Jagex

What Jagex is

Jagex is a game developer and publisher based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and it brands itself as the RuneScape company. Its own history timeline dates the studio's founding to 2000, when Andrew Gower started it in Cambridge with the aim of building an online fantasy game that could run in a web browser and evolve alongside its players. RuneScape's free-to-play version launched in January 2001, and the studio says the universe has welcomed over 300 million accounts since launch.

The studio's public pages list its games as RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and they set out its corporate structure through an about section covering who the company is and its social impact work. The registered address shown in the site footer is Ground Floor, One Granta, Granta Park, Cambridge, England, CB21 6DP. Jagex handles development and publishing for its own titles in-house.

The RuneScape games

Jagex's history page sets out the sequence of releases that built the company. RuneScape launched in 2001, major technical upgrades and RuneScape 2 arrived between 2004 and 2007, RuneScape 3 launched in 2012, and Old School RuneScape followed in 2013, which the studio says came about directly in response to player demand and community voting. The company frames itself as having more than 25 years of building worlds shaped by their communities.

Publishing for the studio's titles sits with Jagex itself. The RuneScape: Dragonwilds Steam store entry lists Jagex Ltd as developer and publisher, with H2 Interactive Co., Ltd. and Graph named as additional publishers, and a release date of September 15, 2026. The game's official site is hosted under the runescape.com domain, and the broader Jagex site links to RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and Dragonwilds as separate products.

The company site also carries a careers section, an environmental, social and governance page and legal documents covering its terms, privacy policy and gender pay gap reporting, all linked from the main navigation. Those pages, together with the news feed that lists press releases with publication dates, make the Jagex site the studio's own channel for both game announcements and company information.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds

Jagex announced RuneScape: Dragonwilds on March 31, 2025 as an open-world survival crafting game set on the continent of Ashenfall, built on Unreal Engine 5 and launching into Early Access in spring 2025. The studio described it as a co-operative survival crafting game for solo players or teams of up to four, presented as a separate experience from the established RuneScape MMORPG and built on the same fantasy setting.

The studio's September 15, 2026 release announcement says it launched the game that day on PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S, the first time a RuneScape title has launched on any console platform in its 25-year history, and that the game sold more than 1.5 million copies during an 18-month period in Steam Early Access. A Jagex statement published on August 19, 2026 confirmed the game would be available day one with Xbox Game Pass, and the launch announcement adds PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium availability.

Games

• 8Realms
• Ace of Spades
• Block N Load
• Chronicle: RuneScape Legends
• Old School RuneScape
• RuneScape
• RuneScape: Dragonwilds
• Stellar Dawn
• Transformers Universe

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