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

The Long Dark devs on balancing player feedback with creative vision

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Steam’s Early Access program has helped many indie games get off the ground by allowing developers to sell their in-progress games to fans. Players get to play the game long before it comes out and contribute feedback to its development, and creators get …

EA’s response to being the “worst company” and how it has changed

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Demonstrating the fallibility of online polls and the fact that video games are serious business, Electronic Arts Inc has previously been chosen by a Consumerist poll as the worst company in America. Twice. What did they do to earn this dubious honor? If other …

GOG Summer Sale 2015 opens with deals on Witcher 3 and hundreds more

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While everyone is still waiting around for the Steam Summer Sale, which supposedly starts June 11, GOG.com kicked off its own sale today with big discounts on hundreds of titles. The site has discounts on several bundles of classic games, as well as …

CultureMap will deploy thousands of iBeacons across the US

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Bluetooth beacons are a growing trend in location-based advertising, with major companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc investing in the technology. Beacons are also becoming an increasingly important tool for gathering data related to local trends and foot traffic, as they …

Steam now refunds game purchases within 14 days ‘for any reason’

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

One of the drawbacks of many digital distribution platforms is their almost complete lack of a refund policy. For many services, once a digital good is bought, there is no way to return it unless there is an issue with the distribution …

GameFly picks up cloud company to build Netflix for games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

As the video game industry continues shifting away from physical games and toward digital distribution, the rental industry has all but evaporated. Now, GameFly (still a thing, apparently) is trying to turn the tide for game rentals by building a Netflix-like service …

GameStop wins bidding war for ThinkGeek, Hot Topic’s deal is terminated

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Despite earlier reports that Hot Topic would be purchasing ThinkGeek, Inc.’s parent company, Geeknet, Inc., for $122 million, that deal has now been terminated and the company’s outstanding shares have been purchased in a surprise bidding war by GameStop Corp. for $140 million. The …

Supreme Court overturns conviction of man who sent death threats through Facebook

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a man accused of sending his death threats to his wife and others via Facebook, and the case has raised new questions about when online threats are harmless venting and when they are serious …

How fear of penis towers held back progress on Lego Universe

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Sometimes it seems like it is an unwritten rule in gaming that if you give players the ability to build things, someone will eventually make a penis. Or a forest of penises. Or a giant penis death tower that erupts lava onto the landscape. …

Nintendo’s next console rumored to run on Android

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Even with the current success of Nintendo Co Ltd’s most recent family-friendly title, Splatoon, the Japanese game company still has its eyes on the next console generation, especially after the mediocre sales performance of the Wii U. Aside from the codename “NX” and the chance …

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Latest from Eric David

The Long Dark devs on balancing player feedback with creative vision

EA’s response to being the “worst company” and how it has changed

GOG Summer Sale 2015 opens with deals on Witcher 3 and hundreds more

CultureMap will deploy thousands of iBeacons across the US

Steam now refunds game purchases within 14 days ‘for any reason’

GameFly picks up cloud company to build Netflix for games

GameStop wins bidding war for ThinkGeek, Hot Topic’s deal is terminated

Supreme Court overturns conviction of man who sent death threats through Facebook

How fear of penis towers held back progress on Lego Universe

Nintendo’s next console rumored to run on Android

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