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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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Free-to-play game platform Playsimo launched in Mexico

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Grupo Televisa SAB, Latin America’s largest multimedia company, and online game creator UOL BoaCompra have teamed up to launch Playsimo, a free-to-play online game portal and content distribution platform. “With gaming at an all-time high in popularity throughout Mexico, Televisa is investing a considerable …

Legendary ex-Rare devs reunite for a Banjo-Kazooie successor

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

The entertainment industry is no stranger to capitalizing on nostalgia, especially when proven IPs can be remade with an almost guaranteed audience. Video game publishers have also caught on to the to the nostalgia gold mine, and 2015 is shaping up to …

Facebook adds item-selling features to Groups

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has come a long way from the days of being a simple social network for trendy college students, and now the social media giant is adding yet another feature to its growing list of tools for its 1.3 billion users: …

“Under the Ocean” joins the Steam Early Access graveyard

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

For many games, Steam Early Access is a place to build a fan-base while simultaneously funding game development, but when a developer fails to live up to its promises, it is the players who suffer. This happened with the ill-fated Towns, which was abandoned by …

Why Eurogamer dropped review scores for games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Reviews are a matter of opinion, and no one is more opinionated than critics. Many critics rely on numerical scores to tell readers how good a video game is, some using a scale of 1 to 10 and others going all the way up to 100. Nerdist.com …

Is free Internet.org better for India, or for Facebook?

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

It is no secret that India has enormous potential as an emerging market, and as the fastest growing economy in the world, western companies are scrambling to find a foothold in the subcontinent. Earlier this year, Twitter Inc. purchased Indian startup Zipdial to …

Bioware’s 4v1 game “Shadow Realms” has been canceled

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Reports surfaced earlier today that Shadow Realms, which was being developed by Bioware’s Austin location in Texas, had been canceled, and now Bioware has confirmed that the rumors are true. Shadow Realms was announced last year at Gamescom and was intended to be an episodic …

Braid developer gambles everything on “The Witness”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

2008’s Braid was the poster child of a successful indie game, selling hundreds of thousands of copies after being developed for only $200,000. Now, Braid’s creator, Jonathan Blow, is funneling all of the money he made from Braid and then some into his next project, a colorful Myst-style …

Esports manager threatens to evict player’s mother if he quits

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

As if the recurring accusations of cheating and match fixing were not enough, the esports world has been hit by yet another scandal after one team manager threatened to have a player’s mother lose her house. Marcin “Kori” Wolski, an 18-year-old professional League of …

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