The Latest Breaking News from Jagex

When your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"

Mod Kieren says "it has been awesome to see the love the crab's gotten"

GamesRadar · Aug 6, 2025

With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality

Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"

GamesRadar · Aug 4, 2025

Gold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"

"We are immensely grateful for all of the support we're being shown"

GamesRadar · Jul 21, 2025

"Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative," new RuneScape CEO reportedly said in internal meeting explaining decision to stop or shrink the MMO's Pride events

Old School RuneScape's Pride event was also scaled down to a community event

GamesRadar · Jun 11, 2025

Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'

Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

PC Gamer · Jun 11, 2025

Old School Runescape private server development is paused 'indefinitely' as Jagex says it has more important things to work on

"There are other areas of the core Old School experience that deserve more attention right now."

PC Gamer · Jun 3, 2025

Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run

Jagex has made some significant changes behind the scenes

GamesRadar · Jun 3, 2025

RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'

Jagex said the cuts won't impact ongoing development of its game.

PC Gamer · Jun 3, 2025

American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'

Taxation rates can be a surprisingly emotive topic.

PC Gamer · Jun 2, 2025

Defying the British dev behind their MMO's "casual doubling of our taxes," Old School RuneScape player recreates the Boston Tea Party: "You think the British would have learned by now"

We got 'em again, patriots

GamesRadar · May 30, 2025