:Matt Casamassina

{{short description|American video game journalist}}

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| occupation = Global editorial games manager

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Matt Casamassina is a video game journalist, businessman, and novelist, and a founding editor of IGN.{{cite web |url=https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/73708/rogue-games-appoints-matt-casamassina-ceo/|title=Rogue Games appoints Matt Casamassina as new CEO |date=June 22, 2020 |website=PocketGamer.biz}} He quit working for IGN on April 23, 2010. In his time at the site, he was the author of many reviews and previews of games by video game developer and publisher Nintendo.{{cite web|url=http://club.ign.com/b/editor?username=Matt-IGN|title=Matt-IGN's articles|website=IGN}} He resides in Los Angeles, California, is married and has three children.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/mattign/status/8726937267 |title=Rocco Archer |last=Casamassina|first=Matt |website=Twitter |access-date=February 7, 2010}}{{failed verification|date=November 2020}}

Casamassina started in 1997 as editor of the website N64.com, which soon became the Nintendo 64 section of the IGN site{{cite web |url=http://games.ign.com/articles/679/679512p1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110194305/http://games.ign.com/articles/679/679512p1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 10, 2006 |title=How to Get a Job in the Videogame Industry: Videogame Journalist |date=January 6, 2006 |website=IGN}} and whose domain name now redirects to Nintendo's official website.

Casamassina also appeared on the G4 television program Attack of the Show! as a guest star{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/attack-of-the-show!/brian-savage-anberlin/episode/684521/summary.html |title=Attack of the Show!: Brian Savage, Anberlin Recap |date=March 23, 2006 |website=TV.com}} and as a character model in the Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark. He, along with Craig Harris, Chadd Chambers, and Peer Schneider, has become one of the main characters in the IGN-published webcomic Cubetoons.

Casamassina independently published his first novel, Dead Weight, in 2016. In 2017, Casamassina founded Rogue Games Inc., which has developed and released games such as Fisti-fluffs, The Pocket Arcade, and Under: Depths of Fear.{{cite web |title=Rogue Games |url=https://rogueco.com/ |access-date=May 14, 2021 |website=Rogue Games Inc.}}