Alex Forbes-Calvin
Alex Forbes-Calvin writes about how technology and publishing decisions shape the business of video games, with a focus on practical lessons for studios, publishers, and partners. He covers the technology beat for GamesIndustry.biz, treating tools, platforms, and workflows less as abstract innovations and more as levers that determine whether a project finds its audience.
Technology coverage for a trade audience
Alex’s work sits firmly in the trade press rather than consumer tech or entertainment reporting. He writes for people working in and around game development and publishing, so his technology pieces look at what new tools and platforms mean for production schedules, budgets, and commercial risk. Instead of focusing on specs or hype, he highlights how technology choices affect collaboration, resourcing, and long-term support for games.
That perspective keeps his coverage grounded in how teams get games made and shipped. He is more interested in whether a technology solves a concrete production or business problem than in being first to a trend.
As a result, his stories often read as operational case studies or strategy notes rather than product reviews.
Backing a winner with Far Far West
In his feature on how Fireshine Games backed a winner with Far Far West, Alex follows a single title from pitch to breakout success and shows how publisher support and tooling decisions interact at each stage.
He examines how the publisher evaluated the project, what gave them confidence to commit resources, and how they worked with the development team to position the game. The piece treats the game as evidence of a repeatable model, not a one-off stroke of luck.
Within that story, technology sits alongside marketing, funding, and production as part of one decision stack. Alex uses the relationship between Fireshine and the developers to show how publishers assess risk, when they step in with hands-on support, and how they think about portfolio balance.
The result is a detailed look at the mechanics behind a “backed a winner” headline, useful to both publishers and studios planning their next pitch.
People-focused, practical storytelling
Across his technology beat, Alex writes in a feature-led style that foregrounds the people making calls on tools, platforms, and partnerships. His stories tend to be built around decision-makers explaining what they did, why they did it, and what they would change next time.
That approach turns abstract topics like infrastructure or pipelines into concrete choices made under pressure, with clear upsides and trade-offs.
He also draws out practical guidance from his sources, such as how to prepare a project so a publisher can meaningfully back it, or how to align technical ambition with commercial reality. For communications teams, he is a fit when a story can support that kind of detail: technology with clear operational impact, teams willing to talk through their process, and outcomes that can be measured in shipped games rather than promises.
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