Hello there, I’m Alyssa. I’m the newest senior editor here at good ol’ Kotaku, as you’ve probably already ascertained from the headline. But did you know I’m also Italian? Don’t worry, I bring it up so often you’ll soon be convinced that pure tomato sauce runs through my veins.

Before this gig, I was an editor at GamesRadar for a little over three years, with the last year focused almost entirely on writing long-form features, previews, and interviews. GamesRadar is where I went drink-for-drink with Geralt of Rivia, interviewed the team behind the first trans woman character in Apex Legends, and incessantly bitched and moaned about Overwatch 2. Prior to that, I was the associate editor of an interactive content blog for a company called Ceros. And before that, I got my Masters in Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, where my dissertation identified a queer and trans-led indie gaming movement that mimicked the queercore punk movement of the 1990s.