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Earnest Cavalli

Earnest Cavalli

Former Digital Trends Contributor
Author/Co-Author of 341 articles

Earnest Cavalli has been writing about games, tech and digital culture since 2005 for outlets including Wired, Joystiq, Digital Trends and the Portland Mercury. In meatspace reality, he’s a tall, charming cat owner with a worrying dedication to an ornery, gray ball of fur and claws.

Persona 4 Golden review

With the release of Persona 4 Golden, Atlus hopes to revive the best roleplaying title of the PlayStation 2 generation for a new era of handhelds, inadvertently trumping all modern roleplaying games in the process.
Gaming Reviews

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time review

Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time is the video game equivalent of a worn, old blanket: It's familiar, it's comfortable, and it proves that a lack of novelty isn't always a bad thing.
Gaming Reviews
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Assassin’s Creed III DLC brings us the story of evil George Washington over the next three months

Ubisoft has issued official release dates for Assassin's Creed III's upcoming Tyranny of King Washington DLC trilogy, and happily we won't be waiting long.
Gaming News
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The fat lady will sing for Geralt in The Witcher 3

To the surprise of very few, CD Projekt RED has revealed that The Witcher 3 is currently in production.
Gaming Guides
The Walking Dead: Episode 3

Walking Dead: Episode 4 writer discusses romance, death, and the imminent Season Two

We talk to Gary Whitta, writer of The Walking Dead: Episode 4, about the series' increasingly dark tone, and the possibility of a sequel.
Gaming Features
Okami HD

Capcom serves up a release date for Okami HD

Though it's not exactly a scary game, Capcom has decided to release the HD remake of Okami at the tail end of October.
Gaming News
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E3 2012: Murder is a game of choices in Arkane’s Dishonored

All those claims about how awesome Dishonored is going to be? As far as I can tell, they're totally legit. Pay attention to this one.
Gaming News
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E3 2012: Need For Speed: Most Wanted almost resurrects Burnout Paradise

Don't call Need for Speed: Most Wanted a remake. If anything, it's a mashup of two disparate, yet classic racing titles.
Gaming News
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Shatner, Wheaton lend Star Trek cred to NASA’s videos

If there was one thing missing from the Mars rover, it's the soothingly awkward cadence of Captain James T. Kirk.
Emerging Tech News
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Omerta: City of Gangsters review

Omerta: City of Gangsters could have really been something special because of its novel premise and potentially deep gameplay, but none of that matters thanks to the game's lack of proper quality assurance.
Gaming Reviews

Guardians of Middle Earth review

WBIE's Guardians of Middle-earth may get the basics of the multiplayer online battle arena genre right, but that isn't enough to distract from the fact that the game is a blatant attempt to cash in on two trends simultaneously.
Gaming Reviews

Kinect Party review

What Double Fine Productions' Kinect Party lacks in traditional gameplay mechanics, it more than makes up for in frantic, all-ages fun.
Gaming Reviews
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Cocorobo: Japan’s emotionally needy answer to the Roomba now plays J-pop

f there was one thing missing from the Roomba, it was emotional interaction. Thankfully, developers at Sharp have amended that issue with the Cocorobo.
Emerging Tech News
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E3 2012: Nike, Microsoft join forces to whip gamers into shape

Microsoft and Nike want to get you in shape, and the two corporate powerhouses have built a "game" to do exactly that.
Gaming News
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E3 2012: Persona 4 Arena lives up to its pedigree, at least for now

Persona 4 Arena looks gorgeous and plays great, but it remains to be seen what the hardcore fighting game community will think of it.
Gaming News
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E3 2012: Derivative Darksiders II lacks polish

Darksiders II is going to need a ton of work if THQ hopes to have the game on store shelves this August.
Gaming News
South Park: The Stick of Truth

Ubisoft acquires THQ Montreal, South Park: The Stick of Truth will survive

Owing to the ongoing collapse of THQ, the upcoming, heavily-anticipated South Park: The Stick of Truth will continue development under French mega-publisher Ubisoft.
Gaming News
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Celebrate Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s new Map Workshop with a 50 percent off sale

