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

Facebook’s LiveRail platform will expand advertisers’ access to user data

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Very few companies can claim to match anything close to the level of data Facebook has on its 1.4 billion users. In fact, Facebook’s total user base accounts for nearly half of the entire world’s Internet using population, and with advertisers scrambling for any possible advantage …

Northern Ireland gives out free copies of Minecraft to all secondary schools

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Even among its early adopters, few could have imagined the powerhouse phenomenon Minecraft would become, eventually leading to its developer, Mojang AB, being bought for $2 billion by Microsoft Corp. While plenty of players can zone out for hours on the game as they …

Build games in a remote cabin with a Swedish accelerator and its top game dev mentors

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While Japanese and American game developers such as Nintendo and Electronic Arts have largely dominated the video game industry for most of its short history, there are some interesting things happening in Europe now. There are highly profitable studios like Clash of Heroes creator Supercell, …

YouTube reportedly going after Twitch by rebranding its live service

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Last year, Google Inc. tried and failed to purchase the popular video game livestreaming service Twitch.tv, and the site ultimately went to Amazon Inc. for a $970 million deal. Now, Google is fighting back by reportedly spinning its own livestreaming service on YouTube to …

Facebook’s “On This Day” ads Timehop-like features to the site

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

If you can’t beat them, clone them. That seems to be Facebook’s motto anyway, as the social media giant bakes in more features that originally became popular through third-party apps. The latest addition to Facebook is “On This Day,” a time capsule …

Clash of Clans dev Supercell tripled its earnings in 2014 thanks to F2P model

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It is no surprise to learn that the company behind the popular free-to-play (F2P) mobile game Clash of Clans is doing ok—they were able to afford a several-million dollar ad starring Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson during this year’s Super Bowl after all. But Supercell, …

Multi-gaming and the argument for “boring” games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Who would want to play a boring game? With the video game industry becoming more and more competitive, you might think that any gameplay that is even remotely boring would be stripped out so that only the fun parts remain, but Marcus Carter, a …

Facebook may soon host news content for New York Times and others

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook has long been positioning itself as a personalized newspaper for its users — it is even right there in the name “News Feed.” Now, the social networking giant might be taking that claim a bit more literally by getting into the …

Instagram introduces a collage-building app called Layout

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

If you were tired of people complaining about the flood of Instagram pictures using one of the app’s many different filters, get ready for a new trend to take over your Facebook and Twitter feeds. Today the Facebook Inc-owned Instagram announced a new …

Twitch warns users of possible hack, all passwords and stream keys reset

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Popular livestreaming service Twitch.tv has confirmed that a number of user accounts may have been compromised, forcing the site to reset thousands of passwords and automatically expiring stream keys on the network. Twitch is currently requiring returning users to reset their password when logging …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Facebook’s LiveRail platform will expand advertisers’ access to user data

Northern Ireland gives out free copies of Minecraft to all secondary schools

Build games in a remote cabin with a Swedish accelerator and its top game dev mentors

YouTube reportedly going after Twitch by rebranding its live service

Clash of Clans dev Supercell tripled its earnings in 2014 thanks to F2P model

Multi-gaming and the argument for “boring” games

Facebook may soon host news content for New York Times and others

Instagram introduces a collage-building app called Layout

Twitch warns users of possible hack, all passwords and stream keys reset

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