Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

Look out Twitch: ESL forms two-year esports streaming partnership with Azubu

By Eric David Mar 11, 2016

Twitch may be the undisputed king of livestreaming when it comes to video games, but its esports-focused rival, Azubu, has been steadily gaining ground over the last few years. Today, Azubu announced that his has landed…

Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Microsoft’s UWP is a good idea, but it still needs to change

By Eric David Mar 10, 2016

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney stirred the hornet’s nest at Microsoft last week when he denounced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in an op-ed for The Guardian, criticizing it as “a closed platform-within-a-platform.” “In…

Hitman’s episodic model “a very natural and beneficial evolution” says creative director

By Eric David Mar 10, 2016

Earlier this year, IO Interactive announced that its upcoming Hitman game would be released as a series of episodes rather than a single title, and the move received a mixed response from fans. The studio…

Ubisoft’s ‘The Division’ broke company records for the most copies sold in 24 hours

By Eric David Mar 10, 2016

Despite a few launch day server hiccups, Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s The Division seems to have been the company’s most successful launch to date, selling more copies in 24 hours than all of its previous games. The…

Twitter sets sights on game devs by offering full Unity support for Fabric

By Eric David Mar 9, 2016

Mobile game developers will now have a few more tools at their disposal, as Twitter Inc. announced today that its development platform, Fabric, now offers full support for the popular Unity 5 game engine. “For…

Google’s AlphaGo AI has successfully beaten the Go world champion in its first of five games

By Eric David Mar 9, 2016

Just two months ago, Google’s DeepMind project shocked the tech world by announcing that its Go-playing artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, had successfully beaten a professional Go player, a feat that AI researchers had previously thought was…

Hearthstone’s new Deck Recipes aim to ease new players into deck building

By Eric David Mar 8, 2016

Always wanting to make its games more accessible, Blizzard Entertainment Inc has announced that it is introducing Deck Recipes to Hearthstone to give players a head start in building their own decks. The new feature, which seems to…

SuperData less optimistic about VR, slashes 2016 forecast by nearly a third

By Eric David Mar 8, 2016

Earlier this year, game industry analytics firm SuperData Research Inc released a report predicting the near future of the virtual reality market, saying that it believed the VR industry would reach $5.1 billion in revenue…

Bottlenose adds two major data sources to supercharge its smart data discovery platform

By Eric David Mar 8, 2016

Smart data discovery company Bottlenose Inc has announced the addition of two major new sources to its ever-expanding data library: LexisNexis, which stores offline data from government, academic, and industry sources; and Flashpoint, which stores…

Google’s Project Fi phone service drops the invite requirement, offers Nexus 5X for $199

By Eric David Mar 7, 2016

Google has announced that its Project Fi phone service will be ditching its invitation requirement less than two months before the program’s one-year anniversary. Project Fi, which first launched in April 2015, is a phone…

Eric David

Look out Twitch: ESL forms two-year esports streaming partnership with Azubu

Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Microsoft’s UWP is a good idea, but it still needs to change

Hitman’s episodic model “a very natural and beneficial evolution” says creative director

Ubisoft’s ‘The Division’ broke company records for the most copies sold in 24 hours

Twitter sets sights on game devs by offering full Unity support for Fabric

Google’s AlphaGo AI has successfully beaten the Go world champion in its first of five games

Hearthstone’s new Deck Recipes aim to ease new players into deck building

SuperData less optimistic about VR, slashes 2016 forecast by nearly a third

Bottlenose adds two major data sources to supercharge its smart data discovery platform

Google’s Project Fi phone service drops the invite requirement, offers Nexus 5X for $199

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