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

Twitter invests big in bluetooth beacon startup Swirl Networks

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Twitter, Inc. has been scrambling to find ways to monetize its microblog service, and now it may have found an answer thanks to a recent investment in beacon technology startup Swirl Networks, Inc. Swirl announced that it has completed an $18 million …

Steam Workshop now lets content creators sell mods, but will anyone buy?

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Valve Corporation has continued to provide Steam Workshop content creators with new avenues of making money, such as when it announced inventory support for games in February. By the end of last year, content creators had earned over $57 million from transactions on …

John Cleese on self assessment and why he loves geeks | #Know15

FEATURED CUBE STORIES By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Actor and comedy legend John Cleese joined theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at Knowledge 15 in Las Vegas to talk about geeks, conventions, and everything wrong with the world. “I like geeks because they all like Monty Python,” Cleese joked. …

World of Warcraft creative lead Rob Pardo joins Unity as an advisor

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Unity Technologies has announced that World of Warcraft Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo will be joining the game engine company as a creative advisor. Pardo is a veteran of the video game industry, and he has worked on several highly successful and …

Rock Band 4 will be co-published by peripheral maker Mad Catz

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It has been a long time since a new Rock Band title was released—about three years to be exact, and that is only if you count the Frequency-like rhythm game Rock Band Blitz. It has been closer to five years since Rock Band 3. Earlier …

Sign-ups for free HTC Vive VR dev kits are now available

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The gaming community was both surprised and intrigued when Valve Corp and HTC Corp announced their virtual reality partnership earlier this year during HTC’s Mobile World Congress presentation. The HTC Vive VR headset is set to challenge Oculus VR in the small …

YouTube cuts support to older iOS devices and smart TVs

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Google has decided that it is no longer worth supporting YouTube on older devices, so the company has announced that it will be pulling the plug on several outdated systems, including older Apple TVs, iOS devices, and smart TVs. “As we upgrade …

White House wants to use games to “address societal challenges” says former advisor

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The U.S. government has had a tense relationship with video games since at least the debate about violence in gaming in the early 1990s, but Mark DeLoura, former Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House, says that relationship has changed …

A super smart Twitter bot may be playing the stock market

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Machines have been disrupting the job market for around 200 years, but until recently, those machines still needed a human operating the mill or driving the combine. But now the ongoing advancements in automation have led some analysts to say that we are living in …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Twitter invests big in bluetooth beacon startup Swirl Networks

Steam Workshop now lets content creators sell mods, but will anyone buy?

John Cleese on self assessment and why he loves geeks | #Know15

World of Warcraft creative lead Rob Pardo joins Unity as an advisor

Rock Band 4 will be co-published by peripheral maker Mad Catz

Sign-ups for free HTC Vive VR dev kits are now available

YouTube cuts support to older iOS devices and smart TVs

White House wants to use games to “address societal challenges” says former advisor

A super smart Twitter bot may be playing the stock market

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