RuneScape News

RuneScape is celebrating its 23rd anniversary, not with the traditional anniversary cape giveaway, but with a colorful birthday hat instead. The Birthday Buff Bonanza event has officially begun in the free-to-play MMORPG featuring daily buffs that you’ll need to activate to gain progress towards unlocking, not one, but two Fancy Hat headgears. “Each [buff] activation from January 8th to 21st [...]

The Christmas Village has reopened its doors as RuneScape joins the rest of the MMO community in celebrating the holidays. As part of the event, players will get to enjoy weekly buffs, free daily challenge extensions, and tier 4 luck until January 4. Meanwhile, the entire development team has gone on their holiday breaks with a promise to return on [...]

The iconic party hats are making a comeback in RuneScape after more than 20 years when the classic free-to-play MMORPG kicks off its Christmas event tomorrow. The event will take place in the new Christmas Village seasonal hub which can be found in the Land of Snow and will only be open for the duration of the event. For context, [...]

RuneScape players are in for another big fight against an ancient dragon as the Battle for Forinthry update officially hits the live servers as was foretold many moons ago. The classic MMORPG’s latest update will task players with defending Forth Forinthry through a siege, culminating in an epic battle against the undead dragon Vorkath and the necromancer Zemouregal himself. “Upon [...]

Another ancient dragon is waiting to sow chaos in RuneScape with the arrival of the classic MMORPG’s Vorkath, Battle for Forinthry update later this month. As the title suggests, players will go toe to toe with the eponymous dragon and the necromancer Zemouregal as part of the ongoing Fort Forinthry questline. “Our new quest and boss battle takes place during [...]

A new RuneScape newsletter is on deck with updates on the current state of the game and previews of an upcoming RuneScape-inspired cookbook of, of all things. The more important bit of news is that open beta testing has begun for the previously announced combat changes and adjustments coming to the classic MMORPG. Over the next few weeks, testers will [...]

Now that RuneScape players have had time to properly acquaint themselves with the new Necromancy combat style and content, Jagex has now shifted its focus to fine-tuning high-level skills across the board and incorporating some of the new Necromancy skills and abilities to melee, ranged, and magic combat styles. “Since its release, Necromancy has proved to be an extremely adaptable [...]

In the spirit of Halloween, Jagex has updated RuneScape’s recently released Necromancer combat skill line with the release of today’s Ancient Awakening update. The update introduced a new Necromancer quest that will take them to the mysterious island of Ungael and will ultimately lead to a new boss fight next month. “Joined by a full adventuring party, featuring Raptor the [...]

After a month of stubbornly refusing to remove RuneScape’s controversial new Hero Pass system, Jagex has finally caved in. The studio introduced the controversial battle pass system last September amid intense criticism from the community, particularly since it offered more rewards to paying subscribers. As compromise, the studio promptly made changes to the system but maintained that they had no [...]

Late last month, Jagex decided to go ahead and release a new monetized battle pass track for RuneScape despite massive pushback from the fantasy MMORPG’s community. The studio later said that it was willing to make changes to the so-called Hero Pass but insisted that they had no plans to remove it regardless of the community feels. The studio promptly [...]