To celebrate the arrival of Map Workshop functionality for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve Software has decided to cut the price of the game in half.
Gaming News
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EA offers fans another chance to beta test SimCity

Missed January's SimCity beta? That's too bad, but as of this morning you've been granted a second chance at playing the city-building sim before release.
Gaming News
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First DLC for Aliens: Colonial Marines is just ‘another bughunt’

Newly revealed information on Aliens: Colonial Marines details the game's first DLC pack, its season pass pricing and an unexpected Walmart exclusive.
Gaming News
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Man of Steel creators hope a Kryptonian alien can be both ‘man’ and ‘super’

Superman is an alien from Krypton, yet Man of Steel director Zach Snyder and writer David Goyer believe the film's success hinges on humanizing the character.
Gaming News
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Following the Dragonborn DLC add-on to the PC, Skyrim gets a facelift

Hot on the heels of the PC version of Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC comes an update for the game's HD Texture Pack which greatly improves the game's aesthetics.
Gaming News
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Redbox Instant video coming ‘exclusively’ to the Xbox 360

Redbox Instant is a new video streaming application sound to be found on your Xbox 360, then, a bit later, on all the other important gaming platforms.
Gaming News
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Most Borderlands 2 DLC headed for retail, fourth campaign addition still missing

Most of the existing downloadable content for Borderlands 2 will soon be crammed onto a disc and sold at retail for a mere $30.
Gaming News
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Celebrate 25 years of Final Fantasy with a swath of half-off discounts

The Final Fantasy franchise has reached 25 years of existence and publisher Square Enix is marking the occasion by offering big discounts on its games.
Gaming News
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The road to ‘The Avengers’ 3 may go through Planet Hulk

The Planet Hulk and World War Hulk storylines are some of the most popular published by Marvel Comics in recent years, so it comes as little surprise to hear that the company's film wing might be working on a feature adaptation.
Gaming News
Grand Theft Auto V

Rockstar shoots down ‘conspiracy theories’ surrounding Grand Theft Auto V delay

Grand Theft Auto V will debut in September, despite initially featuring a Spring release window. The culprit? Nothing more sinister than quality assurance, despite the wild ideas posited by fans.
Gaming News
Halo 3

Steam may offer an unexpected new home for the first three Halo games

The first three Halo games seem headed for release on Valve Software's Steam service, ending the franchise tradition of only appearing on Microsoft platforms.
Gaming News
L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire gag reel demonstrates the horrors of motion capture technology

L.A. Noire's characters are intensely detailed and strikingly lifelike, but if you dial back the game's polish a bit for a look at how the characters were created, you'll see that they came very close to being eerie and unsettling.
Gaming News
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PR firm Reverb apologizes for kitten-based guilt trip

A poorly-worded press release landed PR firm Reverb in hot water with gamers, and now the company wants to apologize.
Gaming News
Dawnguard

Dragons and vampires (finally) invade the PlayStation 3 with the arrival of Skyrim DLC

14 months after its debut, the PlayStation 3 version is finally going to see some DLC. Bethesda Softworks has outlined a full DLC release plan for the console, and the first pack arrives on February 12.
Gaming News
SimCity 2013

Maxis buries SimCity’s cheats in ‘gentler’ Sandbox Mode

Want infinite cash? How about an on-call UFO attack? You won't find these things in SimCity's standard gameplay modes, but they're in there, tucked away in the game's "Sandbox Mode."
Gaming News
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Fighting game fans try to roundhouse kick breast cancer by raising $225,744 for research

The fighting game community is more than just virtual kicks and punches. It's also a group of people who are generous, caring and apparently big fans of Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Gaming News
Call of Duty: Black Ops II

That headshot you just pulled off in Call of Duty could earn you $1 million

Activision and Microsoft's Xbox division have joined forces to promote a landmark eSports event: A Call of Duty tournament with a massive $1 million grand prize.
Gaming News
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