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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
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Jun 28th, 2019
Prison Architect surpasses four million players globally
Console developer Double Eleven taking over the project following Paradox sale
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News
Jun 27th, 2019
India's Reliance Entertainment reduces ownership to 14.2 per cent of Codemasters
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019
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Jun 24th, 2019
Games industry roundup: GAME Digital board pushes for Sports Direct sale, Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, and FTC investigating YouTube
15 articles from PocketGamer.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockchainGamer.biz
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Jun 24th, 2019
Streaming services not likely to take over the games industry as a whole, says WBIE president
Job News
Jun 24th, 2019
Blizzard's global esports director Kim Phan has left the company
Less than a month after Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer departed the firm for Epic Games.
News
Jun 19th, 2019
US president hopeful Bernie Sanders backs game developer unionisation
Democratic Senator says workers should be reaping the rewards games brought in in the US last year
News
Jun 19th, 2019
Report: Amazon is letting its dev teams use game engines other than Lumberyard
Developers say firm is struggling with maintaining the middleware
News
Jun 14th, 2019
Jagex subscription sales up 22.9 per cent in 2018
Offsets declines in microtransaction and advertising revenue
News
Jun 10th, 2019
E3 2019: Ubisoft's Guillemot on why the firm is early on Google's Stadia games streaming platform
"People are open to new technologies, and so you can try new things"
Prison Architect surpasses four million players globally
Console developer Double Eleven taking over the project following Paradox sale
India's Reliance Entertainment reduces ownership to 14.2 per cent of Codemasters
Racing firm's CEO Frank Sagnier says that OnRush has been played by 2.5m people as of March 2019
Games industry roundup: GAME Digital board pushes for Sports Direct sale, Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, and FTC investigating YouTube
15 articles from PocketGamer.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockchainGamer.biz
Streaming services not likely to take over the games industry as a whole, says WBIE president
Blizzard's global esports director Kim Phan has left the company
Less than a month after Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer departed the firm for Epic Games.
US president hopeful Bernie Sanders backs game developer unionisation
Democratic Senator says workers should be reaping the rewards games brought in in the US last year
Report: Amazon is letting its dev teams use game engines other than Lumberyard
Developers say firm is struggling with maintaining the middleware
Jagex subscription sales up 22.9 per cent in 2018
Offsets declines in microtransaction and advertising revenue
E3 2019: Ubisoft's Guillemot on why the firm is early on Google's Stadia games streaming platform
"People are open to new technologies, and so you can try new things"
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