Jagex Limited is a British video game developer and publisher based at the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England.
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21 Facts About Jagex
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Jagex formally acquired the Jagex name from Andrew Gower in 2001.
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Jagex became a member of the United Kingdom's game developer trade body, TIGA, on 15 April 2009.
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Jagex has developed extraordinarily popular games and is at the leading edge in terms of online safety and security.
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Jagex received an investment from Insight Venture Partners in October 2005, before which the company had been self-funded.
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In July 2016 Jagex was purchased by Hongtou, a Chinese investment company, which was acquired by Zhongji Holdings, which later changed its name to Fukong Interactive Entertainment.
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Jagex remained under Hongtou within Fukong's structure until it was sold to Macarthur Fortune Holding, a US-based asset management company, in April 2020 for.
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Since 2004 Jagex has made donations to a number of national and international charities, as well as running charity auctions for signed merchandise.
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In July 2014, Jagex helped raise awareness about the illegal poaching of black and white rhinos by adding rhinoceros pets and trivia questions to RuneScape.
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In November 2014, Jagex reopened the Well of Goodwill to support 3 new charities: AbleGamers, DonateGames, and YoungMinds.
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On 17 July 2017, Jagex announced the development of a mobile version of Old School RuneScape.
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On 16 September 2015 Jagex released DarkScape, a separate version of RuneScape which featured open-world player versus player combat.
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On 5 March 2015, Jagex announced that Block N Load would be released for PC on 30 April 2015.
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On 11 October 2012 Jagex announced it was developing a racing game on Facebook called Carnage Racing.
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Jagex announced Chronicle: RuneScape Legends at RuneFest 2014 for launch in the coming year.
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The game was shut down on 22 December 2014, and on 29 January 2015 Jagex announced that the game would not come back online due to unresolved security issues.
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On 1 July 2021, Jagex announced it was publishing a loot shooter called Space Punks, developed by games studio Flying Wild Hog.
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On 21 October 2021, Jagex announced it was publishing a Runescape-inspired idle game called Melvor Idle.
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Jagex released its first mobile game, Bouncedown, for the iPhone and iPod Touch on 3 December 2009, followed by StarCannon on 15 April 2010, Miner Disturbance on 8 June 2010, and Undercroft on 23 September 2010.
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On 14 March 2011, Jagex announced a partnership with Hasbro to create a Transfomers Universe MMO based on the Transformers intellectual property that was due to launch in North America, Latin America, Europe, New Zealand and Australia in 2013.
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The game was slated for a 2011 launch, but in March 2012 Jagex announced that development had been paused in favour of Transformers Universe and RuneScape.
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