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

Blizzard talks flying, artifacts, and Demon Hunters in ‘World of Warcraft: Legion’ Q&A | #Gamescom15

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Blizzard Entertainment Inc announced the latest expansion for World of Warcraft last week at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, and today the developer answered a few fan questions during a livestream that gave a little more detail about the new features coming to the …

Lionsgate and Starbreeze team up to bring ‘John Wick’ to virtual reality

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Despite making double its expected opening box office gross, the 2014 Keanu Reeves action flick John Wick still seems like a strange film to be getting a game adaptation that is not a direct tie-in, and it would seem even stranger for it to …

The Sharing Economy market is exploding “at the speed of trust”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Out of the dozens of industries spawned from the internet revolution that began in the early 1990s, few are more closely tied with modern connected culture than the sharing economy model (also called collaborative economy). While the term “sharing economy” is used …

World of Warcraft: Legion adds Demon Hunter hero class, artifact weapons, and more | #Gamescom15

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

During a livestream from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Blizzard Entertainment Inc announced the next World of Warcraft expansion: Legion. The expansion will take players to the Broken Isles where they will fight off a full scale invasion by the Burning Legion, one of the …

Indie game dev explains how Steam Reviews harshly punish early mistakes

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Since introducing user reviews in late 2013, the Steam store has sometimes been overrun by reactionary mobs who leave negative reviews for all kinds of reasons, and one indie game developer says that Steam’s review system can easily kill a game over a small mistake, …

Facebook launches livestreaming for its celebrity-only Mentions app

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook is apparently joining the livestreaming race, but it will not be a feature for the social media giant’s roughly 1.4 billion strong user base. Instead, the livestreaming platform will focus entirely on celebrity streamers, at least for the time being. The new livestreaming tool, which …

Mario 64 speedrunner offers $1k bounty to duplicate a glitch

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Game developers spend years creating expansive worlds with compelling gameplay and epic stories, putting in hundreds of thousands of manhours to ensure that gamers get a fun, meaningful experience. Speedrunners are the people who skip all of that crap and and jump …

Warner Bros’ game revenue proves awful PC ports don’t hurt profits

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Despite releasing one of the worst PC versions of a game in recent memory, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment saw game revenues spike by 135 percent for Q2 thanks primarily to Mortal Kombat X and Batman: Arkham Knight, proving that maybe Warner Bros is right …

World of Warcraft subscriptions plummet to the lowest in 10 years

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

For a very short period, it seemed like Blizzard Entertainment Inc’s World of Warcraft was on the rebound after its latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, saw a huge spike in subscribers last November. Subscription numbers rose to over 10 million accounts after the release …

Cities: Skylines dev on why rewards beat punishments | #GDCEurope

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Privately owned Finnish game studio Colossal Order Ltd. made a big splash earlier this year with the release of Cities: Skylines, a city builder game that sold 250,000 copies in its first 24 hours and one million in its first month. At this week’s …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Blizzard talks flying, artifacts, and Demon Hunters in ‘World of Warcraft: Legion’ Q&A | #Gamescom15

Lionsgate and Starbreeze team up to bring ‘John Wick’ to virtual reality

World of Warcraft: Legion adds Demon Hunter hero class, artifact weapons, and more | #Gamescom15

Indie game dev explains how Steam Reviews harshly punish early mistakes

Facebook launches livestreaming for its celebrity-only Mentions app

Mario 64 speedrunner offers $1k bounty to duplicate a glitch

Warner Bros’ game revenue proves awful PC ports don’t hurt profits

World of Warcraft subscriptions plummet to the lowest in 10 years

Cities: Skylines dev on why rewards beat punishments | #GDCEurope

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