DANIEL DEANGELO
Freelance Writer
BIO
My Story
Daniel DeAngelo is a freelance gaming news and opinion writer and editor who has written for publications including GameRant and similar sites.
Gaming and writing are his two greatest passions, and he’s always eager to explore both through his work. Having lived most of his life in Florida, he graduated from the University of Tampa in 2018. His career began with an internship with Study Breaks magazine, a San Antonio-based publication targeted at college students.
Since then, he’s written for various online gaming publications, with his most significant contributions being to GameRant and Hardcore Droid, an Android gaming publication. He initially joined GameRant as a news contributor, but he also wrote numerous feature-length “GR Original” articles focusing on more opinion-based content. Meanwhile, Daniel joined Hardcore Droid as a game reviewer in 2020. He was quickly promoted to Editor and then became Editor-in-Chief in late 2022.
PORTFOLIO
Best Android RPGs of All Time
Published on Hardcore Droid on May 14, 2021, I detailed the 15 best role-playing games available on Android devices, including mobile exclusives and ports of classic PC games. It remains a personal favorite among my contributions to Hardcore Droid.
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Dominion Review
Published on Hardcore Droid on February 25, 2024, this is a review of the digital version of Dominion. The first ever deck-building card game, its digital version reales on Google Play in early 2024
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Now’s The Perfect Time For an Elder Scrolls RTS
Published on Game Rant on October 19, 2023, I make the case for a real-time strategy spinoff of the Bethesda Softworks Elder Scrolls series. I cited the precedent of popular TES-themed mods for strategy games like Medieval II: Total War and Crusader Kings II as evidence that such a game would be successful.
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Why Origins-Style Backgrounds May Return in Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
An example of my news coverage of BioWare's Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which was at the time still known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.
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OTHER ARTICLES
Click the links below to check out other non-fiction articles on various sites.
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"FIXATION"
In this short story, a young woman becomes convinced that her sister's death is somehow connected to an antique mirror she'd been restoring.
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"IMMOLATION"
A short story in the form of an aria, the narrator has some disturbing ideas about what's best for humanity.
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"A GARGOYLE'S TALE"
This work of short fiction is a dark fantasy set in a world ruled by gargoyles. When two young gargoyle warriors uncover a dark secret, one of them will face a terrible choice.
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GAME DESIGN DOCS.
