RuneScape
RuneScape is the main line of Jagex's fantasy world, Gielinor, the version that kept moving forward after the old one was preserved separately. It's a game about skills as much as swords: you can spend an evening chopping trees, brewing potions or running a farm and count it as progress. There are quests with a long-running story, boss fights for groups, and it runs on a computer or a phone.
Game publisher: Jagex.
Our RuneScape coverage
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RuneScape Reignited: announced for 2 December, now under reviewA fresh-start RuneScape character with its own economy and membership, announced for 2 December. Three days on, RuneScape said sorry and is rethinking it.
Earlier, now past
- RuneFest 2026 is at the Birmingham NEC on 3 and 4 October, and the Chicago show is a different event
- Havenhythe Part II comes out 28 September, and RuneScape's own preview gives no launch time
- RuneScape Vulkan beta opens 7 September on Windows: how to switch it on, and what it should fix
- RuneScape starts enforcing a 300 furniture limit in player houses again
What is coming up
- Last day to use banked cash-shop items before they are removed, revised or kept Jagex's post of 24 September 2026 says the final date to use up leftover MTX items, the paid microtransaction items that came through Treasure Hunter, is November 23rd, 2026, before the game update that day. Two events come first: a DoubleXP event in November, which it calls the best chance to use them, then a shorter send-off event, the Well of Restoration, where eligible items can be donated for GP, the in-game gold. Items marked for removal that are not donated are then turned into GP at a reduced rate. Exact timings come in the November Month Ahead post. Checked 8 Oct 2026 · Source: Jagex · all of our calendar dates
Recent, and what happened
- to 4 Oct 2026 RuneFest 2026 September's Month Ahead post of 3 September 2026 calls RuneFest the biggest in-person RuneScape event of the year and says it will take place on October 3 and 4. The post names no venue and no ticket detail. Checked 11 Oct 2026 · Source: Jagex · all of our calendar dates
- Havenhythe Part II September's Month Ahead post of 3 September 2026 says Havenhythe Part II launches on September 28, after the remaining weeks of Leagues II: EQUILIBRIUM. The same post names two other September updates: an Engine Update carrying the Vulkan beta, and a Deep Clean update it places in week four without giving a day. Checked 11 Oct 2026 · Source: Jagex · all of our calendar dates
- Vulkan renderer open beta, Windows The post dates a voluntary open beta on Windows to Monday 7 September and calls it the first step of a staggered rollout, with Android next and OSX/iOS after it, neither dated. It is signed by the RuneTek team and names no studio. Vulkan is switched on from the Graphics Mode setting in the startup options menu; OpenGL stays as the fallback renderer once Vulkan becomes the default. Checked 11 Oct 2026 · Source: Jagex · all of our calendar dates
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RuneScape is read from the publisher's own pages, with the date and the source on every line.