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IGN Reports Divination As RuneScape's New Skill

Ever since Jagex released RuneScape 2 in 2004, the developer has looked at making its skills more varied in use than simple gathering from nodes and production using those items. Skills like farming require patience and timing, construction is directly related to player owned housing, summoning brought in familiars, and dungeoneering opened a whole new area of the game’s lore. While skills normally release around two to three years apart, Jagex unveiled two new skills coming in 2013, without giving a whole lot of information surrounding them.

IGN has unveiled that the first skill will apparently be Divination.

Two new skills will also be added to the game; while one hasn’t been revealed, the other, divination, will apparently play a key role in the latter stages of RuneScape 3’s story.

Jagex recently shook up the RuneScape world by ushering it into the Sixth Age of the timeline. The god Guthix has been killed and with his death the edicts preventing the other deities from meddling in the world are gone as well. In the months and years to come, players will decide which god prevails.

(Source: IGN)

IGN Reports Divination As RuneScape’s New Skill

IGN has unveiled that the first skill will apparently be Divination.

Two new skills will also be added to the game; while one hasn’t been revealed, the other, divination, will apparently play a key role in the latter stages of RuneScape 3’s story.

(Source: IGN)

RuneScape Coming To Tablets This Year

RuneScape has some pretty massive updates coming this year, from two skills to an overhauled interface, the move to HTML5 as well as Jagex’s continued pledge to weekly content additions. In the past, Jagex has talked about the trouble of bringing RuneScape to consoles, particularly that Sony and Microsoft refuse to allow players to be on the same servers with their cross-console counterparts. Since then, Jagex has shifted focus mainly toward getting RuneScape on mobile platforms, and in a statement from Mark Gerhard, we will be seeing that sooner than we thought:

“We’re working insanely hard to make sure it’s ready for Q4 this year on tablets,” says Gerhard. “I think that’s a risk in that there’s a lot of unknowns, there’s a lot of R&D going on, and there’s still some tech questions, but right now the team is laser-focused on RuneScape 3.”

You can read the rest of Gerhard’s comments at the link below.

(Source: Gamasutra)

RuneScape Introduces Instanced Boss Battles

RuneScape’s economy runs partially on the idea that high level item drops from bosses don’t just require a good amount of time in order to obtain, but that the bosses are almost entirely open world, requiring players to compete with each other for the kill, and thus the loot. While most MMOs have moved over to a system where bosses are instanced and can be fought by players without the fear of being interrupted by others, developers like Jagex have held off from making the transition, generally citing either in-game economy or a desire for competition.

In an update released today, RuneScape will see the inclusion of instanced boss battles at the God Wars Dungeon. Players will have the option when entering a boss creature’s room to choose between the non-instanced, publicly accessible monster, or to enter their own instanced version complete with the ability to invite friends or clan members. That said, freedom isn’t free, and neither is your own private boss dungeon. If you want to kill a demon general without worrying about a clan crashing your game, you’re going to have to pony up some gold coins. Costs vary between bosses, and are paid on a per hour basis.

It will be interesting to see how the cost of using the instanced dungeons will balance the likelihood that more God Wars equipment will likely be entering market circulation. Instanced vs open world bosses is a big discussion in the MMO genre, with both sides fiercely defending their preferences.

Screenshots of RuneScape Interface Alpha

Jagex has launched the RuneScape New Interface alpha, and I’ve decided to dump a few screenshots I took to show just how customizable the interface is. Players will be happy to know that interfaces like the inventory and prayer tabs no longer need to be connected, but they can be if you prefer it that way. Just about every interface can be ripped from its base, moved around, conjoined, and resized. There are more interfaces that aren’t yet available, but we will have screenshots of them when they are. Also remember that this is a work in progress and subject to changes before the official release.

Click on each image to expand it.

MMOrning Shots: HTML5 Demands

RuneScape’s HTML5 beta is well under way, and considering how different the game looks from its current implementation, I keep getting these nagging feelings that the screenshots I’m seeing are fake, even though I’m the one who took them!

Reminder: School Shooting Threats Are Illegal

There is a special level of stupid that describes a person who thinks that it’s funny to make public threats to shoot/bomb a school, whether they make them in offhand comments on online games or actually contact the school via phone/online/mail to make the threat. Eventually you have to ask yourself how many people need to be arrested and charged with making a threat before the other idiots get the clue and keep their unique sense of humor private.

I don’t know when that will happen, but I do know that 18-year old Thomas Frongillo of North Oxford has likely ruined his chances at a decent career. According to Telegram, Frongillo was arrested after he allegedly made the comment “I’m shooting up my school tomorrow” on the online game RuneScape. The incident was reported to Jagex by players, who presumably used Frongillo’s account information to identify him, and the evidence was sent to Oxford police, who in turn alerted the campus police. The transcript also included anti-Semitic comments and Frongillo drawing a swastika in-game.

Frongillo has been arrested and charged with threatening to commit a crime and threatening a bombing or hijacking. The kicker in this story? Frongillo is in the police academy studying criminal justice. According to Frongillo’s defense attorney, the comment was “a harmless jest,” and was not meant to be taken seriously.

What is it about RuneScape and real world violence?

(Source: Telegram)

RuneScape 3 Beta Program Detailed

Jagex’s upcoming overhaul to RuneScape, also known as RuneScape 3, will be coming to all players later this summer. Before then, however, players are being invited to test out the new system in order to find any bugs or offer feedback to improve features before they go live. In preparation, Jagex has unveiled some details for how the beta will work, in a post on the main website. While gold and silver premier club members will receive guaranteed access, members will need to register for a chance to get into the beta. While the number will start out small and open up gradually, the announcement does state that all members will have a chance to try out the new game before it goes live.

3rd April: Registration for the RuneScape 3 Beta Programme is opened to members.
10th April: Registration closes.
17th April: HTML5 beta begins.
24th April: New interface alpha begins.

The HTML 5 beta begins in just about three weeks. As with Evolution of Combat, we will be doing impression pieces once the beta goes live.

(Source: RuneScape)

Jagex Unveils RuneScape 3

We’ve known about a next generation RuneScape for quite a while now. What we know so far is that RuneScape 3 will be a continuation of RuneScape 2, where the current game will cease to exist and players (and their characters) will be fully transferred to the new system. RuneScape 3 will also bring with it better graphics, powered by HTML5 and a fully orchestrated soundtrack.

We will have more details about RuneScape 3 as Jagex hands them out.

(spoiler alert)

With the recent release of The World Wakes, Jagex released a quest to set up where the future of RuneScape will head. Guthix is dead and his edicts banishing the gods from Gielinor have been destroyed. Followers of all of the gods are making preparations for the return of their deity, and undoubtedly Jagex’s MMO is about to plunge into a planet-shattering war.

Jagex Decrees: Gambling Illegal In RuneScape

The word of God has spoken. RuneScape has been updated today with a strange set of new fixes to various items. The Easter ring now only turns one color, flowers planted by players now grow in one single color, the seal of approval emote now only displays one animation, and the classic cape no longer varies between animations. Why the sudden lack of random play? Jagex has finally put their foot down, issuing an official notice to players running gambling rings: You will no longer be tolerated.

Jagex has added a new bullet point to RuneScape’s rules list:

You must not advertise, organize, promote or participate in player-run games of chance, where game money or items are staked on the outcome of a random activity.

Players caught running gambling rings will be met with mutes and possible permanent bans. As with the bot busting update, the fight against gambling is one that will not end with this update. Jagex will continue to monitor the game and combat other methods as they pop up.

(Source: RuneScape)

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