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Anthony John Agnello

Anthony John Agnello

Former Contributing Editor
Author/Co-Author of 799 articles

Anthony John Agnello is a writer living in New York. He works as the Community Manager of Joystiq.com and his writing has appeared in The AV Club, Salon, Edge, and many others. He is patiently waiting for Namco to finish Klonoa 3.

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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate review

More than two years after hitting Nintendo 3DS in Japan, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate finally makes its way to the US to try and bring the series to new players. Thanks to subtle but affecting changes, the game is more welcoming than any of its predecessors.
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Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell review

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell’s shift in character focus and overall mediocrity makes for a deeply disappointing follow up to Saints Row IV.
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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected review

Saints Row IV is a fun game, and it’s a funny game. While it’s absurd comedy about an alien invasion is solid on a surface level, it’s the underlying perspective on the sum total of video games that makes it genius.
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Resident Evil HD Remaster Review

This new HD re-mastering of the 2002 Gamecube version of Resident Evil is the best way there is to enjoy Shinji Mikami’s puzzling horror thanks to admirable presentation and smartly reconsidered controls.
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Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix review

Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD ReMix is an admirable preservation, warts and all, of gaming's weirdest, most personal success story.
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Bayonetta 2 review

Bayonetta 2's gargantuan barrage of sex, violence, and surrealism sets the mind on fire in ways most other action games never dream of, let alone on Nintendo's game-hungry Wii U.
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax review

An excellent sequel to Persona 4 Arena, Ultimax broadens both the accessibility and the technical mastery of its fights while making welcome tweaks to its single-player content. Unfortunately it's even more inaccessible to series newcomers.
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The Evil Within review

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami turns in his first horror game in nearly a decade. Rather than a triumphant return, The Evil Within is a naked effort to recapture past highs that fails almost entirely.
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Alien: Isolation review

A remarkable work of science fiction tension and stress, Alien: Isolation's brilliant first half is almost eclipsed by an abysmal second following what should be its climax.
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EA Sports UFC review

EA's second attempt at an MMA video game series is admirably focused and creates an impressively versatile control scheme to approximate the sport, but it fails to communicate how to use those controls in any meaningful way.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

Beenox's fourth Spider-Man game in as many years isn't an outright failure but its bafflingly dumb design choices prevent it from being the guilty pleasure it might have been.
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Shoot the core: How Takamasa Shiba plans to preserve the old ways with ‘Drakengard 3’

Drakengard series producer and co-creator Takamasa Shiba chats with Digital Trends about his plans for Drakengard 3 and his attitude toward shifting desires in the video games space for more casual-friendly fare.
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Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate review

Batman: Arkham Origins -- Blackgate is a moody architectural success from the creative leads behind Metroid Prime, but it's not the great game it could have been.
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Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified review

Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified is dragged down not by a strange campaign, basic multiplayer, or a rushed development. The yoke around the game's neck is actually it's name, a misleading franchise title that does a disservice to its action.
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Dynasty Warriors 8 review

Dynasty Warriors returns again, another absurdly theatrical retelling of the ancient Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel in Tecmo Koei's decade old series. That's no bad thing, and this old dog has even learned some sweet new tricks.
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NCAA Football 14 review

NCAA Football 14 enters its super senior season after seven years of development on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Does it graduate with honors or does it coast? Electronic Arts doesn't deliver a redshirt, but doesn't deliver a champion either.
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‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2014’ preview: Konami passes on the easy goal and focuses on the long game

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 makes the jump to the Fox Engine, the new tech powering Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The new gear doesn't seem to be enough to topple FIFA Soccer.
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A closer look at ‘Thief,’ the classic reborn

Eidos Montreal is resurrecting yet another classic action role-playing game in Thief for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Steampunk burglar Garret impresses.
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Guacamelee! review

Drinbox Studios was the secret star of the PS Vita launch in 2012 thanks to its game Mutant Blobs Attack. Now the studio is back on Sony's machines with Guacamaelee!, a grand luchador quest to save the lands of the living and the dead built in the mold of Metroid.
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Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel review

The Army of Two series was born in a time when cooperative play wasn't a major priority in video game development. Years later, Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, is a game without an identity of any kind, a gross exercise in the medium's worst habits.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us review

