Our latest coverage of RuneScape.
During a recent RuneScape livestream, Jagex Mod Shauny accidentally leaked a logo for something called "NextGen." While it was accidental, and Shauny immediately attempted to cut the stream off after realizing his mistake, this is the internet and the incident was saved and the relevant footage can be found embedded below. While we have absolutely no details about the potential [...]
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With RuneScape's Menaphos: The Golden City expansion fast approaching, Jagex has taken it among themselves to begin revealing some of the expansion's contents. Today, the company unveiled a "new and fast-paced skilling activity for mid- and high-level players" called "The Shifting Tombs." The Shifting Tombs is an activity in which players have five minutes to run through procedurally-generated catacombs and [...]
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RuneScape received a new content update today that introduces a "combat minigame" called Shattered Worlds. In Shattered Worlds, players hack and slash their way through a multitude of enemies spread out across a set of " procedurally generated maps packed with a mash-up of RuneScape environments, enemies, and mutator effects." In addition to reward currency, players will get "a rare [...]
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On June 5th, a city that RuneScape players have been able to see, but never visit, for more than twelve years will open its gates for the first time. Players will finally be able to explore Menaphos: The Golden City, a massive city that features hanging gardens, streams, and even a pyramid. Menaphos will feature a story of corruption, new [...]
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It’s been nearly a year since Jagex and their flagship game RuneScape was acquired by the Chinese company Fukong Interactive Entertainment. So how are things fairing over at Jagex? Well, if their newly refurbished offices are any indication, they seem to be doing quite well. Jagex COO and Acting CEO Phil Mansell sits down with Game Industry’s Christopher Dring to [...]
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RuneScape's 15th anniversary has passed but the celebrations haven't ended, and Jagex has released a documentary following the MMORPGs humble beginnings and its transformation into one of the most successful online games available. You can scroll down to watch it. I remember playing RuneScape in my middle-school's library around the same it came out. The kid on the right and [...]
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Jagex announced today that 2016 was a year of "record performance" for it. The company saw a 28% increase in revenues year-over-year, totaling £74.4 million in revenues. Profits after tax increased to £28.8 million. For comparison, the company's 2015 revenues totaled £57.9 million, whereas its 2014 revenues totaled £44.9 million. Jagex attributes its success this year to investment in RuneScape [...]
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Party Pete always throws the best bashes and he's celebrating the 4th birthday of Old School RuneScape. Better hand over your keys, ol' Petey needs your help. Players can head to the Falador party room and ask Pete what he needs to get the dance floor grooving. Helping out Party Pete will grant all the rewards from previous birthday bonanzas: [...]
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Welcome to 2017, everybody. Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America, AFI released a self-titled album over two and a half decades into their career, and the RuneScape franchise is continuing to grow with the release of...an audio adventure made for Amazon's Alexa. Indeed, Jagex has released the first in a series of audio adventures for Alexa [...]
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In just one week, a three and a half-year long storyline in RuneScape will come to a "cataclysmic conclusion" with the release of "Sliske's Endgame." The new grandmaster quest is "the most personalized quest [...] ever released" in RuneScape. In it, "Your choices from throughout RuneScape's body of quests will be acknowledged, enriching your experience like never before," as you [...]
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