Alanah Pearce | |
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Born | Cairns, Queensland, Australia | 24 August 1993
Education | Queensland University of Technology |
Occupation(s) | Video game writer, journalist |
Years active | 2012–present |
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Alanah Pearce (born 24 August 1993) is an Australian video game writer and former journalist. Since 2020, Pearce has worked for American game developer Santa Monica Studio.
Pearce has reported on video games for various news outlets including entertainment news website IGN . She worked at production company Rooster Teeth from 2018 to 2020, during which she hosted the Inside Gaming news program and was involved with its Funhaus division, which produces videos focused on video games.
Alanah Pearce was born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, on 24 August 1993. [1] [2] Pearce was raised in Cairns, and later spent nine years in Brisbane. [1] From a young age, she was interested in writing and video games, doing reviews of video games in her diaries. While working at a call center, she found a job listing for a volunteer games journalist position that inspired a career in journalism. [3] She earned a bachelor's degree studying mass communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. [4]
From 2012 to 2015, Pearce wrote gaming news for around a dozen news outlets, including Impulse Gamer, Zelda Universe, the BBC, [4] and worked stints at Australian radio and television stations. [5] She launched a YouTube channel in 2012, where she publishes game reviews and personal videos. [4] [6]
Feeling the Australian video game industry was too small, Pearce moved to the United States in 2015. She began work as an editor and writer for IGN later that year. [4] [7] In 2017, she replaced Naomi Kyle as host of IGN's Daily Fix gaming news program. [4] Later that year, she was involved in a staff walkout until the company issued a statement addressing sexual harassment allegations made by former editor Kallie Plagge. [8] [9] Pearce cohosted the SXSW Gaming Awards alongside Rich Campbell in 2018. [10]
After departing IGN in 2018, Pearce joined production company Rooster Teeth. She regularly appeared in videos for Funhaus, a division of Rooster Teeth which produces videos focused on video games, and cohosted the company's Inside Gaming news program starting in 2019. [11] She left Rooster Teeth in October 2020. [12]
In November 2020, Pearce joined Sony's Santa Monica Studio as a video game writer. [13] She provided consulting on three video games and completed other work on two video games prior to joining the studio. [14] She faced harassment on social media following the studio's decision to delay the release of God of War Ragnarök . [15] [16] In September 2021, Pearce revealed that she was part of the development team behind Ragnarök. [17] In November, she was selected among the Forbes 30 Under 30 for gaming. [18] [19]
Pearce did voice acting for Gears 5 (2019) [13] and Afterparty (2019). [20] She also lent her voice and likeness to a character in Cyberpunk 2077 (2020). [21] [22]
Pearce is the host of the Play, Watch, Listen podcast, along with Troy Baker, Mike Bithell, and Austin Wintory. [23] She also hosts the podcasts Red Lips, Orange Car, Video Game Writing 101, and Voice Acting 101, and formerly hosted Idiots and a Broad. [24] She was a founding host of the Kinda Funny Xcast, but left the show several months after its premiere due to scheduling conflicts with her new job at Santa Monica Studio. [25]
Pearce participated in the Creator Clash 2 boxing event in April 2023, [26] beating content creator RIPmika by split decision. [27]
Pearce was briefly banned from Twitch following a DMCA takedown notice sent by Nintendo after she live-streamed herself reacting to already-published preview footage of its game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , five days before its release. [28]
Pearce appears as Halley in the 2024 film V/H/S/Beyond , in the final segment "Stowaway", directed by Kate Siegel and written by Mike Flanagan. [29]
Pearce credits video games with helping her deal with the effects of myalgic encephalomyelitis and tendinitis. [32] She has helped fundraise for AbleGamers, a charity dedicated to improving accessibility in video games. [33] [34] She co-hosted the inaugural Video Game Accessibility Awards with AbleGamers's chief operating officer Steven Spohn in November 2020, [35] [30] and returned to present the second event in March 2022. [31] [36]
In 2014, Pearce became the focus of news media after she wrote to the mothers of internet trolls who had sent her rape threats. [5] [37] [38] In 2019, she was subject to harassment after the Entertainment Software Association, the organiser of the E3 gaming expo, leaked the personal information of E3 2019 media attendees to the public. [39]
Pearce came out in June 2020; while she does not feel an attachment to any label, she felt best defined by the term pansexual. In July 2024, she made a video where she reflected and discussed her previous post. In the video she described herself as both pansexual and demisexual. [40]
Pearce was nominated for Content Creator of the Year at the Game Awards 2020. [41]
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The other enormous difficulty for me was knowing that I needed to move to the US to fully be ingrained in the industry, just because I felt the Australian industry was a little too small.