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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.

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Oculus Rift consumer version will finally arrive in early 2016

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  It has been a long road from Oculus VR’s initial Kickstarter campaign in 2012 to its $2 billion acquisition by Facebook, Inc. and eventual partnership with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Now, after nearly three years, the company has finally announced that the consumer …

Hearthstone’s mobile version pushes it past 30 million users

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  It is hard to believe that a card battling game has become one of the most successful video games on the market today, but somehow Blizzard Entertainment’s Heathstone: Heroes of Warcraft has managed to reach over 30 million players and reportedly earns …

Boss Fight Entertainment nabs former Amazon Game Studios director

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  Dallas-based mobile game developer Boss Fight Entertainment has announced that former Amazon Game Studios director Dave Luehmann will be joining the company as VP of Production. Based out of a 105-year-old cotton mill in McKinney, Texas, Boss Fight is a descendent of sorts …

DRM-free Steam alternative GOG Galaxy enters open beta

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

PC gaming is already a crowded field when it comes to digital distribution platforms, with several developers all pushing their own clients. Electronic Arts, Inc. has Origin, Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. has UPlay and, of course, Valve Corp. has Steam. While all of these platforms have …

Nintendo apologizes to fans for Amiibo scarcity

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  It is no secret that gamers are crazy about amiibo, Nintendo Co Ltd’s small NFC-enabled toys that interact with certain games on Wii U or 3DS. GameStop learned that lesson first hand when overeager consumers crashed the game seller’s website in a …

Mobile game revenues may outpace consoles by 2018

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  The video game industry has been dominated by the home game console since the early 1990s, and it has only been in the last few years that mobile games for tablets and smartphones have started challenge consoles’ place in the revenue hierarchy. …

Pinterest unlocks its data with new developer platform

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

  Social bookmarking site Pinterest has been slowly doling out APIs to get developers onto its platform, such as its Marketing Developer Partners API that was launched last week to give businesses more control over their advertising campaigns on the site. Now, Pinterest …

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