RuneScape is doing just fine, thank you. This week Jagex released their 2018 financials and boasted a 9.3% increase in revenue to £92.8 million. 2018 saw RuneScape reaching its highest membership total ever with Old School RuneScape launching on mobile and seeing over five million downloads. CEO Phil Mansell noted: “This lets us accelerate Jagex’s … Continue reading “Lods of Emone: Jagex Posts Record Financial Success”
Jagex Ltd., developers of the popular MMO RuneScape, have announced a hiring drive that will see the Cambridge studio boost its staff by 25% over 2019. To kick off the hiring drive, Jagex has revealed two big-name developers joining the team. First is Dan Vargas serving as art director for an unnamed online role … Continue reading “[Hiring] Jagex Looks To Expand Studio By 25% In 2019”
Jagex is kicking off International Women’s Day with a Reddit Ask Me Anything. “We’d love to inspire more women to join the games industry and we’re excited to talk about all the different and awesome skills that are needed to make video games! As such, we are from all sectors within the business from HR … Continue reading “Jagex Celebrates International Women’s Day With Reddit AMA”
Today marks the release of The Shadow Reef, the third and final Elite Dungeon in an ongoing trilogy. Set in the ancient sunken temple of Ulthven Kreath, players face a hostile environment full of aggressive enemies before a chilling encounter with The Ambassador, a malevolent creature that dwells in the deep. “Last summer, we created … Continue reading “Jagex Releases Elite Dungeon Finale”
Reuters is reporting that Shanghai Fukong International plans to sell its partial or full stock in RuneScape developer Jagex at some time presumably in the near future. Shanghai Fukong International was formed in 2016 and is a venture capital firm that bought all investments from Jagex’s previous investors for a 100% stake in the developer to … Continue reading “Shanghai Fukong International Plans To Sell Its Stake In Jagex”
RuneScape is well known for its constantly changing landscape and design philosophy, weekly content updates will do that to you. The completion capes involve a long list of achievements in-game. As a show of their difficulty, these caps also happen to be best in slot stats and utility, which has made them almost mandatory for … Continue reading “Jagex Polls Completion Cape Changes In RuneScape”
Jagex has given a statement on an incident that took place over the weekend in which RuneScape streamer Aus Swag was banned from both Twitch and RuneScape for conduct during a live stream. Aus Swag called an individual live on air, one that he knew to be suicidal, and told her “I think you should … Continue reading “Jagex Distances Itself From Streamer Bully”
With the launch of RuneScape on mobile devices, Jagex this week announced that they will be changing their policy in regards to how the company approaches mobile app developers using RuneScape’s IP to create unofficial companion programs. In a post published this week, the UK developer stated that they will be reaching out to app … Continue reading “Jagex Issues Warning To Mobile Apps”
For years now RuneScape has had a bit of a problem with its mini-games, namely that there have been a lot of them added throughout the years and very few are actually populated by any traffic. Couple that with the fact that many of these mini-games include rewards, and you simply have a growing list … Continue reading “Jagex Kills Off Mobilising Armies Mini-Game”
It is November and that means time for a new annual premier club sale. RuneScape’s premier club generally goes on sale from mid-late November and stays available until early February. Perks for this year’s premier club include: 1 additional Treasure Hunter key per day 150,000 bonus loyalty points 3 premier club reward tokens (issued throughout … Continue reading “Jagex Details Premier Club 2019”
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