In 2012, Farrese, along with Jill Murray, won the Writers Guild of America award for outstanding achievement in videogame writing for Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. He also wrote Assassin's Creed: Rogue. Before joining Ubisoft, Farrese, a fan of the series, worked for a decade as a freelance writer, editor, and game designer, primarily on table-top RPG-related projects such as rulebooks, world books, adventure books, and magazine articles, he co-authored several World of Warcraft and Legend of the Five Rings RPG books, published short stories, and founded his own RPG publishing company.