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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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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
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
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
Steam has 67 million monthly active users
Platform has attracted 1.5m new users a month since January 2016
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
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
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
Steam has 67 million monthly active users
Platform has attracted 1.5m new users a month since January 2016
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