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Old School RuneScape highlights PvP boot camp and LAN party, talks up its origins and writing
This week in Old School RuneScape appears to be primarily fixated on its partnered livestreamers, so if you’re looking for some more update-centric news, you kinda clicked on the wrong link. Otherwise, here are some influencer-led community events that might be of interest to you. First is the PvP...
Old School RuneScape began when a dev 'found the 2007 server in their desk drawer:' 13 years later, it's setting subscriber records for the long-lived MMO
Back in June, RuneScape studio Jagex held its first live event outside the UK (and its biggest to date): Deadman All Stars, an Old School RuneScape PvP tournament. I had the chance to talk to OSRS creative director Kieren Charles at the event, and he explained his philosophy on running the 13...
Old School RuneScape began when a dev 'found the 2007 server in their desk drawer:' 13 years later, it's setting subscriber records for the long-lived MMO
OSRS is a resounding MMO success story.
Old School Runescape Officially Recognizes Player Who Reached Level 99 Fishing Catching Only Shrimp and Anchovies
The official Old School Runescape X account has responded after a player managed to get their Fishing skill up to level 99 catching only shrimp and anchovies. Fishing is an integral part of the Old School Runescape experience. There are several different tools players can use to catch fish or other...
Old School Runescape Officially Recognizes Player Who Reached Level 99 Fishing Catching Only Shrimp and Anchovies
The official Old School Runescape X account has responded after a player managed to get their Fishing skill up to level 99 catching only shrimp and anchovies.
Old School RuneScape continues to refine Agility as one player achieves 99 Fishing with shrimp
Yes, that headline really only has the binding tie of “things that can only happen within Old School RuneScape,” but then that’s sort of the big deal with sandbox MMORPGs, right? And besides, we’re not just in the business of only reporting on updates; sometimes you have to accept the whimsy and...
Someone Just Maxed Out Their Fishing In Old School RuneScape Using Only The Starter Net: ‘Nothing Matters’
'I will miss catching those lil water bugs'
Old School RuneScape details plans for a Bronzeman mode and the long-awaited arrival of doggies
They might be low-poly, but they are still very friend-shaped. They’re the dogs of Old School RuneScape, one of the two upcoming arrivals that Jagex talked up in its first monthly digest series about features in progress. And, yes, we’re just as astonished as you are that multiple dog pets weren’t...
In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible
cross the ages, theorists and theologians have wrestled with an irreconcilable question: Is free will an inherent capacity of the human soul, or a misapprehension of things predetermined and divine? Is it a unique function of the human animal, or an illusory quirk of cognition bound by circumstance...
In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible
"This is getting entirely too much attention."
One of the first Animal Crossing speedrunners spent 4,300 hours catching shrimp in an MMO "just to see if I could," and he might even "do it again"
A notorious MMO fisherman just finished a 4,300-hour grind that saw him spend over two years catching shrimp in Old School Runescape, and he says "I'd do it again." 12 years ago, Animal Crossing speedrun pioneer and AGDQ cameo commentator Carter 'Bosby' Larson was trading world records with a...
Old School RuneScape player hits 99 fishing by just catching shrimp and anchovies. Jagex approves
After spending two years and three months catching solely anchovies and shrimp, Old School RuneScape player 'Bosby' has hit 99 fishing. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Old School RuneScape player hits 99 fishing by just catching shrimp and anchovies. Jagex approves
Old School RuneScape player hits 99 fishing by just catching shrimp and anchovies. Jagex approves
After spending two years and three months catching solely anchovies and shrimp, Old School RuneScape player 'Bosby' has hit 99 fishing.
One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'
The creator of KSP talks us through what's on his PC, from Full Throttle to Old School Runescape.
Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'
Old School RuneScape's had a content update this week—Wyrmscraig, an island designed by a player that has a new quest, a repeatable boss, a cool sword, and so on. All the neat little additions you'd expect out of a patch. But some players have been running into an obstacle. Or rather, getting stuck...
Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'
Helmp, I need somebody, helmp, not just anybody.
Old School RuneScape Launches a New Area Called Wyrmscraig
Old School RuneScape dropped a new update today, giving players a fresh new area to explore in the form of the island of Wyrmscraig
Old School RuneScape gives you new island Wyrmscraig to explore, including a new boss battle and activity
Today is a big day for RuneScapers (I assume that's what you're all called) because not only is there a new area, but it comes from one of your own. Wyrmscraig, a new, dangerous island, is now available to explore. The cool detail, though, is that it was created by OSRS player ScreteMonge or Gnome,...
RuneScape begins reveals for its next league as Old School RuneScape introduces Wyrmscraig
That’s right, dear reader, every single RuneScape game ever has something big going down, so we’ll skip the preamble and hop right into it. We’ll begin with the modern MMORPG and its newest upcoming league, which has started off the first set of its slated daily reveals in the run-up to its Monday,...
Jagex’s Old School RuneScape unveils new region Wyrmscraig
Jagex, the RuneScape company, said that the mists have lifted across the treacherous waters of the Unquiet Ocean to reveal a perilous new area for players to forge new adventures: Wyrmscraig. Created by OSRS player and creator ScreteMonge (also known as Gnome), his concept was selected from over...
Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and AQ3D confirm that Jimothy pets are incoming
Earlier we reported on how MMORPG developers and fans had collectively caught Jimothy fever, which would be a weird sentence to read in any other timeline; the viral racoon from Seattle, Washington, had encouraged the likes of Old School RuneScape and World of Warcraft to mock-up pet versions of...
A PvP holy war has broken out in the Wilderness of Old School RuneScape
Sometimes when an MMO dev claims its PvP sandbox will encourage “emergent gameplay,” it’s shorthand for “we don’t feel like designing anything.” In the case of Old School RuneScape, however, that emergent interaction has indeed sprung forth in the form of an in-game holy war between the followers...
"What makes an MMO truly special": Hundreds of Old School RuneScape players have become monks and started a holy war after a pilgrimage got out of control
I blinked and a holy war kicked off. Over the weekend, a battalion of Old School RuneScape players gathered together to spread the good word of Saradomin, a pillar of the game's theology, on a pilgrimage through the MMO's PvP-enabled Wilderness zone. One thing led to another, and, well, a second...
"What makes an MMO truly special": Hundreds of Old School RuneScape players have become monks and started a holy war after a pilgrimage got out of control
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