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RuneScape

New, full-screen, graphically spruced-up High Detail version available as a beta to members.

UK, Cambridge, 1st July 2008 - Jagex Ltd, the UK’s largest independent games developer, today launched RuneScape High Detail, the latest version of their hugely successful massively-multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). RuneScape High Detail has been released as a beta to subscribers with the plan to offer the same functionality to free players in the future. RuneScape High Detail is a full graphics improvement, which utilizes new technology to enhance the game graphics and, for the first time, runs the game in full screen through an internet browser.

About RuneScape

RuneScape is a massively-multiplayer online game, set in a fantasy world of warring races, ravaged landscapes and sinister powers.  The game is updated twice a months with new content, quests, skills or challenges.

RuneScape remains the 2nd largest free-to-play and subscription-based MMO in the western world, with more than six million active players and over one million paying subscribers.

About Jagex Ltd

Jagex, Ltd. is an independent games developer and publisher based in Cambridge, England, with over 380 employees. With proprietary graphics compression, game engine and network communication technologies, Jagex creates online games that are enjoyed by millions of players around the world.

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Adam Tuckwell – Head of Public Relations

Jagex Ltd.

Adam.Tuckwell@Jagex.com

+44 (0)870 756 3014

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