Category: Runescape News

RuneScape has started a new journey thanks to the launch of the NXT visual engine and game client. The company has been working on NXT for the past couple of years and it recently completed its beta phase of development.

According to DealStreetAsia.com, a Chinese firm has purchased Jagex Ltd in its entirety for $300M. Shandong Hongda Mining Co Ltd is the new owner and is a ferrous metal mining company headquartered in Shanghai, China. According to the news report. Shan…

Jagex has announced that its “experiment in emergent PvP”, Darkscape will be closed for good on March 28th. The company cites Darkscape’s novelty at the start, but that most players have moved back to Runescape and that continued development is not the…

Jagex is hosting a special charity event that will begin later today and run through Saturday. During the gaming event, as fund raising goals are met, team members will “get gooped with over 1,000 liters of pink, glittery unicorn poo”. The team will al…

A pocket-sized game that’s loaded with a heavyweight, continuing story? That’s the idea behind Runescape: Idle Adventures, an ongoing collaboration between Jagex and Hyper Hippo. We sent Gareth Harmer to meet with two developers behind the game and fin…

Jagex marks 15 years of Runescape with a flurry of announcements: Chronicle heads to open beta in March, Runescape: Idle Adventures is revealed, and much more besides. We sent columnist Gareth Harmer along to the birthday celebrations to find out more….

Jagex has announced that the first NXT beta weekend will take place beginning Friday, February 19th and that it will run through Monday, February 22nd. NXT is the new downloadable client based on C++ programming that is aiming to improve performance ov…

The RuneScape team continues to bring new features to the venerable title, this time in the form of a brand new elite skill called “invention”. Invention allows high-level layers to augment and customize gear with a large variety of perks. Players will…

Media types in London were treated to a most epic hand delivery of an invitation to the premier of the upcoming RuneScape documentary. Community and professional cosplayers took to the streets of London dressed as a knight on a unicorn, a herald and a …

Old School Runescape players have a new continent to explore with the release of the first region revealed called Zeah. Players will be able to access Zeah beginning today, with the second three regions to be launched over the next twelve months.