Casey DeFreitas

Casey DeFreitas is the Deputy Editor on the guides team for IGN writing and overseeing strategy guides for a huge variety of games. Overall, she has ten years of professional experience writing video game reviews, news, features, covering events, and hosting or guesting on podcasts and live shows like Nintendo Voice Chat. Though she plays almost every genre of game on every console, Casey has an affinity for Nintendo and RPGs, with particular expertise in Pokemon and Monster Hunter. Catch her watching anime or obsessively playing a game along with the one she's currently writing a guide for in her free time. Outside of video games, Casey also slays dragons in tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons, and might catch a pose with some "living dragons" in the outdoors of her home state of Florida - like alligators, snakes, lizards, and pet chickens.