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@alexforbescalvin.bsky.social

Freelance writer, journo and photographer // Authored 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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You're welcome :D

21.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

9/11

11.07.2025 20:49 — 👍 789    🔁 135    💬 2    📌 6
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Palestine Action never carried out or threatened to carry out any violent action, and yet are now a ’terrorist organisation’.

Meanwhile, the Spectator…

05.07.2025 09:54 — 👍 704    🔁 279    💬 40    📌 19

Relatable haha. But yeah I can do that. DM me when you're free at the show

02.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yo!

02.07.2025 08:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It's deeply funny to me that Future Publishing has spent over £39 million on stock buybacks in 2025 so far and... this is what the company's share price looks like for the year.

01.07.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's honestly one of the funniest shows I have ever watched. Genuinely pops into my head on a daily basis.

01.07.2025 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sands of Time is an absolute classic, but I cannot see this making back, like, seven or eight years of development costs? It's not even being made in India anymore; this is going to cost so so so much money!

17.06.2025 10:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once again on GI, this time chatting to the co-founder of Aonic to see what the company's plan is and how it plans to avoid Embracer Group's missteps.

16.06.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Guess one key difference is that No Man's Sky was overmarketed and overhyped whereas Mindseye just... wasn't... promoted at all? From what I can tell?

11.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

From what I have seen, it has a very 'mid-PS2' era vibe to it

11.06.2025 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apple heard we wanted greater transparency from its business and got confused

10.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Erm this one went over my head (shocker)

10.06.2025 07:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Пиздец!!

10.06.2025 06:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was just putting Orin to bed and he said, “I don’t know how to use my life,” so now there’s three of us in the house like this.

09.06.2025 04:34 — 👍 7951    🔁 347    💬 110    📌 17

Why did the photographer with ADHD suck? Because they have poor focus 🥁🥁

06.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This would have been a great time to plug your Substack, George

06.06.2025 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Packed issue this week, if I should say so myself 🙌

06.06.2025 09:07 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Notice how Super Mario and all his supposed “enemies” are happy to get together and go go-kart racing? Wake up. It’s all kayfabe

06.06.2025 04:11 — 👍 7441    🔁 1050    💬 80    📌 34

Switch 2 this, Switch 2 that.

How about you Switch 2 the word of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ?

04.06.2025 10:06 — 👍 51    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

As a photographer and a games journalist I feel I am loosely qualified to say that photo modes are bullshit. It's just screenshoting with some extra steps.

03.06.2025 17:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This shocks me so little

02.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Buy me dinner and I'll cut off your hands xo

02.06.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The thing is, it *is* great. And it's way more consistent than anything before it. But it has definitely lost something as a result.

02.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah man, this would rule!

02.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm a big fan of the first four MI films because each director has a different vision for what they should be. They're all over the place. One is paranoid post-Cold War, two is mental, three is... a JJ Abrams film and four is a modern gritty blockbuster. The new run is great, but it loses something

02.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Great video, aside from the Mission Impossible 2 slander. It's definitely not the best in the series but it has to be one of the most fun to watch. It's so stupid (and great).

02.06.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To illustrate how poor this is, thousands of random people spamming commands on Twitch managed to complete Pokémon Red in just over 16 days

02.06.2025 07:48 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Never had the pleasure of working with Unbound/Boundless but this situation is absolutely fucked.

01.06.2025 07:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back in my day they were just magical, simple as.

31.05.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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