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VideoExecute botting characters in RuneScape
Botany Bay give you the power.
VideoRuneScape Clan Citadels video
Build a giant flying fortress.
Jagex shows off its swords and skellingtons.
CEO on MechScape, RuneScape, Stellar Dawn, rivals.
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Jagex moves to reassure RuneScape players after its Chinese owner considers sale
"Jagex has never been in better shape..."
Jagex has moved to reassure RuneScape players after its Chinese owner announced it was considering selling the British game company just two years after it bought it.
Long-running fantasy MMORPG Old School RuneScape launches on mobile this October
Coming to iOS and Android.
Jagex has announced that Old School RuneScape, its long-running fantasy MMORPG, will launch on iOS and Android devices on October 30th, following a successful members-only beta testing period.
Old School RuneScape, for the uninitiated, is a version of the Jagex's massively-multiplayer online RPG as it released back in 2007 - and is not to be confused with (as easy as it is to do so) the now defunct Classic RuneScape or its modern incarnation.
When Old School RuneScape arrives on mobile in October, it will feature full cross-platform play with the PC version of the game, alongside a range of tweaks designed to streamline the experience on portable devices. These include a refined and optimised interface, touch-screen controls, and a customisable "one-touch action button".
Old School RuneScape has entered public beta testing on Android
iOS version expected "later in the summer".
Jagex has announced that the Android version of Old School RuneScape, its long-running fantasy MMORPG, has entered public beta, and is available to download now.
The developer revealed that RuneScape would be coming to mobile devices in July last year, noting that Old School RuneScape (that is, the version based on RuneScape's 2007 iteration) would release first, followed by the modern version.
Now, after what Jagex describes as "a series of incredibly successful closed testing periods", Old School RuneScape is finally available to download by interested parties on Android. There are, however, a number of caveats; firstly, only those with a RuneScape membership can play the game, and secondly, the developer is implementing an install limit, capping the number of users able to download Old School RunScape to their mobile device initially.
Jagex is shutting down RuneScape Classic after 17 years
"Due to the growing risk of unrecoverable game breaking bugs".
Jagex has announced that, after 17 years of operation, RuneScape Classic - the original version of its long-running fantasy MMO - will no longer be available to play on its servers from August 6th, 2018.
Game of a generation.
Security are scratching their heads over how to search them. Cosplay is one thing, but the two sword-toting armour-clad cosplayers strutting proudly toward the Battersea Evolution venue are something else entirely. One's wearing a standard but nevertheless impressive suit of armour, while the other's decked out in aged bronze seemingly styled after Cthulhu. They stick out like, well, like turquoise knights in London. Yet they also fit right in, because today, the venue is filled with thousands of people, men and women young and old, who all share the same hobby: Runescape.
FeatureAre loot boxes gambling?
Crate escape.
Sin City is the global capital of gambling. Casinos with colourful chips, well-postured croupiers and automaton pensioners plugged into slot machines. At first glance it might not seem sinister, but strip back the glamour and Las Vegas paints a sad picture - its denizens cogs in a billion-dollar machine fuelled by potentially addictive gaming. The novelty of the place can hide its true intentions.
PC and mobile cross-platform play coming to Runescape
Put on your party hat.
PC to mobile cross-platform play is coming to Runescape.
UPDATE: A rep from Jagex has told Eurogamer that it's not the Shandong company that has acquired Jagex. Rather, the investors are in the process of forming a games-specific Chinese company, which is being processed in the Chinese markets at the moment. So, at the time of publication, there's no formal name to identify the holding company.
15 years on, Runescape now has a new graphics engine
Comparison video conjured up.
Aging online adventure Runescape has been revamped with a fresh look, thanks to a new visual engine.
Chinese mining company buys Runescape dev for $300m - report
They've got some stones.
Here's an odd one: a Chinese mining company has bought Runescape developer Jagex for $300m.
Codemasters boss Rod Cousens leaves for Runescape developer
As UK studio readies F1 2015 for PS4 and Xbox One.
Codemasters boss Rod Cousens has stepped down after 10 years as CEO of the British game developer.
Runescape player swatted in front of 60K Twitch viewers
"I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you."
A Runescape player was swatted in front of 60,000 viewers on Twitch.
10 years later, Runescape's Lost City of the Elves finally opens its doors
Welcome to Prifddinas.
Jagex has opened the doors of an Elf City in Runescape that had been locked for 10 years.
