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

Indie hit ‘Stardew Valley’ has sold over 1 million copies

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Since launching at the end of February, role-playing game and farming sim Stardew Valley quickly became one of the first indie hits of the year, and now publisher Chucklefish Games has confirmed that the game has now sold over 1 million copies. “It’s …

“Brutally hard” Dark Souls board game coming to Kickstarter

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Tabletop game company Steamforged Games Ltd recently announced that it will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for a board game adaptation of Dark Souls, the notoriously difficult video game series developer by Japanese game studio From Software, and now Steamforged has revealed more details about …

Facebook unveils open-source 360-degree camera for VR video | #F82016

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

At this week’s F8 conference, social media giant Facebook introduced an open-source video camera called Facebook Surround 360, which is aimed at capturing footage in 360 degrees for use in virtual reality content creation. “When we started this project, all the existing 3D-360 …

Delivery of some Oculus Rift pre-orders delayed by months

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Oculus Rift officially launched more than two weeks ago, but it looks like some fans who pre-ordered the high end virtual reality headset will have to wait a bit longer for their device. Oculus VR LLC already admitted earlier this month that …

John Carmack: Today’s opportunities for game devs more exciting “than anything that’s come before”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

This week, legendary game maker John Carmack accepted a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his pioneering work in game development since the early 1990s. Through his work on Wolfenstein 3d and Doom, Carmack helped create the first-person shooter …

Rust now arbitrarily picks your character’s gender, just like real life but with more murder

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Indie developer Facepunch Studios Ltd had already angered some players in its survival game Rust when it decided to randomly assign race for every character, and now those same developers have made another controversial decision by randomly assigning gender as well. “We understand this …

Team behind old school World of Warcraft server begs Blizzard to reconsider shutdown

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

This week, the team behind Nostalrius, one of the most popular private World of Warcraft servers, was forced to shut it down after Blizzard Entertainment’s lawyers sent a letter threatening legal action. Now, the Nostralius team has written an open letter addressed to …

Overwatch’s new Competitive Play makes you hate your team even more

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

This week, Blizzard Entertainment introduced a new Competitive Play mode to the closed beta of its upcoming team shooter, Overwatch, finally allowing the game to enjoy some of the same player toxicity as games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Competitive Play takes place …

BMW turns to HTC Vive and Unreal Engine to design cars in VR

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It seems obvious that virtual reality would have plenty of applications outside of gaming, but now that seems to apply to game engines as well, as German automobile manufacturer BMW AG has started designing cars using Unreal Engine 4 and the HTC …

Rock Band 4 for PC crowdfunding campaign fails miserably

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It seems that Harmonix Music Systems Inc set the bar a bit too high when it asked for $1.5 million in crowdfunding to produce a PC version of Rock Band 4, as the game’s Fig campaign has ended after only managing to reach roughly half of …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Indie hit ‘Stardew Valley’ has sold over 1 million copies

“Brutally hard” Dark Souls board game coming to Kickstarter

Facebook unveils open-source 360-degree camera for VR video | #F82016

Delivery of some Oculus Rift pre-orders delayed by months

John Carmack: Today’s opportunities for game devs more exciting “than anything that’s come before”

Rust now arbitrarily picks your character’s gender, just like real life but with more murder

Team behind old school World of Warcraft server begs Blizzard to reconsider shutdown

Overwatch’s new Competitive Play makes you hate your team even more

BMW turns to HTC Vive and Unreal Engine to design cars in VR

Rock Band 4 for PC crowdfunding campaign fails miserably

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