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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The MOP Up: Warframe battles cancer (September 3, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?
It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...
RuneScape beefs up inventions, offers more path to skill gear
With RuneScape, it always helps to wear specialized outfits to help you level up a particular skill more efficiently -- but sometimes this gear...
Battle Bards Episode 102: Pure joy
Is it even possible for pure joy to be derived from MMORPG music? Whether or not, the Battle Bards are going to take a...
Check out Villagers and Heroes’ Starfall revamp trailer
We've been keeping an eye on Villagers and Heroes all summer as it's been prepping its 4.0 update. Dubbed Starfall, the update is a...
Global Chat: Dipping into Albion Online
Now that Albion Online has officially launched, what's the verdict? It's a little hard to get a feel for that, since I haven't seen...
RuneScape lays out its ‘unfinished business’
Making MMOs is never a thing where there's a day that the game is finally complete. Always in motion, these developers are, and none...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 128: Geeks at Disney World
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, World of Warcraft, Dark and Light, RuneScape, RIFT, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on when an MMO "clicks" (specifically, FFXIV) and what non-fantasy MMOs still exist.
Villagers and Heroes slams RuneScape over ‘first-ever cross-platform MMO’ claims
Buckle up, MMO fans, because it's about to get really weird up in here. There seems to be this strange struggle between studios these days...
The Stream Team: Beating Chronicle: RuneScape Legends’ Bandit King (plus giveaway)
In her last push to make it to the end of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends‘ PvE campaign, Massively OP's MJ was waylaid by the Bandit...
RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch
Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
Albion Online expands its launch rollout
Some MMOs have launch days, but some MMOs are not Albion Online, which is claiming a good chunk of this week to officially release...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are adding cross-platform mobile play
Attention, RuneScape and Old School RuneScape players who have hitherto been chained to your desktops or laptops to play: Set yourselves free! Jagex just announced...
RuneScape developer Jagex is hiring for an unannounced free-to-play MMO
While sitting on top of the enormously successful RuneScape, Jagex has had a difficult go of it producing a follow-up MMORPG. Projects like Stellar...
RuneScape is on the Switch (using the Rainway app)
If you're one of the small army of people wondering when you can play your favorite MMOs on the Nintendo Switch for some reason,...
Jukebox Heroes: Six goofy RuneScape tunes
Over the past year I've nearly been bested by the unclimbable mountain that is the RuneScape soundtrack. With well over 1,200 tracks currently existing...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
The Stream Team: Entering the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos
RuneScape just opened up a giant city of Menaphos. Do want to peek inside and see what is different in the game's first big...
Old School RuneScape players threaten to riot over LGBTQ pride event
Old School RuneScape's playerbase isn't showing its best side this week.
Motherboard reports that following the announcement by a Jagex employee that a small gay...
Preview: Behind the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos, opening today
One of the worst teases in a game for me is to see a place and not be able to go and explore it....
