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

Sensai launches new platform that lets companies leverage their unstructured data

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Nearly every established company has a pile of unstructured data that is just waiting to be used, but taking the eclectic mountains of old reports, call transcripts, emails and other files and turning them into something usable often requires a huge investment not only in …

Some Twitch streamers are using illicit botnets to inflate viewer counts

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Getting high viewer counts on Twitch.tv livestreams is not easy. Some already well known brands or personalities, such as the recently launched Geek & Sundry channel, have the advantage of a built in audience that starts watching right from the beginning, but for …

MOBAs may soon outsell MMOs in F2P market, says analyst

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The free-to-play (F2P) market is a growing genre of games that use microtransactions for revenue rather than charging a one time, fixed game price or a recurring subscription fee. For some time, MMOs have dominated this market thanks to their huge audience …

Facebook chases Chinese ad revenue despite being blocked in the country

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While its social network might still be banned in China, Facebook is chasing revenue within the country that houses a population roughly equivalent in size to its own user base. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has stepped up efforts to entice …

British principals threaten parents with police for letting kids play violent games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Video games have taken the blame for any number of degenerate behavior in youths ever since the industry was created, and violent game series like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty have given opponents even more ammo to paint games as a scapegoat …

Epic Games reveals three more Unreal dev grant winners

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year, Epic Games announced that it would be giving out grants to worthy developers using Unreal Engine 4 for their games, and today the North Carolina-based studio has announced three new winners, bringing the number of to nine with grants …

Facebook helping iOS devs by open-sourcing its React Native framework

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Developers looking to make the leap from web to mobile apps often have a tough road ahead of them, as the two formats can have very different requirements and code structures. Facebook is looking to make this transition a little bit easier by open-sourcing …

The solution to Virtual Reality nausea is…Virtual Reality noses?

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

One of the greatest challenges facing developers of Virtual Reality programs is the tendency for people using their devices to occasionally become violently ill. At a session during Game Developers Conference 2015 in San Francisco, video game legend and Oculus VR Inc CTO …

GameStop posts weak Q4, continues shifting away from storefront game sales

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

GameStop Corps posted some less than stellar results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, overshadowing the Dallas-based game seller’s otherwise strong showing in 2014. The store reported $3.48 billion for its 2014 Q4 earnings, missing its earlier projection of $3.6 billion by over …

Gamified brain-trainer Memorado raises $3.3 million in Series A funding

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

“Gym for the brain” app Memorado made headlines back in September when it announced that it had quietly raised $1.3 million in its seed round earlier that year, and that its service had already been adopted by a user base of over 1 …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Sensai launches new platform that lets companies leverage their unstructured data

Some Twitch streamers are using illicit botnets to inflate viewer counts

MOBAs may soon outsell MMOs in F2P market, says analyst

Facebook chases Chinese ad revenue despite being blocked in the country

British principals threaten parents with police for letting kids play violent games

Epic Games reveals three more Unreal dev grant winners

Facebook helping iOS devs by open-sourcing its React Native framework

The solution to Virtual Reality nausea is…Virtual Reality noses?

GameStop posts weak Q4, continues shifting away from storefront game sales

Gamified brain-trainer Memorado raises $3.3 million in Series A funding

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