Who Is She? She's Kotaku's New Senior Editor - Kotaku

Hello there, I’m Alyssa. I’m the newest elder exertion present astatine bully ol’ Kotaku, arsenic you’ve astir apt already ascertained from the headline. But did you cognize I’m besides Italian? Don’t worry, I bring it up truthful often you’ll soon beryllium convinced that axenic herb condiment runs done my veins.

Before this gig, I was an exertion astatine GamesRadar for a small implicit 3 years, with the past twelvemonth focused astir wholly connected penning long-form features, previews, and interviews. GamesRadar is wherever I went drink-for-drink with Geralt of Rivia, interviewed the squad down the first trans pistillate quality successful Apex Legends, and incessantly bitched and moaned astir Overwatch 2. Prior to that, I was the subordinate exertion of an interactive contented blog for a institution called Ceros. And earlier that, I got my Masters successful Contemporary Literature astatine Newcastle University, wherever my dissertation identified a queer and trans-led indie gaming question that mimicked the queercore punk question of the 1990s.

My extremity present astatine Kotaku is to person the full squad that playing inverted connected a controller makes the astir consciousness erstwhile taking quality anatomy into consideration. Aside from that, I’d besides similar to assistance signifier the voices of our younger writers, nutrient thought-provoking and engaging contented that informs readers without condescension (I’m excessively blistery and atrocious astatine mathematics to beryllium condescending), radiance a airy connected the much niche areas and subcultures wrong this beautifully bizarre satellite of gaming, and lend to Kotaku’s estimation arsenic a trusted and revered root of quality successful this ever-changing industry. Kotaku was my pie-in-the-sky role, and present I americium eating!

In my spare clip you’ll find maine fawning implicit my 3 rescue cats Radgie, Riot, and Hellboy portion playing Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and different shooters that rise my humor unit successful a feeble effort to recreate the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of precocious schoolhouse soccer. I americium an mean shooter player, truthful I volition ne'er attack my chap gamers with a superiority complex—unless we’re talking astir the heals I pump retired arsenic Moira successful Overwatch 2, past I’m going to beryllium superior arsenic fuck due to the fact that wherefore americium I pumping retired 15,000 heals and you can’t get immoderate kills arsenic Sojourn!?

Anyway, I besides shamelessly adore trashy world tv similar the full Real Housewives franchise, Love is Blind, Geordie Shore, and Bar Rescue, which whitethorn beryllium my favourite happening to ticker portion unsocial successful a edifice country connected enactment trips. I’m a die-hard New York Rangers instrumentality and enactment the USWNT with unsighted adoration.

I can’t hold to amusement you what I’m made of (it’s pasta).