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

Controversial ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ pre-order campaign has been canceled

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

At the beginning of September, Eidos Montreal announced a pre-order campaign for its upcoming game, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but the campaign was almost instantly unpopular with fans. Now exactly one month later, Eidos and its parent company, Square Enix Holdings Co Ltd, have announced …

GameStop CEO thinks “disc-based games will be around forever”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Even as digital game sales are slowly gaining on physical discs, GameStop Corp CEO Paul Raines believes that discs will never really go away, and GameStop will continue to sell them. “Disc-based games will be around forever,” Raines said in a recent interview with Fortune. …

Esports could be worth billions by 2020 by tackling five key issues, says Newzoo

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Esports has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years, with millions of fans watching and attending professional game tournaments around the world. Now market research firm Newzoo BV says the industry could reach over $1 billion in value by 2020, …

“Unity stands with those that want to put themselves in harm’s way of creation,” says John Riccitiello

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Unity Technologies Inc’s game engine has become one of the standard game creation tools in the video game industry, and over the last few years, the company has been focusing heavily on building and supporting a community of developers that range from …

Divinity: Original Sin 2 meets its final stretch goals with $2M raised on Kickstarter

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Belgian game developer Larian Studios has just concluded an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for a sequel to Divinity: Original Sin, raising over $2 million from more than 40,000 backers. The first game raised less than $1 million in its campaign, which Divinity: Original Sin …

Microsoft is dropping microtransactions and DLC from Project Spark

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has announced that it will be abandoning the microtransaction model for Project Spark, a user-friendly game creation engine for PC and Xbox. Going forward, Project Spark will be totally free to use, and all paid downloadable content (DLC) will be automatically unlocked for …

‘Divinity: Original Sin 2’ devs to host 24-hour Twitch stream as Kickstarter campaign ends

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The Divinity: Original Sin 2 Kickstarter campaign has less than two days to go, and with just over $200,000 remaining to reach its final stretch goal, developer Larian Studios has announced that it will be hosting a 24-hour Twitch stream tomorrow to push the …

Sony may have finally given up on making game handhelds like PS Vita

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While Nintendo Co Ltd may have been toppled from its long-held perch as the king of console gaming, the Japanese game maker still dominates the handheld market thanks to the Nintendo 3DS, which as of June had sold over 233 million units. …

Google doubles the size limit for Android APKs on the Play Store to 100MB

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Mobile games have a (somewhat deserved) reputation for being low quality and generally unable to compete with the complexity of console or PC games, but Google has just made it a little easier for mobile Android developers to offer more powerful gaming experiences on the …

VR motion sickness is “no longer the hardware’s fault,” says Valve dev

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

One of the greatest challenges facing the half-dozen or so virtual reality (VR) headsets currently in development is the tendency for VR to sometimes cause extreme motion sickness in users. There are numerous factors behind what causes VR sickness, but Valve Corp.’s Chet …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Controversial ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ pre-order campaign has been canceled

GameStop CEO thinks “disc-based games will be around forever”

Esports could be worth billions by 2020 by tackling five key issues, says Newzoo

“Unity stands with those that want to put themselves in harm’s way of creation,” says John Riccitiello

Divinity: Original Sin 2 meets its final stretch goals with $2M raised on Kickstarter

Microsoft is dropping microtransactions and DLC from Project Spark

‘Divinity: Original Sin 2’ devs to host 24-hour Twitch stream as Kickstarter campaign ends

Sony may have finally given up on making game handhelds like PS Vita

Google doubles the size limit for Android APKs on the Play Store to 100MB

VR motion sickness is “no longer the hardware’s fault,” says Valve dev

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