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

Syfy is making a scripted virtual reality TV series for Oculus Rift

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Plenty of video game studios have been hopping on the virtual reality bandwagon over the last few years, and now it looks like television networks are also eyeing VR as potentially the next big thing. Syfy has revealed that it is working on …

Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine has “direct plumbing to AWS”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Amazon made the surprise announcement earlier this week that it would be releasing its own free game engine called Lumberyard, and in a recent interview with GamesBeat, Lumberyard head Eric Schenk explained how and why Amazon created the engine, as well as how …

Was the world not ready for Rock Band 4 and Guitar Hero Live?

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

For a short time, it was almost impossible to go to a party without seeing a group of friends playing either Rock Band or Guitar Hero, but the two game oversaturated the market with an endless stream of sequels that offered little more than a …

Quantum Break PC release controversy proves gamers can hate just about anything

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Gamers are a notoriously fickle bunch, and few people in the industry know that fact better than the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, Phil Spencer, but even Spencer was left scratching his head when numerous Xbox owners reacted with anger to the announcement that …

Twitch’s 2015 retrospective shows esports is still a driving force behind the platform

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Last year was a time of major growth for Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming service for gamers, and today the site released a retrospective looking back at all of its major accomplishments for 2015, along with a few interesting stats about how viewers …

Even Ubisoft is finally sick of yearly Assassin’s Creed releases

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Ubisoft Entertainment SA has been churning out new Assassin’s Creed games every year since 2009 (2007 if you count a couple of games for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable), but the studio has finally decided to give the franchise a rest this year for …

Gamers care less and less about owning noobs as they get older, study finds

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

People play games for a variety of different reasons, whether its to challenge their mental prowess or to totally own some noobs, and according to game analytics firm Quantic Foundry LLC, those reasons can change significantly as gamers age. “According to the …

ESA exec refutes SuperData CEO’s claim that the organization is “irrelevant”

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this month, SuperData Research Inc CEO Joost van Dreunen wrote an opinion piece criticizing the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), saying that the organization is becoming increasingly irrelevant and unhelpful to the video game industry as a whole. This week, Rich Taylor, the ESA’s Senior VP of …

Mad Catz lays off a third of its staff after lackluster Rock Band 4 sales

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Things already looked bleak for game peripheral maker Mad Catz Interactive Inc after its CEO and two other top staff resigned the day before the company’s financials were released, but now the future of Mad Catz seems even more uncertain, as the company …

Symantec warns of malware hidden in Hearthstone cheat programs

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

If you are the type of degenerate who feels the need to cheat at a free online card game like Hearthstone, then you probably deserve whatever viruses or malware you get out of it, but technology security company Symantec Corp has decided to issue …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Syfy is making a scripted virtual reality TV series for Oculus Rift

Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine has “direct plumbing to AWS”

Was the world not ready for Rock Band 4 and Guitar Hero Live?

Quantum Break PC release controversy proves gamers can hate just about anything

Twitch’s 2015 retrospective shows esports is still a driving force behind the platform

Even Ubisoft is finally sick of yearly Assassin’s Creed releases

Gamers care less and less about owning noobs as they get older, study finds

ESA exec refutes SuperData CEO’s claim that the organization is “irrelevant”

Mad Catz lays off a third of its staff after lackluster Rock Band 4 sales

Symantec warns of malware hidden in Hearthstone cheat programs

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