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Eric David

Eric David is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE, covering the latest trends in social media and gaming. He is an avid gamer and enjoys writing about innovations in the video game industry and gaming culture in general. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving major honors for his thesis "A Culture of Heresy: Explaining the Resiliency of Catharism and the Church's Response," which is every bit as exciting as it sounds. Eric lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, dog and gaming PC.

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Eyefluence raises $14M to let you control virtual reality with your eyes

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

California-based technology startup Eyefluence Inc is working on technology that will allow virtual reality and augmented reality programs to be controlled with your eyes, and the company has just emerged from stealth with $14 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Motorola …

Blizzard files lawsuit against ‘HonorBuddy’ bot maker

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Blizzard Entertainment Inc, the studio behind monster franchises like Warcraft and StarCraft, has filed a lawsuit against the creators of HonorBuddy and several other paid bot programs that are designed to give players an unfair advantage in Blizzard’s games. Most, if not all, of Blizzard’s …

The new Tomb Raider lets you screw with players on Twitch

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The diabolical social experiment that was Twitch Plays Pokemon proved that a million monkeys on typewriters can indeed play a videogame, and now the recently released Rise of the Tomb Raider has effectively given those monkeys the nuclear launch codes by letting viewers mess …

How Fallout 4’s perk system improves on Fallout 3

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Bethesda Game Studios’ long awaited Fallout 4 has finally arrived, and the game has already broken the record for the most concurrent players on Steam (not including Valve Corp games), a record that had once been once held by the studio’s previous game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, …

How Fallout 4 gets its companion app right

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Companion apps have something of a mixed reputation in the video game world. Some are buggy messes that rarely, if ever, receive updates (the WoW Armory app for World of Warcraft). Others are forced upon users by being arbitrarily required to unlock certain …

Twitch announces that Bob Ross is here to stay

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

When livestreaming site Twitch announced that it would be playing a week-long marathon of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross in honor of Ross’ birthday and the new Twitch Creative category, the site had no idea what it was getting itself into. …

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