Official Site: RuneScape
Studio: Jagex Games Studio
Launch Date: January 4, 2001
Genre: Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Browser
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Old School RuneScape adds solo Inferno dungeon and lava fishing
Old School RuneScape has gotten a fresh update this week, and it's going to do its best to kick your ass: with a lava-drenched...
Global Chat: Freaking out over Destiny 2
Ever since the Destiny 2 reveal, everyone seems to be freaking out about this follow-up MMO shooter. Will it be the new hotness or...
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Improbable keeps popping up in news stories relating to MMOs lately -- that's thanks to SpatialOS, what the company is calling a "distributed computing...
RuneScape’s new slayer dungeon breaks all of the rules
Just because RuneScape's standard skill cap is set at 99 won't stop the team from busting through that ceiling when next month's expansion arrives.
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RuneScape’s Jagex is the latest MMORPG studio to employ Improbable’s SpatialOS
Add another gaming studio partnership to Improbable's file: RuneScape developer Jagex announced today that it's teamed up with the tech company to deploy SpatialOS...
Jagex leaks ‘Next-Gen’ project slide; is it for RuneScape?
During a weekend stream of RuneScape, Jagex Community Manager Shaun "Shauny" Akerman appears to have let slip a logo for an unannounced Jagex project...
Runescape Idle Adventures is shutting down on May 15
Remember Runescape: Idle Adventures? Probably not, which is probably a good part of the reason why the game is rather quietly shuttering its doors...
RuneScape adds procedurally generated The Shifting Tombs to Menaphos expansion
RuneScape fans anticipating the free Menaphos: The Golden City expansion launching June 5th just received some juicy info about the upcoming adventures that's sure...
RuneScape blasts off to the Shattered Worlds
Looking for a new challenge in RuneScape? Jagex has opened up the Shattered Worlds, a chain of islands that contain ever-fiercer (and stranger) foes....
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
Tale of Toast’s cute aesthetics hide old-school challenge
Don't judge a book by its cover, they say, and certainly don't go making assumptions about the difficulty levels of MMORPGs by how gritty...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
RuneScape DDoS hacker gets two years in U.K. prison
Ever hear that expression, "His name is mud?" It applies on every level to the incarceration of one Adam Mudd this week, who received...
RuneScape plans Menaphos update for June 5, addresses Spring Fayre uproar
RuneScape's been teasing its Menaphos: The Golden City update for what seems like months, but today, the expansion's getting a hard date: June 5th....
RuneScape’s Jagex flourishes under Chinese ownership
Following Jagex's sale to China's Fukong Interactive Entertainment back in 2016, there's been some concern and curiosity over the fate of the studio and...
Perfect Ten: Time travel in MMORPGs
Over the years, I've been fascinated with the concept of time in MMORPGs. It's one of those things that developers probably don't want you...
PSA: RuneScape’s sub fee is effectively $0 this month for Twitch Prime peeps
Remember last fall when Twitch and Amazon announced Twitch Prime, a new combined service for Prime that grants customers a bunch of video game...
The Stream Team: Completing Chronicle RuneScape Legends’ campaign mode (plus giveaway)
It's taken a few rounds, but Massively OP's MJ is nearing the end of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends‘ PvE campaign. She has only two more...
Massively OP’s spring and Easter MMORPG event roundup
Bunnies and eggs! Flowers and grass! Lots and lots of chocolate as we hoard every Cadbury thing we can find! (Or maybe that's just...
RuneScape airs ’15 Years of Adventure’ documentary
"This is the story of a world created in a kitchen. Of a community bonding as they kill chickens or fish for sharks. It's a...