There are plenty of great fighting games starring the Marvel heroes, but not many starring DC Comics' icons. NetherRealm is responsible for one of the worst, 2008's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, but all's forgiven thanks to the excellent Injustice: Gods Among Us.
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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen Review

2012's Dragon's Dogma was overshadowed by similar looking peers like Dark Souls and Skyrim, but Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is something more than a second chance. It's a perfected version of the original game, with a second, decidedly different adventure built alongside it.
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Resident Evil: Revelations HD review

Resident Evil: Revelations was roundly ignored when it came out in Nintendo 3DS back at the beginning of 2012, but Capcom's giving its horror game another shot. With an HD facelift, the game proves a solid entry in the Wii U library and a palette cleanser after Resident Evil 6.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate Review

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was well made but lacking its own identity. In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, developer Mercurysteam has found its own voice, making a game that feels like a part of the series' grand history while also being unique.
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Resident Evil’s creator reveals ‘The Evil Within,’ his “pure survival horror” game

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is returning to the genre, survival horror games, that skyrocketed his career in the mid-'90s with The Enemy Within.
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Disney banks on more retro remakes with Genesis classic ‘Castle of Illusion’

Who needs new games when you've got classics to remake? Hot on the heels of DuckTales remastered, Disney has announced a remake of Castle of Illusion.
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The $ 1 million Call of Duty Championship concludes: Finals Recap, Fariko Impact takes the prize

Fariko Impact took the worldwide title at the Call of Duty Championship on Sunday, beating out rival team EnVyUs and walking away with a $400,000 grand prize.
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Indie smash ‘Fez’ jumps dimensions, shifting to Steam and possibly PS Vita

Fez is making its way to more platforms, starting with a May release on Valve's Steam. Creator Phil Fish is even talking to Sony about a PS Vita edition.
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‘Sound Shapes’ DLC review: The painful sweetness of the single

A brand new free update and a $2 downloadable expansion extend the spectacular Sound Shapes campaign, but the best parts are almost painfully brief.
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‘Sound Shapes’ drops the mic with enough new DLC to double the size of the game

Sound Shapes players that wanted more of the curated "albums" that made up the game's campaign have more to celebrate in the upcoming expansion to the game.
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Preview: Assassin’s Creed IV hoists a Black Flag in an open-world Caribbean

Ubisoft is jumping to yet another time period for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and putting you in the boots of an assassin pirate on the high seas.
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Army of Two The Devil’s Cartel preview: On shooters and their relationship to fast food chains

Army of Two The Devil's Cartel drops the self-seriousness of past entries opting for some light humor, but it doesn't elevate the game above fast food status.
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Crysis 3 review: Crytek’s shooter is an expertly made toy soldier with no soul

As satisfying as it is to play through Crysis 3's dystopian shoot outs, it's hard not to wish it were something more. Crysis 3 gives you plenty to do, but never a good reason why.
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Fuse preview: The creator of Ratchet & Clank is a square peg trying to prove it can fit in a round hole

The game formerly known as Overstrike is just weeks away from release, so how is Insomniac's first multiplatform game Fuse shaping up?
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How an unlikely writing duo penned Gears of War: Judgment across continents

Writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell discuss creating Gears of War: Judgment with studios in North Carolina and Poland while also living in two different cities.
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Disney Infinity preview: The Magic Kingdom declares war on Skylanders and Minecraft

Disney Interactive announced its most ambitious video game to date on Tuesday. The company and developer Avalanche Studios are calling Disney Infinity a gaming platform rather than a game, a multi-part product that is equal parts Skylanders and Minecraft.
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LEGO Lord of the Rings review: Traveller’s Tales finds fertile ground in Middle-earth

Traveller's Tales second big LEGO game in 2012 doesn't quite capture the grand story of its inspiration but it does build a wider open world to play in than any other game in the series. LEGO Lord of the Rings is worth exploring.
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Need For Speed Most Wanted review: The opposite side of Criterion’s open world racing

While the sterile seriousness of the Need For Speed series has seeped into its formula, Criterion has made another spectacular game.
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