Runescape frees up dormant accounts and old character names are up for grabs
Fonz! Banksy! Elton John?
Developer Jagex is freeing up millions of dormant Runscape accounts and in the process making once-taken character names available again.
You can donate your Runescape virtual gold to real world charity
Video game Well of Goodwill to benefit GamesAid, SpecialEffect, more.
Players of fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game Runescape can donate their in-game gold to real world charity.
RuneScape 3 attracts over 300,000 new players
Over 100,000 former players re-activate their accounts.
The launch of the third iteration of MMO RuneScape has attracted over 300,000 new players, developer Jagex has announced.
Jagex hopes to have RuneScape on tablets by the end of the year
"Would easily be the most ambitious game ever put on tablet, right?"
Incredibly popular, incredibly big, 12-year-old browser MMO RuneScape could be released on tablets before the end of the year.
RuneScape's got a novel new way of dealing with bots
It's Botany Bay.
RuneScape has a novel new way of dealing with bots: Botany Bay.
VideoExecute botting characters in RuneScape
Botany Bay give you the power.
Botany Bay give you the power.
MMO RuneScape being developed for tablets, smart TVs and other platforms
Being transposed from Java to HTML5.
RuneScape's preparing to fly the PC nest - the decade-old browser MMO is being developed for "your favourite tablets, platforms and even smart TVs".
RuneScape now and then comparison gallery
What a difference a decade makes.
What a difference a decade makes.
Rewrite the record books, RuneScape has passed 200 million registered users
Are you sure you don't care?
Regardless of whether you consider it a proper MMO or not, RuneScape today achieved something no other free-to-play online MMORPG ever has - 200 million registered users.
RuneScape Evolution of Combat expansion enters beta
"The biggest changes we've ever made," promises Jagex.
Long-running MMO RuneScape's Evolution of Combat expansion enters its beta phase today, developer Jagex has announced.
50,000 "elite" testers have been picked from the "hundreds of thousands" who applied to take part in the trial run.
In addition, all RuneScape players who have been members for the last 12 months and signed up for access automatically qualify to take part. And beyond that, all other regular players can access the beta during members-only open weekends, the first of which kicks off on 7th July.
Axe no more.
Axe no more.
RuneScape's combat system being "completely redesigned"
"Will fundamentally change the way people play and view RS forever."
Landmark browser MMO RuneScape is soon to undergo one of its biggest changes ever. The Evolution of Combat project will "completely revolutionise the way players fight and interact in the game".
Jagex suspends sci-fi Stellar Dawn MMO
Browser bout that.
Wealthy UK developer Jagex has suspended development of Stellar Dawn, the ambitious sci-fi MMO that was to follow RuneScape.
Runescape dev: physical games retail will disappear within 10 years
"The writing has been on the wall for quite some time."
Physical games retail will disappear within 10 years, the boss of Runescape maker Jagex has predicted.
RuneScape bot developers "neutered" in court battle
Jagex takes down iBOT brothers.
RuneScape developer Jagex has won a two-year-long legal battle with a pair of bot developers who had targeted its MMO.
Jagex reopening RuneScape Classic today
Contains before and after pictures.
The original RuneScape Classic will be reopened today to celebrate 10 years of the incredibly successful browser MMO.
RuneScape Clan Citadels expansion today
"The envy of the MMO world."
The gigantic Clan Citadels expansion has been released for RuneScape, Jagex has announced.
This allows guilds/clans to build their own floating city - a castle in the sky where you can meet, greet and even make your own RuneScape games using a sandbox battlefield editor. You can even invite other clans over for war and cake.
Any clan with five or more members can take ownership of a Citadel.
VideoRuneScape Clan Citadels video
Build a giant flying fortress.
Build a giant flying fortress.
RuneScape user-made content coming
Clan Citadels have sandbox battlefields.
This month, on 26th July, RuneScape will welcome a Clan Citadels expansion and offer guilds their own customisable flying castles.
RuneScape "Jagex Account" email a scam
Phony website will Phish your details.
Don't believe an authentic-looking email from RuneScape warning you that "Your Jagex Account" has received an "infraction" for breaking the game rules.
RuneFest 2011 dates, prices, details
Jagex's answer to BlizzCon.
Move over BlizzCon, move over EVE Fanfest, because RuneFest is back for a second year.
RuneFest is bulging British developer Jagex's celebration of RuneScape, the biggest free MMO there is.
The second RuneFest fan bonanza takes place at London's picturesque Old Billingsgate building on Saturday 29th October and Sunday 30th October.
