Alessandro Fillari
Alessandro Fillari is a freelance writer and editor who focuses on the intersection of games, technology, and entertainment, with a through-line of close, hands-on reporting on action-heavy games and the creative decisions behind them. His work combines previews, reviews, and features that track how major franchises evolve, how new projects find their identity, and how industry trends shape what players experience on screen. He brings more than a decade of experience as an editor and producer at large games outlets to his current freelance coverage, giving his reporting a strong sense of context and production awareness.
Big action games and genre-defining series
Fillari’s core subject matter is the modern video game industry, with a particular emphasis on action games, horror, and other big-genre releases. He has written extensively about major franchises, including features on Ubisoft revisiting Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and the value of the classic Assassin’s Creed experience for the series. His portfolio includes coverage of games like Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted, where he reviews how a new version refreshes a familiar tower-defense formula for current platforms and audiences. Earlier in his career at GameSpot, he reviewed titles such as Hellblade, focusing on how its action-adventure design handles sensitive subject matter like mental health while still delivering a compelling narrative.
Across these pieces, he concentrates on how combat systems, narrative themes, and production values come together to define a game’s place within its genre.
Previews and hands-on reporting
A large portion of Fillari’s recent work is preview coverage drawn from direct hands-on time with in-development games.
He has produced early looks at releases such as Dying Light: The Beast, describing how the sequel pushes toward more aggressive combat and expands on the parkour-driven formula established by Techland. His preview of Kiborg: Arena presents the game as a brutal cyberpunk beat ’em up with roguelite elements, with attention to how its ultra-violent style and structure might appeal to fans of challenging action games.
He also covers emerging projects like God Save Birmingham, a medieval zombie apocalypse title, charting how the game gradually discovers its tone and vision across builds. Beyond action-driven games, his preview writing includes monster-collection RPGs such as Dragon Quest Monsters 4, where he outlines its large roster of collectable creatures and its role in sustaining a long-running franchise. These pieces consistently focus on mechanics, pacing, and atmosphere, giving clear impressions of how early systems and level designs could translate into full releases.
Reviews and narrative-focused criticism
Fillari’s reviews tend to balance mechanical assessment with attention to storytelling and theme.
At GameSpot he wrote and edited reviews that looked closely at how games like Hellblade integrate depictions of mental illness into combat, exploration, and audio design, arguing that those choices deepen players’ understanding of the character’s struggle. During his time at CNET he contributed dozens of articles as a games-focused editor, including reviews and guides for video games alongside selected features and reviews for film and television. In more recent work at IGN he reviews projects like Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted, evaluating how visual updates, balance changes, and new content affect the appeal of a well-known property.
Throughout his criticism he writes in straightforward, descriptive prose, with an emphasis on explaining what a game asks the player to do, how it feels to play, and where its storytelling succeeds or falls short.
Industry context and cross-media coverage
Fillari brings a long editorial background to his freelance work, having previously served as an editor and producer responsible for planning specialized coverage, analyzing gaming trends, and coordinating opportunities between editorial teams and game publishers. In those roles he worked across news, features, interviews, reviews, and guides, often helping to shape event coverage for conventions and major industry moments.
His current practice as a freelance writer, editor, and producer extends that experience across multiple outlets, with published work on IGN, Game Developer, Ars Technica, Paste, GamesHub, MMORPG.com, Engadget, and GamesRadar.
Author biographies describe him as covering the games, tech, and entertainment industries for well over a decade, with particular interest in action games, blockbuster movies, and the broader video game industry. He also works as a consultant, helping clients develop tech, gaming, and entertainment content, which reinforces the practical, production-aware tone of his journalism.
Taken together, his body of work shows a journalist who is most active where game design, audience expectations, and industry trends meet, using previews, reviews, and features to explain how new releases fit into that landscape.
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