Hannah Hoolihan
Hannah Hoolihan turns gaming and entertainment announcements into concrete buying advice, focusing on preorders, sales, and curated recommendations across IGN’s guides and commerce coverage. She works as a freelance writer with IGN’s guides and commerce teams, bringing together consumer-focused service writing and deep familiarity with games, film, and related media. She has covered entertainment since 2017 as a news writer, critic, and features writer, with experience that spans games, tech, film, and television.
Commerce-led coverage of games and entertainment
At IGN, Hoolihan’s core beat is commerce and guides content that helps readers decide what to buy and when. Her work regularly collects everything available to preorder after major gaming showcases, distilling PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo presentations into focused roundups of games, hardware, and special editions that can be reserved immediately. She writes shopping posts and gift guides that highlight notable releases and bundles, presenting prices, platforms, and retailer options in straightforward terms.
Across these pieces, she keeps the focus on clarity and utility, organizing long lists of products into digestible sections and calling out standout value or limited-time offers.
Hardware, platforms, and digital storefronts
Hoolihan covers deals and discounts across the major gaming hardware and platform ecosystem, with repeat attention to large retailer and platform-wide promotions. Her pieces on Best Buy’s sales spotlight Apple hardware and gaming devices, explaining how specific discounts compare against regular pricing and what condition buyers can expect from open-box items like the ROG Ally handheld.
She tracks platform-led events such as Xbox’s Spring Sale and GOG’s seasonal promotions, summarizing the breadth of discounted titles and flagging notable games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Disco Elysium within those lineups. She also follows subscription offerings like Humble Choice, breaking down the monthly PC library additions so readers can quickly see what genres and franchises are included before signing up or redeeming codes.
Price drops on individual titles, such as Resident Evil Requiem on PS5 at Amazon and Best Buy, are treated with the same practical lens, giving readers a clear snapshot of where the best deal is and how long it might last.
Collectibles and physical releases
Beyond digital games and hardware, Hoolihan devotes significant coverage to physical media and collectibles tied to major franchises. Her writing on 4K releases such as Mrs. Doubtfire details release timing, editions, and retailer options, positioning film reissues alongside her broader entertainment beat. She tracks new collectible lines like Fallout Funko Pop figures, explaining which characters and variants are included in upcoming waves and how to preorder them ahead of release.
In parallel, she writes about LEGO and other branded merchandise, as in her coverage of Lego’s Back to Hogwarts promotions, where she outlines the best deals, free gifts, and bonus points on offer for franchise-focused sets. Retail sales on physical PS5 games, including titles like God of War Ragnarök, are framed as opportunities to build a disc library at lower cost, with clear percentage-off figures and retailer specifics.
Across these stories, she treats collectibles and physical editions as part of the same purchase decision-making process as games and hardware, keeping emphasis on practical details over fandom commentary.
Broader entertainment writing and game guides
Alongside her commerce work, Hoolihan has a background in entertainment journalism that includes news, criticism, and features. Professional profiles and author pages note her experience as a film critic and news writer, and her bylines span multiple outlets across games and film, including Screen Rant, Collider, Rock Paper Shotgun, Fangoria, and other entertainment sites. She has also worked as a freelance guides writer, creating, updating, and managing wikis for games, a role that complements her commerce writing with structured, information-dense coverage of mechanics, progression, and systems.
This combination of guide work and commerce reporting means her gaming pieces are anchored both in how games play and how they are bought, making her a fit for projects that need precise, service-oriented coverage of releases, promotions, and long-tail engagement with titles.
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