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.
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 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.
Aging online adventure Runescape has been revamped with a fresh look, thanks to a new visual engine.
Here's an odd one: a Chinese mining company has bought Runescape developer Jagex for $300m.
Codemasters boss Rod Cousens has stepped down after 10 years as CEO of the British game developer.
A Runescape player was swatted in front of 60,000 viewers on Twitch.
Jagex has opened the doors of an Elf City in Runescape that had been locked for 10 years.
Developer Jagex is freeing up millions of dormant Runscape accounts and in the process making once-taken character names available again.
Players of fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game Runescape can donate their in-game gold to real world charity.
The launch of the third iteration of MMO RuneScape has attracted over 300,000 new players, developer Jagex has announced.
Incredibly popular, incredibly big, 12-year-old browser MMO RuneScape could be released on tablets before the end of the year.
RuneScape has a novel new way of dealing with bots: Botany Bay.
Botany Bay give you the power.
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".
What a difference a decade makes.
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.
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.
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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".
Wealthy UK developer Jagex has suspended development of Stellar Dawn, the ambitious sci-fi MMO that was to follow RuneScape.
Physical games retail will disappear within 10 years, the boss of Runescape maker Jagex has predicted.
RuneScape developer Jagex has won a two-year-long legal battle with a pair of bot developers who had targeted its MMO.
The original RuneScape Classic will be reopened today to celebrate 10 years of the incredibly successful browser MMO.
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.
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Build a giant flying fortress.
This month, on 26th July, RuneScape will welcome a Clan Citadels expansion and offer guilds their own customisable flying castles.
Don't believe an authentic-looking email from RuneScape warning you that "Your Jagex Account" has received an "infraction" for breaking the game rules.
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.
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There's dissent among the RuneScape ranks because of a Veteran Cape.
Jagex, maker of extremely popular browser MMO RuneScape, is making a Transformers game.
Gigantic old browser MMO RuneScape has witnessed an unprecedented act: a referendum to reinstate Free Trade and Wilderness to the game.
Mark Gerhard has told Eurogamer that Jagex has a third, fantasy MMO in addition to RuneScape and Stellar Dawn.
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.
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.
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.
Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has called Sony's free-to-play MMO Free Realms "insipid".
Jagex has announced that tickets for inaugural RuneScape fan convention RuneFest 2010 will go on sale on Saturday at 10am BST.
Jagex has announced that it's to hold its first RuneScape fan convention in central London on Saturday 28th August 2010.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Yahoo reports that a court in Holland has convicted two teenagers of stealing virtual items in the popular kids' MMO, RuneScape.
Jagex has just launched its hardcore-focused website offering Java-based casual games.
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.
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.
