Jagex is hiring for a new IP, one that appears to be built on the Unreal Engine. A job listing on Jagex’s corporate website lists New IP hiring a number of positions including game director, product director, senior roles, as well as a lead environment artist. The job listings don’t give a whole lot of … Continue reading “Jagex Hiring For Unreal Engine Title”
Jagex this week gave its players a new reason to grind out those levels and farm those farms with the expansion of two skills and introduction of new content to RuneScape. Foremost on the list of additions this week is the expansion of the Farming and Herblore skills, increasing the skill caps to 120 and … Continue reading “Jagex Grinds Out 120 Farming/Herblore This Week”
RuneScape. Financially the game is in a fantastic position; back in May we discussed how Jagex had posted a 9.3% increase in overall revenue with subscription numbers at their highest ever in the game’s history thanks to the launch of Old School mobile. But all has not been great on the western front. MMO Fallout … Continue reading “Jagex Will Discuss RuneScape Monetization On November 5 Stream”
This weekend kicked off Runefest, Jagex’s festival to all things RuneScape. If you want to see some cosplay, buy some merch, and play RuneScape with other people who also enjoy RuneScape enough to fly to England and buy a ticket to a weekend convention, you’ve come to the right place. Among the upcoming content to … Continue reading “Runefest 2019: Jagex To Discuss New Skill (Archaeology) Today (10/5)”
Jagex today announced that they are cancelling the weapon diversity update, a project that had been in beta for the last month. The weapon diversity program was meant to differentiate weapons from one another on a more solid grounding, but the major impression was that the update just wasn’t transformative enough. Most changes were being … Continue reading “Jagex Cancels Weapon Diversity Update, At Least For Now”
Today’s In Plain English is going to be a short one, but you’ll understand why when you see that the gist of it is about six sentences long. It comes to us from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and involves everyone’s favorite developer of RuneScape: Jagex. Along with their parent company Shanghai Fukong, Jagex last … Continue reading “In Plain English: Court Throws Out Jagex Ban Lawsuit After Five Days”
Jagex is very concerned with how new players take in their first few minutes in RuneScape, and they are kind of concerned regarding the impression players are getting from logging in and seeing the starting area full of players in high level armor fighting rats. Magic splashing is a widespread method of training the skill, … Continue reading “Jagex Hides AFK Magic Trainers From New Players”
The next big update to RuneScape is on its way, in fact it is being released this coming Monday! In preparation for the update, Jagex has launched a dedicated website for Land Out Of Time where players can find more information on the coming update. Land Out Of Time is the latest expansion of RuneScape’s … Continue reading “Jagex Launches Dedicated Website For Land Out Of Time”
Way back in April Jagex announced an aggressive recruitment project that would see the company expanding by 25% over the course of the year. Today, Jagex has expanded on its recruitment by announcing multiple senior level hires starting with Melissa Bachman-Wood who is coming on as vice president of studio. Bachman-Wood brings over 20 years … Continue reading “Jagex Hires Melissa Bachman-Wood As Aggressive Recruitment Continues”
Update 4/28/20: Yes they have. (Update: 7/11: No they haven’t) Jagex is no longer Chinese owned. This news was first revealed back in the old era of January 2019, but this week China’s Fukong Interactive Entertainment announced that they will sell Jagex which it described as their major source of revenue. The goal of the … Continue reading “Jagex Bought By US Platinum Fortune”
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