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

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey admits he “handled the messaging poorly” regarding Rift price

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset went live yesterday, and after months or even years of speculation, we finally learned that the actual price for the device would be $599. The price came as a surprise for many consumers who …

Psychonauts 2 hits its $3.3M funding goal on Fig with less than a week remaining

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

The long awaited sequel to the cult classic platformer Psychonauts has reached its $3.3 million crowdfunding funding goal on Fig with only five days remaining in its campaign. The campaign was first announced by developer Double Fine Productions last month at The Game …

Creators of brain-game ‘Lumosity’ hit with $2M fine for over-promising health benefits

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Lumos Labs Inc has been forced to accept a $2 million settlement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it made some lofty (and unsupported) claims about the mental health benefits from playing its “brain training” game Lumosity. Specifically, The FTC accused Lumos Labs of …

Oculus Rift pre-orders are live at a $599 price point

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

No one ever expected high-end virtual reality to come cheap, and Oculus VR has certainly proven that fact today by finally revealing that the price point for Oculus Rift will be $599. While that does seem a bit pricey for the average non-hardcore …

Valve reaffirms lifetime bans for ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ match fixers

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It has been nearly a year since Valve Corp made the decision to permanently ban players who had been involved with rigging professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournaments, and this week Valve reaffirmed that stance, saying that it has no intention of giving …

SuperData expects VR industry to hit $5.1B in 2016, but it won’t be Rift or Vive leading the charge

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

While the claim that 2016 will be the year of virtual reality is still debatable, there is no denying that the technology is generating a lot of interest from both consumers and industry professionals, and now analytics firm SuperData Research Inc has validated their excitement. …

Guillermo Del Toro to present Hall of Fame award to Hideo Kojima at DICE 2016

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

One of the most heartbreaking consequences of the bizarre fallout between Konami Corp and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was the abrupt cancellation of the Silent Hills game he had been working on with famed horror director Guillermo Del Toro. But while Kojima’s departure …

HTC Vive adds a front-facing camera so you never have to take it off

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

In December, HTC Corp. and Valve Corp. made a surprise announcement that they would be delaying the release of the HTC Vive VR headset by several months due to “a very, very big technological breakthrough,” and now it looks like we might …

Veteran RPG dev Chris Avellone on the resurgence of old school PC games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

For all of the gamers who complain about the lack of originality in modern video games, there are just as many who clamor for sequels, remakes, and reboots for series they enjoyed many years ago. This has become especially apparent over the …

AMD unveils new ‘Polaris’ graphics architecture for its next-gen GPUs

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Systems Inc (AMD) is unveiling the new Polaris GCN architecture, which it promises will be able to match the performance capabilities of similar cards but with a huge reduction …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey admits he “handled the messaging poorly” regarding Rift price

Psychonauts 2 hits its $3.3M funding goal on Fig with less than a week remaining

Creators of brain-game ‘Lumosity’ hit with $2M fine for over-promising health benefits

Oculus Rift pre-orders are live at a $599 price point

Valve reaffirms lifetime bans for ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ match fixers

SuperData expects VR industry to hit $5.1B in 2016, but it won’t be Rift or Vive leading the charge

Guillermo Del Toro to present Hall of Fame award to Hideo Kojima at DICE 2016

HTC Vive adds a front-facing camera so you never have to take it off

Veteran RPG dev Chris Avellone on the resurgence of old school PC games

AMD unveils new ‘Polaris’ graphics architecture for its next-gen GPUs

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