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.

Latest from Eric David

Former Chinese Room studio head Jessica Curry explains departure with candid blog post

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Jessica Curry has stepped down as head of The Chinese Room, the developer behind Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and she explained her departure in a candid blog post about her illness and her negative experience working with a publisher. Curry explained …

Hearthstone was an experiment to make a small-scale Blizzard game, says former CCO Rob Pardo

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While Blizzard Entertainment’s games share many traits in common – such as all being wildly successful money-printing machines – one of their games stands out as being a bit different than the others. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is currently one of the …

BBC Three will livestream the upcoming League of Legends World Championships

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

British television channel BBC Three has announced that it will be livestreaming coverage of the upcoming League of Legends world championships, which are scheduled to run for four days starting on October 15. The programming will be hosted by Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin, whom BBC …

Sony cuts PS4 price in North America ahead of the holiday shopping season

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The holiday season is fast approaching, and that means it is time for the big console makers to start slashing prices in preparation for the frenzied buying spree that keeps the lights on for at least a few more months. Last year the …

Video game voice actors vote overwhelmingly in favor of a strike

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

We may soon see a series of significant delays in the development of dozens of upcoming video games, as the largest union of voice actors in America has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. For the last few weeks, members of SAG-AFTRA, the …

Microsoft’s ‘Project XRay’ for HoloLens is gaming’s past, not its future

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft earned its share of oohs and ahhs when it showcased its Project XRay mixed reality game for HoloLens at its Windows 10 Devices event earlier this week, but aside from the novelty of robot spiders crawling out of your living room …

Crowdfunded game ‘Midora’ in trouble despite $73,000 from Kickstarter

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It can be easy to forget that a big pile of money can’t solve all of your problems. Sometimes you need two big piles of money. At least that is what Epic Minds discovered with its crowdfunded “90’s inspired action-adventure” game Midora, which …

Riot Games bans game reseller G2A from sponsoring League of Legends players

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

As eSports continues to grow in popularity, more and more money is becoming involved in the industry, and like traditional sports, professional players often receive significant sponsorships from companies in return for using their products or displaying their logos during tournaments. But …

Blizzard games still dominate Twitch’s top 20 most-watched streams

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Riot Games’ League of Legends and Valve Corps’ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may have their place staked out as the number one and number two games on Twitch, respectively, but Blizzard Entertainment still remains the dominant game studio on the livestreaming site’s top 20 most-watched games. …

Witcher dev promises Cyberpunk 2077 will be “far bigger than anything” it’s done before

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It has been over three years since Warsaw-based game studio CD Projekt RED announced that it was working on Cyberpunk 2077, a sci-fi RPG based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games, and so far the developer has released very few details about the project. Of …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Former Chinese Room studio head Jessica Curry explains departure with candid blog post

Hearthstone was an experiment to make a small-scale Blizzard game, says former CCO Rob Pardo

BBC Three will livestream the upcoming League of Legends World Championships

Sony cuts PS4 price in North America ahead of the holiday shopping season

Video game voice actors vote overwhelmingly in favor of a strike

Microsoft’s ‘Project XRay’ for HoloLens is gaming’s past, not its future

Crowdfunded game ‘Midora’ in trouble despite $73,000 from Kickstarter

Riot Games bans game reseller G2A from sponsoring League of Legends players

Blizzard games still dominate Twitch’s top 20 most-watched streams

Witcher dev promises Cyberpunk 2077 will be “far bigger than anything” it’s done before

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