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 Sep 22nd, 2025

Report: Borderlands 4 has sold 1.3m copies on Steam

On the platform alone, it has generated over $80 million in revenue

News Sep 22nd, 2025

Balatro and Abiotic Factor sold 3m copies in H1

Publisher PlayStack reported a 52 per cent increase in revenue

News Sep 22nd, 2025

Xbox says 2025 marks its "largest investment in Game Pass"

ID boss Chris Charla says that a lot of its developer partners end up bringing multiple titles to the service after their first experience

News Sep 19th, 2025

Nvidia invests $5bn in Intel

“This historic collaboration tightly couples Nvidia's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel’s CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem"

News Sep 19th, 2025

Discord, Steam, Twitch and Reddit bosses called to testify before US Congress

The hearings are related to the "radicalisation of online forum users" following the murder of Charlie Kirk

News Sep 19th, 2025

Valve ending Steam support for Windows 32-bit next year

Onlyu 001 per cent of the platform's userbase will be affected

News Sep 18th, 2025

Balatro dev bumps update to avoid crunch

"I am working slowly, but I like it that way"

News Sep 18th, 2025

It's now easier for devs to see impact of discounts on Steam

Valve has introduced more data for studios, including how much revenue a game has generated in a sale per day

News Sep 18th, 2025

Kamiya: Scalebound would have been different with a Japanese publisher

“Japanese companies tend to be more open to new challenges"

News Sep 16th, 2025

IGDA appoints Limpho Moeti as its chair

The developer organisation has also brought in a new vice chair and secretary

News Sep 16th, 2025

CHARTS: Borderlands 4 debuts at No.1 on Steam

This is despite reports of performance issues with the looter shooter

News Sep 16th, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now sold 4.4m copies

But it has 'officially' shifted 3.3 million units

News Sep 15th, 2025

Initiative boss Gallagher leaves Xbox

He joined Microsoft back in 2018

News Sep 15th, 2025

Poncle launched publishing arm to "give something back" to indies

"Basically, we got very lucky with Vampire Survivors"

News Sep 15th, 2025

Hades 2 leaving Early Access later this month

"[This] is our team's first-ever sequel, and we've been giving it everything we've got for more than four and a half years"

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