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

HP Helion takes advantage of the momentum and openness of OpenStack | #HPDiscover

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Cloud is changing the game in enterprise storage, and businesses interested in flexibility are looking at alternative options like OpenStack for their storage solutions. Rob Strechay, Director of Product Management at HP Storage, explained the benefits of using OpenStack in his live interview with …

Sick of auto-play video ads on Facebook? They’re not going away

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

If you thought popup ads were bad in the early days of the internet, loud videos that automatically play on visiting a site are even worse. Never one to let a marketing opportunity go to waste, Facebook Inc. began integrating auto-play videos …

Valve breaks into video game streaming with Steam Broadcasting

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Look out, Twitch.tv: Valve Corporation has just announced that it will be releasing Steam Broadcasting, a video game streaming service that will be baked into Valve’s incredibly popular Steam client. Steam already offered to ability to see what games friends are playing and …

Denuvo, the “uncrackable” DRM on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has been cracked

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

3dm, a Chinese group known for releasing cracked versions of pirated games, has stated that it has successfully broken Denuvo’s anti-tamper program, which is used on games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and FIFA 2015. Although it is generally referred to as “Denuvo …

FBI advises military to “scrub” social media of sensitive information

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

On Sunday, the FBI issued a warning to members of the U.S. military about the potential for attacks at home by the terrorist group ISIS. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint bulletin urging men and women in the …

Facebook users fall for copyright hoax – again

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

A hoax has been circulating on Facebook Inc. recently claiming that posting a legal disclaimer to your Facebook wall will protect your information from “commercial use” unless written consent is given. The disclaimer uses complicated legalese to sound official. One example states: “The content of my …

Forget violence – Sweden considers “sexist” video game rating

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

For years parents have been worried that video games would teach their children to be violent or at the very least lazy, but a government-funded study in Sweden is looking to tackle an issue in gaming that until recently was little talked about: …

Why Nintendo’s Game Boy mobile patent is bad news for emulators

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Nintendo Co., LTD. filed an application on Thursday with the United States Patent & Trademark Office for “Hand-Held Video Game Platform Emulation.” The patent would cover the use of video game software from the Nintendo Game Boy “on a low-capability target platform,” meaning …

Facebook privacy policy still might not be good enough for UK

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Reading the Facebook privacy policy is “like engaging with ‘Shakespeare’ ” according to a British committee, who says that social media sites should do more to ensure that users understand exactly what is being done with their data. The British parliament’s Science and …

Entitled or justified? Gamers criticize DayZ for raising price and pushing back release

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

PC gaming has one of the most volatile fan bases in video games, with gamers shifting from adoring fans to blood thirsty mob at the speed of tweet. The developers behind zombie survival game DayZ found out first hand yesterday how fast the …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Sick of auto-play video ads on Facebook? They’re not going away

Valve breaks into video game streaming with Steam Broadcasting

Denuvo, the “uncrackable” DRM on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has been cracked

FBI advises military to “scrub” social media of sensitive information

Facebook users fall for copyright hoax – again

Forget violence – Sweden considers “sexist” video game rating

Why Nintendo’s Game Boy mobile patent is bad news for emulators

Facebook privacy policy still might not be good enough for UK

Entitled or justified? Gamers criticize DayZ for raising price and pushing back release

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