Katherine Brice
Deputy Editor, GamesIndustry.biz

11/11/2009 @ 08:00

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Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard

Last month Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard confirmed his company had ceased development of MechScape, the much-awaited browser-based follow up to its eternally popular RuneScape. The game just wasn't one his team ended up being proud of, he said. And as a company comprised first-and-foremost of gamers, the loss of several years' toil and tens of millions of pounds was the preferable option to releasing a game it wasn't fully committed to.

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