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 invites players to discover the Secrets of the North today
The Mahjarrat storyline of Old School RuneScape continues today as the Secrets of the North update is live with a new master level quest...
Vague Patch Notes: Embracing limited-time content modes in MMOs
Today's column was inspired by a discussion in work chat about limited-time game modes - specifically, the idea of something like that in World...
Old School RuneScape previews January’s updates and shares poll results for 2023 features
This week isn't seeing the usual update to Old School RuneScape as the devs at Jagex are presumably still on a bit of a...
The MOP Up: Spellcraft reflects upon growth and development in 2022
The Spellcraft team, made up of former ArenaNet and En Masse devs, paused their work on the upcoming real-time tactics game to reflect on...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2022?
Earlier this week, we dished out our "best MMO trend." Today, I want to talk about the worst trend, and really there are a...
Old School RuneScape begins Christmas event, RuneScape teases necromancy skill for 2023
Are you the kind of person who likes to get spooky in RuneScape? Then you're the right player for the upcoming necromancy skill that...
Old School RuneScape’s Winter Summit unveils new quests, forestry features, and poll-driven new skill
This past weekend saw the Winter Summit showcase from Old School RuneScape drop a whole bunch of promised reveals for 2023's content plans, but...
RuneScape and OSRS suffer server rollback after another bout of login problems
It's unfortunately happening again: Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are having problems with login servers, only this time around it's forcing both MMORPGs...
Old School RuneScape layers on new features for speedrunning worlds and applies the last of Poll 77’s updates
This week has brought some new goodies to the speedrunning worlds of Old School RuneScape. Specifically, two new quest options are moving from "beta"...
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2022
When you're investing a whole lot of time and (potentially) money into MMORPGs, you want to make sure that your game isn't going belly-up...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best console or mobile experience as of 2022?
I have noted before that while I have two consoles and love to game on my phone, I'm probably always going to be a...
Old School RuneScape compensates players for outage, details content fixes, teases Winter Summit reveals
Old School RuneScape is just bursting at the seams with news this week, do we're going to be taking a moment to condense it...
RuneScape outlines December’s quest and events, Old School RuneScape opens the Garden of Death
One game's festive, the other game's unashamedly aggressive. They're RuneScape and Old School RuneScape respectively, and both games have offered up information about what's...
RuneScape prepares for the holiday season, Old School RuneScape content creators battle for billions of gold
The holiday season looms large in RuneScape as the newest weekly update post happily points at its Christmas goodies. Specifically, players should be seeing...
The Daily Grind: What are some cool demonyms for players of different MMOs?
You're probably wondering what a demonym is, so I'm gonna tell you up front: No, it's not your demon name; it's the descriptive noun...
Battle Bards Episode 218: Peace and quiet
If anyone’s ever told you to “take a chill pill,” then the Battle Bards have your full dosage in today’s episode. Exploring peaceful and...
Jagex offers another follow-up on earlier RuneScape and Old School RuneScape outages
The beginning of the week in RuneScape and Old School RuneScape is typified by a weekly patch that adds stuff to do or applies...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape return to service after lengthy outage
RuneScape and sibling Old School RuneScape have not been having the best week.
Yesterday, Jagex suffered a major data center outage snafu that kept both...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape players cannot login as data centers suddenly go dark
Jagex's engineers are having a very bad Tuesday right now. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are suffering from a shared data center outage,...
