Official Site:Â RuneScape
Studio: Jagex Games Studio
Launch Date:Â January 4, 2001
Genre:Â Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Browser
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Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
RuneScape outlines content plans for 2022 and 2023, Old School RuneScape continues tuning its raid
RuneScape promised to outline plans for its next series of updates in its weekly newsletter, and sure enough it delivered. The devs at Jagex...
RuneScape lets Ironman and regular players fight bosses together, preps subscribers on fresh start world access
RuneScape's weekly update is primarily about combat, which might not seem terribly novel to most gamers except for the fact that the patch mostly...
Old School RuneScape opens up several beta tests for players
Do you want to do the work of testing content in Old School RuneScape? If so, the developers have good news for you, because...
Old School RuneScape preps a beta for its Wilderness boss rework while RuneScape pretties up starter zones
Old School RuneScape has discussed changing the bosses and lairs of the Wilderness zone before, but later this week on Wednesday, September 14th, players...
Old School RuneScape takes in feedback for quest speedrunning worlds
Last week, Jagex shared a rundown of how quest speedrunning worlds in Old School RuneScape would work, which in turn has brought forth some...
Old School RuneScape outlines another series of tweaks to the Tombs of Amascut
Old School RuneScape's recently released Tombs of Amascut raid has reportedly been getting a lot of player feedback and requests for adjustments, and while...
Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects
Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
Old School RuneScape elaborates on speedrunning worlds and tweaks Amascut, RuneScape launches a new Yak Track
Fancy yourself a speedrunner? Do you love playing Old School RuneScape? Soon you can experience both with the release of the sandbox MMORPG's speedrunning...
RuneScape’s fresh start worlds are being delayed to September 26 in order to adjust to player feedback
When RuneScape unveiled its fresh start worlds feature, it received a great deal of player feedback, prompting Jagex to write a follow-up that outlines...
Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...
Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
RuneScape applies a tiny bug fix patch, Old School RuneScape outlines release timing for Tombs of Amascut
There is some very tiny news coming out of Jagex's big MMORPGs this week. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have little updates for...
Old School RuneScape outlines adjustments coming to Wilderness bosses and their lairs
Old School RuneScape is focusing on fixing a bear, a spider, and a skeleton. Not just any normal version of these three classic MMORPG...
Old School RuneScape lauds Tombs of Amascut raid as its ‘most challenging and customizable’ yet
With the Tombs of Amascut raid making its way to Old School RuneScape on August 24th, it likely comes as no surprise that Jagex...
Fresh start servers are coming to RuneScape and Old School RuneScape this fall
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are long-established MMORPGs with years of history behind each one, and soon players of both titles will get...
The MOP Up: Survival sim Grounded tames gnats and preps for launch
Honey-I-shrunk-the-players survival sim Grounded's last big pre-launch patch arrived recently, adding gnat pets, a cookery building, and armor and weapon upgrade revamps. Grounded is...
Old School RuneScape adds new Last Man Standing rules and unveils a Tombs of Amascut trailer
How do you want to take on the Last Man Standing mode in Old School RuneScape? (Aside from impersonating Éowyn and proudly proclaiming you...
Old School RuneScape shares plans for a variety of mobile UI updates
Back in May, Old School RuneScape asked players of its mobile version to provide poll feedback on proposed UI changes, and now that the...
RuneScape throws a party to celebrate players’ creation of 300M accounts
300M is no small number and is the figure that RuneScape is heralding this week. Specifically, players have made 300M accounts in the MMORPG,...
