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Freelance writer, journo and photographer // Done books about RuneScape, Assassin's Creed and Dead Island 2 // Words – www.thegamesbiz.com Pictures – www.snapsbycalvin.co.uk Linktree – www.linktr.ee/Alexcalvin

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Same as the Democrats in the US, Labour feels it is entitled to votes from certain groups while doing absolutely nothing to win them over. They purged the left and guess what? The left have gone elsewhere (and ate their lunch)

27.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

12.02.2026 02:45 — 👍 6544    🔁 1483    💬 72    📌 79

This shit rocks

28.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 1204    🔁 150    💬 36    📌 0

Neom 2026: Line Go Down

26.01.2026 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

14.01.2026 07:55 — 👍 862    🔁 141    💬 162    📌 60

Hey Stephen, the quote in the article about that legendary investor is seemingly from The Wrap discussing Gordon Crawford when he retired in 2012. He was an early Activision investor.

14.01.2026 08:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very much like Biden's government with Trump, Starmer seems to view "my sworn political enemy has committed an easy-to-prove criminal act" as some sort of moral conundrum rather than a two-for-one layup

07.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 479    🔁 83    💬 5    📌 1

Hearing chat that Ubisoft financials were delayed because of (unfounded) fears that Rayman was in the Epstein files. Speaking to investors, CEO Yves Guillemot said that "Monsieur Rayman is 'armless"

21.11.2025 08:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ugg x Star Wars collab incoming

19.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Had a chat with Unity about their plan to win back the games industry after *those* ill-fated decisions

19.11.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
11.11.2025 08:43 — 👍 1668    🔁 488    💬 5    📌 9

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

05.11.2025 05:22 — 👍 56615    🔁 6753    💬 642    📌 226

Games industry in 2010s: We've got a new genre of hard game where you're gonna die a lot, but can get your stuff back if you're careful.

Games industry in 2020s: We've got a new kind of hard game where once you die, you've basically lost everything you had forever. You're also gonna die a lot.

04.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I genuinely cannot wait to read the funniest S1 filing since WeWork

03.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good to know that the only thing standing between me and wasting huge sums of money as a business success guy is being kicked in the head by a horse, hard

29.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

George, have you considered that the law doesn't apply to you if you're mega-rich?

29.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“She would make a great lap cap for a senior, for example, or for children who want a beanbag style gentle soft beautiful cat”

“She would make a great lap cap for a senior, for example, or for children who want a beanbag style gentle soft beautiful cat”

This phrasing from a pet adoption listing has stuck with me for days somehow

22.10.2025 07:07 — 👍 232    🔁 35    💬 8    📌 2

Videogamer is experiencing an increasingly common condition called Atari-itus. Sad to see. Usually fatal.

15.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's life without a little risk?

09.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello! I wrote this op-ed because I've fielded some awkward requests from devs and PR (who shall remain anonymous) this year and I think it's indicative of a wider issue in the game industry that stems from some folks not fully understanding the role of reporters.

THOUGHTS on Game Dev Dot Com:

06.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 55    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 2

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

30.09.2025 01:48 — 👍 6534    🔁 1572    💬 92    📌 21

Had a blast chatting to Stone – curious whether Peter Pan has the massive audience that Second Star thinks it has, but if there's anyone that can make a licensed IP works, it's this group of TT vets.

30.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats to everyone involved in this, in particular whichever management consultant intern made millions telling them that this was a great idea

22.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These people are such fucking losers lol

18.09.2025 13:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Idiots, and they're probably using it for dumb things.

17.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes look, ok, I see what you're trying to say, but also

04.09.2025 20:32 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1

It took Hollow Knight five years to get more than 20k CCU on Steam. Silksong? 18 minutes, and it now has a higher CCU record on the platform than its predecessor (by around 3k).

It's been out for 18 minutes and for most of that time, Steam hasn't been working. FUCK

04.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UM, GUYS

04.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1