Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

The Long Dark devs on balancing player feedback with creative vision

By Eric David Jun 3, 2015

Steam’s Early Access program has helped many indie games get off the ground by allowing developers to sell their in-progress games to fans. Players get to play the game long before it comes out and…

EA’s response to being the “worst company” and how it has changed

By Eric David Jun 3, 2015

Demonstrating the fallibility of online polls and the fact that video games are serious business, Electronic Arts Inc has previously been chosen by a Consumerist poll as the worst company in America. Twice. What did they…

GOG Summer Sale 2015 opens with deals on Witcher 3 and hundreds more

By Eric David Jun 3, 2015

While everyone is still waiting around for the Steam Summer Sale, which supposedly starts June 11, GOG.com kicked off its own sale today with big discounts on hundreds of titles. The site has discounts on…

CultureMap will deploy thousands of iBeacons across the US

By Eric David Jun 2, 2015

Bluetooth beacons are a growing trend in location-based advertising, with major companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc investing in the technology. Beacons are also becoming an increasingly important tool for gathering data related…

Steam now refunds game purchases within 14 days ‘for any reason’

By Eric David Jun 2, 2015

One of the drawbacks of many digital distribution platforms is their almost complete lack of a refund policy. For many services, once a digital good is bought, there is no way to return it…

GameFly picks up cloud company to build Netflix for games

By Eric David Jun 2, 2015

As the video game industry continues shifting away from physical games and toward digital distribution, the rental industry has all but evaporated. Now, GameFly (still a thing, apparently) is trying to turn the tide…

GameStop wins bidding war for ThinkGeek, Hot Topic’s deal is terminated

By Eric David Jun 2, 2015

Despite earlier reports that Hot Topic would be purchasing ThinkGeek, Inc.’s parent company, Geeknet, Inc., for $122 million, that deal has now been terminated and the company’s outstanding shares have been purchased in a surprise…

Supreme Court overturns conviction of man who sent death threats through Facebook

By Eric David Jun 1, 2015

The Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a man accused of sending his death threats to his wife and others via Facebook, and the case has raised new questions about when online threats…

How fear of penis towers held back progress on Lego Universe

By Eric David Jun 1, 2015

Sometimes it seems like it is an unwritten rule in gaming that if you give players the ability to build things, someone will eventually make a penis. Or a forest of penises. Or a giant penis…

Nintendo’s next console rumored to run on Android

By Eric David Jun 1, 2015

Even with the current success of Nintendo Co Ltd’s most recent family-friendly title, Splatoon, the Japanese game company still has its eyes on the next console generation, especially after the mediocre sales performance of the Wii U.…

Eric David

The Long Dark devs on balancing player feedback with creative vision

EA’s response to being the “worst company” and how it has changed

GOG Summer Sale 2015 opens with deals on Witcher 3 and hundreds more

CultureMap will deploy thousands of iBeacons across the US

Steam now refunds game purchases within 14 days ‘for any reason’

GameFly picks up cloud company to build Netflix for games

GameStop wins bidding war for ThinkGeek, Hot Topic’s deal is terminated

Supreme Court overturns conviction of man who sent death threats through Facebook

How fear of penis towers held back progress on Lego Universe

Nintendo’s next console rumored to run on Android

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