RunesCape Veteran Cape: Jagex responds
Was the free-to-play community misled?
There's dissent among the RuneScape ranks because of a Veteran Cape.
Jagex shows off its swords and skellingtons.
Jagex reveals online Transformers game
TranScape?
Jagex, maker of extremely popular browser MMO RuneScape, is making a Transformers game.
RuneScape referendum restores content
Historic - hope they had the Cameron.
Gigantic old browser MMO RuneScape has witnessed an unprecedented act: a referendum to reinstate Free Trade and Wilderness to the game.
Jagex has third MMO in development
Besides RuneScape, besides Stellar Dawn.
Mark Gerhard has told Eurogamer that Jagex has a third, fantasy MMO in addition to RuneScape and Stellar Dawn.
CEO on MechScape, RuneScape, Stellar Dawn, rivals.
Jagex employs over 350 people and claims not only to be the UK's biggest developer and publisher, but to be second only to World of Warcraft in the MMO genre with browser-based fantasy adventure RuneScape.
Blizzard "probably very arrogant" - Jagex
"Perhaps even over-self-assured."
Jagex chief Mark Gerhard believes success has brought arrogance to Blizzard. He told Eurogamer that the World of Warcraft and StarCraft II maker now appears to be giving "two fingers up" to a democratised community.
UK tax situation "sucks" - Ninja Theory
"It scares me," adds Jagex CEO.
Top UK developers Jagex (RuneScape) and Ninja Theory (Enslaved) have told Eurogamer exactly what they think about the coalition government's about-turn on tax breaks for the videogames industry.
Free Realms is "insipid" - Jagex
No "joie de vivre", says RuneScape boss.
Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has called Sony's free-to-play MMO Free Realms "insipid".
RuneFest tickets on sale on Saturday
August fan event costs £80 to attend.
Jagex has announced that tickets for inaugural RuneScape fan convention RuneFest 2010 will go on sale on Saturday at 10am BST.
Jagex to hold RuneScape convention
RuneFest 2010 to hit London in August.
Jagex has announced that it's to hold its first RuneScape fan convention in central London on Saturday 28th August 2010.
FeatureJagex on RuneScape, MechScape and FunOrb
Mark Gerhard and Henrique Olifiers talk up the UK's biggest publisher.
You may never have heard of RuneScape, but the free-to-play MMO has over 10 million players and has made Jagex a lot of money. So much, in fact, that the company employs around 400 people across two Cambridge studios (and one London branch) and claims to be one of the biggest online publishers not only in the UK, but in the whole of Europe.
Sensible Soccer, now RuneScape.
Jon Hare and his hair have been appointed head of publishing at Jagex, which makes web-based MMO RuneScape, which makes lots and lots of money.
Gold sellers steal accounts - Blizzard
WOW operator explains hard-line stance.
Speaking to Nick Ryan for Eurogamer's Gold Trading Exposed feature series, a Blizzard spokesperson has explained the company's firm opposition to real money trading (RMT).
Run! Escape!
It seemed like a nice job: to be given the opportunity to write a light-hearted piece on the first steps in the browser-based MMORPG RuneScape - an industry outsider that's quietly the Western world's second most successful MMO. Nip in, work out what everyone loves, hide my conclusions at the end of some amiable fluff, and phone my bank to tell them not to be shocked when millions of Eurogamer pounds fly into my account. I'll start with my guesses as to its popularity, then play it.
Dutch court convicts teens of virtual theft
RuneScape robbers get community service.
Yahoo reports that a court in Holland has convicted two teenagers of stealing virtual items in the popular kids' MMO, RuneScape.
FunOrb targeting "every demographic"
Jagex casual site with you lot in mind.
Jagex has just launched its hardcore-focused website offering Java-based casual games.
FeatureThe Great Digital Gold-Rush
And how RuneScape reckons it beat it.
It took me endless hours of picking herbs in World of Warcraft before I decided to use real money to buy gold. I spent about fifty quid for an in-game thousand, and bought a purple epic mount. I went back and bought more as time went on; money that helped push our guild into hardcore raiding and splash out on other members. I was greedy with it as well, covering my second character in the very best.
Buying MMO gold is like funding prostitution
Says Runescape - but bigwig has solution.
RuneScape content boss Imre Jele says that those of you buying MMO currency are effectively funding digital organised crime, not to mention cheating and ruining the experience for everyone else.
