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.

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Twitter invests big in bluetooth beacon startup Swirl Networks

Twitter, Inc. has been scrambling to find ways to monetize its microblog service, and now it may have found an answer thanks to a recent investment in beacon technology startup Swirl Networks, Inc. Swirl announced that it has completed an $18 million investment round that included Twitter Ventures, as well as Hearst, SoftBank and others. ...

Steam Workshop now lets content creators sell mods, but will anyone buy?

Valve Corporation has continued to provide Steam Workshop content creators with new avenues of making money, such as when it announced inventory support for games in February. By the end of last year, content creators had earned over $57 million from transactions on Steam Workshop since the platform was launched in 2011, and now Valve will ...

John Cleese on self assessment and why he loves geeks | #Know15

Actor and comedy legend John Cleese joined theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at Knowledge 15 in Las Vegas to talk about geeks, conventions, and everything wrong with the world. “I like geeks because they all like Monty Python,” Cleese joked. He explained that most of the speeches he gives are to people in ...

Facebook’s “Hello” app is a social media caller ID and phone dialer

Last month, news leaked that Facebook might be working on a new phone dialer app, and now it looks like those rumors were true. Facebook has announced a new product called Hello, a caller ID and dialer app made by the Messenger team that pulls in Facebook profiles for phone numbers. “Billions of calls are made ...

World of Warcraft creative lead Rob Pardo joins Unity as an advisor

Unity Technologies has announced that World of Warcraft Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo will be joining the game engine company as a creative advisor. Pardo is a veteran of the video game industry, and he has worked on several highly successful and influential games in his time at Blizzard Entertainment, including Warcraft III: Reign of ...

Rock Band 4 will be co-published by peripheral maker Mad Catz

It has been a long time since a new Rock Band title was released—about three years to be exact, and that is only if you count the Frequency-like rhythm game Rock Band Blitz. It has been closer to five years since Rock Band 3. Earlier this year, Rock Band maker Harmonix Music Systems Corp announced that it would finally ...

Sign-ups for free HTC Vive VR dev kits are now available

The gaming community was both surprised and intrigued when Valve Corp and HTC Corp announced their virtual reality partnership earlier this year during HTC’s Mobile World Congress presentation. The HTC Vive VR headset is set to challenge Oculus VR in the small but rapidly growing consumer virtual reality market, but as with any new multimedia ...

YouTube cuts support to older iOS devices and smart TVs

Google has decided that it is no longer worth supporting YouTube on older devices, so the company has announced that it will be pulling the plug on several outdated systems, including older Apple TVs, iOS devices, and smart TVs. “As we upgrade the YouTube Data API to bring more features, we’ll begin shutting down the ...

White House wants to use games to “address societal challenges” says former advisor

The U.S. government has had a tense relationship with video games since at least the debate about violence in gaming in the early 1990s, but Mark DeLoura, former Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House, says that relationship has changed in recent years, and now the government is more concerned with the good ...

A super smart Twitter bot may be playing the stock market

Machines have been disrupting the job market for around 200 years, but until recently, those machines still needed a human operating the mill or driving the combine. But now the ongoing advancements in automation have led some analysts to say that we are living in the midst of a third industrial revolution, and the changes affect more than ...