing in on Fallout 4's
Job News
Jul 10th, 2017
Report: Thousands laid off at Microsoft
Cuts mostly to roles outside of US, center on IT, finance and legal teams
Data & Research
Jul 10th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Steam chart No.1 again as Stardew Valley returns to the Top Ten
Can anything put an end to the Early Access Battle Royale's reign?
Job News
Jul 26th, 2017
GDC hires Katie Stern as new GM
Designers of Things co-founder to join Game Developers Conference organisers UBM as of next month
Indie Interview
Jul 25th, 2017
How Nosebleed hopes to please hardcore and casual gamers with Vostok Inc
Data & Research
Jul 20th, 2017
‘HTML5 can compete toe-to-toe with plugins,’ says Kongregate
Research from the browser games platform shows massive growth for the tech over the last few years
News
Jul 18th, 2017
Enter the Gungeon hits 1m sales
Procedurally generated bullet themed dungeon crawler goes platinum
News
Jul 17th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam charts AGAIN as it shoots past GTA V’s concurrent player figures
SteamSpy data shows PUBG beating GTA's peak player figures, and it closing in on Fallout 4's
Job News
Jul 10th, 2017
Report: Thousands laid off at Microsoft
Cuts mostly to roles outside of US, center on IT, finance and legal teams
Data & Research
Jul 10th, 2017
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Steam chart No.1 again as Stardew Valley returns to the Top Ten
Can anything put an end to the Early Access Battle Royale's reign?
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