Runescape is finally wrapping up one of its earliest storylines, 24 years after the first quest debuted The Return to the Desert Trilogy. PC Gamer · Mar 1, 2025
Old School RuneScape gets one of 2025's first Steam review bombs after survey gauges in-game ads and price hikes: "To read this review, please upgrade to the Deluxe package" The wave of RuneScape player outrage has reached Steam GamesRadar · Jan 17, 2025
'Runescape' Players Cancel Subscriptions En Masse Following Survey Floating Idea of Various Membership Tiers Jagex sparked backlash following the release of a new player survey that floats the ideas of new subscription tiers for Runescape and Old School Runescape. Player One · Jan 17, 2025
Jagex outrages the Runescape community yet again, this time with a survey hinting at big price hikes and worse service for those who don't want to pay The survey is strictly "research," Jagex says, but Runescape players are not happy. PC Gamer · Jan 16, 2025
Two of the most loyal MMO communities grab pitchforks and cancel subscriptions after RuneScape survey mentions paying $350 a year, in-game ads, and paid player support RuneScape and Old School RuneScape players agree this ain't good GamesRadar · Jan 16, 2025
"I bought a membership before I bought a steak or had sex": MMO fan jailed for 9 years says they "thought about RuneScape every day" of their sentence because "there is no other game" like it You don't quit RuneScape, you just take breaks GamesRadar · Oct 25, 2024
RuneScape dev reveals Unreal Engine 5 survival game set in the MMO’s universe, accidentally blocks players from signing up due to Steam shenanigans The sign-up Steam ID issue has been fixed GamesRadar · Oct 15, 2024
RuneScape developer Jagex is making an open world survival game, and it's looking for testers A closed alpha test for the RuneScape survival game is on the way. PC Gamer · Oct 15, 2024
MMO dev says it's the "perfect time to grab a shower" after tearing servers down over economy-destroying potion dupe found in Old School RuneScape Jagex takes OSRS trade offline, then knocks the servers down and rolls them back GamesRadar · Oct 1, 2024
Jagex announces official Old School Runescape private servers, because the grind can always get grindier Someday, somewhere, we'll all be ironmen. PC Gamer · Sep 9, 2024
20 years of MMO history comes full circle as Old School RuneScape reveals official "community servers" that give players "full control over gameplay modifiers" The ghost of Moparscape, is that you? GamesRadar · Sep 7, 2024
Runescape is increasing its membership subscription costs, and players aren't happy: 'Inflation my a**' Runescape developer Jagex was purchased by private equity firms in February. PC Gamer · Aug 30, 2024
Runescape's latest content roadmap includes group ironman mode, a new skilling boss, and exciting advancements in woodcutting Jagex reveals its update plans through early 2025. PC Gamer · Aug 16, 2024
After burning down an iconic MMO casino, Old School RuneScape spends 2 years crafting a new anti-gambling bomb because 'Deathmatching' was a huge source of real-world trading Deathmatching is "majorly, if not always, linked to real world trading" GamesRadar · Aug 8, 2024
GamesRadar · Aug 7, 2024 Inspired by Pokemon Snap, MMO fan builds their own RuneScape Pokedex by spending 4 years tracking down over 500 players with Pokemon usernames worth billions of gold Charizard is priceless in the Pokemon TCG, and also in RuneScape
PC Gamer · Aug 2, 2024 Old School RuneScape developers left mystified as players, whipped up into a religious fervour, demand that gaming's loudest mole-rat get even louder Give me wailing or give me death.
GamesRadar · Aug 1, 2024 "Help us understand," pleads MMO dev as Old School RuneScape players vote on infamously loud monsters and decide they should be louder, actually Old School RuneScape's Nail Beasts are basically a protected species now
GamesRadar · Jul 12, 2024 Old School RuneScape devs face loot-hungry MMO players after an endgame quest spits out worse items than an easy mob so profitable it became a bot farm Back-to-back loot extremes spark confusion in OSRS
PC Gamer · Jul 12, 2024 'The repeated targeting of individual team members needs to stop': OldSchool Runescape devs firmly ask players to cool it over Tormented Demon loot tables 'The repeated targeting of individual team members needs to stop': OldSchool Runescape devs firmly ask players to cool it over Tormented Demon loot tables
GamesRadar · Jun 5, 2024 "People could've made billions": MMO legend returns from 2-year hiatus to share a game-breaking Old School RuneScape bug so dangerous even a former dev is shocked It's no Falador Massacre, but this could've been a disaster
GamesRadar · May 30, 2024 MMO dev explains why we rarely get to see games early following feedback on the first new skill in 17 years: "It doesn't look finished because it's not finished" "It doesn't come together before really close to launch"
The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2024 Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules on loot boxes Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches
PC Gamer · Feb 29, 2024 RuneScape gets not one but two tabletop adaptations on the same day I'm here for the "game-changing cakes."
PC Gamer · Feb 28, 2024 RuneScape's official Twitter account unbanned after proving that, no, the game wasn't secretly an 8-year-old child I don't even get carded when I buy booze, anymore.
PC Gamer · Feb 22, 2024 Old School RuneScape players revolt after new big money owners say bots are fine, actually, devs furiously walk it back and say they banned 7 million bots last year A quote from an anonymous source close to Jagex's new owners sent OSRS fans into overdrive.