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Man Arrested, Accused Of Threatening To Shoot Up His School Via…MMO

18 year-old Thomas Frongillo from Oxford, England, has been arrested and charged with “threatening to commit a crime and threatening a bombing or hijacking” after being accused of leaving hostile messages in an online game run by Jagex, the publishers of Runescape.


Fake Gun, Fake Currency, Real Jail Time Figure In Alleged Runescape Robbery

A 19-year-old US student is looking at 15 years in the slammer after allegedly putting a BB gun to the head of a classmate and demanding that 4.7 billion Runescape coins be transferred to his character, reports the New York Post.


Browser-Based MMO Runescape Boasts 200 Million Players And Counting

When you talk about MMORPGs in the West, most minds jump to World of Warcraft. And yes, with subscriber base that peaked at twelve million and still hangs out around 10 million, WoW was and is a big deal.


Runescape Is Getting A Facelift. Here’s Some Art.

Here’s something cool. Runescape, the venerable (and hideous) MMO that’s now over 10 years old, is getting a graphical overhaul later this year.


RuneScape Creators Take On Massively Multiplayer Transformers

Autobots wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons online next year, as Hasbro grants the power to create a massively multiplayer online game based on the robots in disguise to Jagex, the folks behind popular free-to-play MMO RuneScape.


Online Gaming Marriage Leads To Real-World Criminal Charges

A 54-year-old Massachusetts man is in police custody in Detroit after allegedly initiating multiple sexual encounters with his virtual bride – a 13-year-old girl he married in the online role-playing game Runescape.


My, A Lot Of People Play Runescape

Runescape tends to fly along under most people’s radars. Maybe because it’s free, maybe because it’s browser-based, maybe because of both. Doesn’t matter! Game’s still insanely popular.


Wii, 360 And…Runescape Top Yahoo! Search Queries For 2008

It’s no Google, but in the absence of Google’s stats, it’ll have to do: according to Yahoo!, the Wii, 360, PSP and even PS3 were amongst the 10 most-searched for technology items for 2008.


Runescape More Popular Than Jessica Alba

Yahoo! has published their list of the most searched terms of 2008, and popular free MMO Runescape has actually made the cut, coming in at number 5, beating out Naruto, Jessica Alba, and Lindsay Lohan.


Runescape Launches PVP Worlds

In the works for quite awhile, primitive though still wildly popular among fans free MMO Runescape has just launched PVP worlds, special PVP servers where players can fight against other players with their precious, precious items at risk. Characters are required to have a combat level of 20 to even enter a PVP world, where combat may be initiated anywhere but a few choice safe areas such as banks, a fact that is sure to make banks very crowded indeed.


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