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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

Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter hits $2.4M, DLC will be free for backers

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Yooka-Laylee, the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, has continued to plow through every funding goal it sets, and the “buddy duo platformer” has recently broken $2.4 million in contributions with over a month still left in the campaign. As a result, all backers will …

How to get the most out of a Steam sale

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Valve Corp.’s Steam store is well known for some amazing sales on video games, especially the summer and winter sales, which have become the equivalent of Black Friday for gamers. With prices slashed by as much as 75 percent or higher and many games …

BitTorrent launches an encrypted P2P chat app called Bleep

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Filesharing pioneer BitTorrent, Inc. has entered the private communication space with a new secure messenger called Bleep. The service has been in testing for nearly a year, and it is now publicly available on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. “We’ve been listening,” Farid Fadaie, …

Lily is a flying robot camera that follows you around

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

If wearing a helmet-mounted GoPro or carrying around a camera on a stick seems like too much of a hassle, then Lily may be the robot for you. Lily is a self-flying camera that is capable of following and recording you wherever …

Konami’s profits more than double despite Kojima controversy

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has lost a lot of goodwill from fans over their mishandling of the departure of Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, as well as the cancellation of Kojima’s much-anticipated partnership with horror film legend Guillermo del Toro …

Etsy stock drops 10% due to worries about counterfeit goods

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Popular community-driven craft marketplace Etsy took a stock hit today after Wall Street analysts estimated that 5 percent of all of the goods sold through the storefront could violate other companies’ copyrights and trademarks. “Our research indicates as many as 2 million items on …

Nintendo’s future ‘NX’ console could be region-free

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Nintendo Co Ltd has not said much about the in-development console that will replace the Wii U, other than revealing its codename, “NX.” While details on NX have been scarce so far, company president Satoru Iwata has suggested that the console may do …

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