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

Microsoft HoloLens dev kit arriving in Q1 2016 for $3000| #Windows10devices

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

For a device that is not even in the hands of developers yet, Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset has certainly captured the imagination of the tech savvy public. It will likely be quite some time before the device is actually available for …

Star Citizen dev threatens The Escapist with lawsuit over “slanderous” article

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Last week, gaming news and community website The Escapist published an exposè on Cloud Imperium Games, the game studio behind the $90 million crowdfunded space sim game Star Citizen. Drawing on anonymous sources claiming to have worked at Cloud Imperium, the article accused the studio …

Valve begins selling Steam hardware through retail stores like GameStop

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

In a bizarre role reversal, Valve Corp has announced that it will start selling Steam products through physical retail locations like GameStop and EB Games. Select stores will soon have “Steam Sections” that will sell products like Steam Machines, Steam Controllers, and Steam Link. Since current Steam …

Facebook announces plans to beam internet access to Sub-Saharan Africa via satellite

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Social media giant Facebook, Inc. announced Monday that it would be partnering with French satellite company Eutelsat Communications SA to bring free basic internet access to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The new partnership is part of Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, whose goal is to …

PAX Pokémon party planner pays $4k in fines with the help of crowdfunding

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

A few months ago, The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Larkin Jones, the planner of the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokémon PAX Kickoff Party” at PAX Prime, claiming that the event “created derivative works of, distributed copies to the public, and/or displayed publicly …

Microsoft buys gaming middleware maker Havok from Intel

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is now the new owner of Dublin-based Havok Inc, a producer of middleware software for game developers and special effects studios that was previously owned by Intel Corp. Microsoft and Havok announced the acquisition in a joint statement today, which promised …

Activision scrambles to fix disastrous ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5’

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It seems that Activision Publishing Inc wanted to prove that Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment isn’t the only triple-A publisher capable of releasing a completely broken game in a major franchise. This time, however, we get to see the meltdown happen on consoles instead. This …

Star Citizen devs subjected to “toxic” work environment, report claims

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Update: According to information posted on the r/StarCitizen subreddit, the sources used by The Escapist may have been lifted from user reviews on Glassdoor.com, which can be submitted by anyone. We will update our coverage as more information becomes available. Update 2: The Escapist …

Batman: Arkham Knight will finally return to PC four months late

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While console gamers have had the time to play through Batman: Arkham Knight a few dozen times by now, PC gamers have still been waiting for Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment Inc to fix the game’s incredibly broken PC port since, which was pulled …

Call of Duty pulls hilariously bad PR stunt with fake terrorist news

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

They say that no publicity is bad publicity, and it appears that the creators of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 decided to put that theory to the test by posting a series of tweets reporting fake terrorist activity in Singapore. Apparently, quite a …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Microsoft HoloLens dev kit arriving in Q1 2016 for $3000| #Windows10devices

Valve begins selling Steam hardware through retail stores like GameStop

PAX Pokémon party planner pays $4k in fines with the help of crowdfunding

Microsoft buys gaming middleware maker Havok from Intel

Activision scrambles to fix disastrous ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5’

Batman: Arkham Knight will finally return to PC four months late

Call of Duty pulls hilariously bad PR stunt with fake terrorist news

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