Alanah Pearce

Alanah Pearce (born 24 August 1993) is an Australian video game writer, content creator, actor and former journalist. From 2020 to 2024, Pearce worked as a writer 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 produced videos focused on video games.

Alanah Pearce was born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, on 24 August 1993. Pearce was raised in Cairns, and later spent nine years in Brisbane. 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. She earned a bachelor's degree studying mass communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

From 2012 to 2015, Pearce wrote gaming news for around a dozen news outlets, including Impulse Gamer, Zelda Universe, the BBC, and worked stints at Australian radio and television stations. She launched a YouTube channel in 2012, where she publishes game reviews and personal videos.

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. In 2017, she replaced Naomi Kyle as host of IGN's Daily Fix gaming news program. 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. Pearce cohosted the SXSW Gaming Awards alongside Rich Campbell in 2018.

After departing IGN in 2018, Pearce joined production company Rooster Teeth. She regularly appeared in videos for Funhaus, a division of Rooster Teeth which produced videos focused on video games, and cohosted the company's Inside Gaming news program starting in 2019. She left Rooster Teeth in October 2020.

In November 2020, Pearce joined Sony's Santa Monica Studio as a video game writer. She provided consulting on three video games and completed other work on two video games prior to joining the studio. She faced harassment on social media following the studio's decision to delay the release of God of War Ragnarök. In November, she was selected among the Forbes 30 Under 30 for gaming.

Pearce did voice acting for Gears 5 (2019), Afterparty (2019), and Dispatch (2025), appeared in Dead Take (2025), and lent her voice and likeness to a character in Cyberpunk 2077 (2020).