Gaming

Playing Videogames is a Resume-Booster?

Says someone who writes for the Wall Street Journal, which is a publication deserving of high praise, though my trial membership just converted to a full-priced one. The article in question is titled When a Passion for Videogames Helps Land That Job,

Market Making in Runescape in 2007 Part 3

In part 1, I geeked out about what Runescape was. In part 2, I covered some of the most likely strategies for enterprising merchants. In this post, we’ll don our black hats and explore the darker side of Runescape’s markets. Wildly

Market Making in Runescape in 2007 Part 2

In part 1, I provided historical context. I explained what Runescape was and why Runescape was so great in the mid-aughts. I also provided details pertaining to the machinations of the in-game economy and the player-to-player trading system. In this

Market Making in Runescape in 2007 Part 1

Back in 2007, Runescape was one of the most popular games on the internet. Today, an “old school” version of the game, released in 2013, that preserves beloved late-2007 mechanics regularly has over 100,000 concurrent players. This warms my heart.

I haven’t seriously played Runescape in almost ten years, but one of the first posts I ever made to this blog, An Optimal Runescape Staking Build, remains the most popular article here. It was haphazardly assembled and I never had

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: October 19th, 2017 Reading Time: A week Note: At time of posting this here, this is my most popular

I’ve regularly proclaimed Diablo 2 as the greatest video game of all time. Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which devotes one section to the disaster that was Diablo 3, revels in the brilliance of Diablo 2, but plainly states

Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle

September 2018 Update: Staking has changed significantly due to recent game updates. I wrote a follow-up article covering that. I will leave this unedited, though I have come to suspect I made an error in my calculations and also dislike the verbosity. If