This time it's US private equity giant Carlyle Group that's snapped up a majority stake in the Cambridge games studio. The Carlyle Group did not disclose the terms of RuneScape Gold this transaction, but The Daily Telegraph reported that the value of this deal is expected to be greater than the 530m (￡390m) paid for Jagex when it was acquired from its previous Chinese owners with a US holding firm in 2020.

Jagex employs more than 450 people, and is one of the greatest and most successful British gaming studios. It's best known for the dream MMO RuneScape, that has seen nearly 300 million player balances created since its launch 20 years back. 2020 saw record amounts of subscribing players, Jagex stated, over half of which are in the United States. The Carlyle Group said it will encourage Jagex"as it continues to drive growth by evolving the core RuneScape franchise via investment in R&D and improved content launch prices, in addition to launching new titles to increase its portfolio and engage with an even wider community of gamers".

Jagex manager Phil Mansell stated:"I am so proud that Jagex is teaming up with Carlyle, a prestigious investment group that believes in the capacity of Jagex, our vision for expansion, and will support us in accelerating our continuing growth plan. We'll continue to expand our game teams to create and deliver more excellent content for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. We'll continue to produce exciting adventures for our gamers, develop our global communities, construct new games to expand and further explore the RuneScape universe, lend our expertise to release third party matches out of like-minded online game developers, and also invest in the unbelievable technology and talent which powers this "

Jagex was on something of an ownership rollercoaster in the past couple of years. Eventually Jagex was marketed to US holding company, Macarthur Fortune Holding, in May 2020.

Jagex confirmed the impending Steam launch of both games now. Runescape, colloquially called Runescape 3 since it is the most modernized variant of the game, will arrive at October 14. Old School Runescape, that uses the 2007 version of the game for a foundation, will return to Steam sometime in 2021.

Runescape as most people understood it was originally published in 2001 and performed via a browser. Both matches have been on mobile stores for some time now. It is no denying that Runescape is coming to Steam as it approaches its 20th anniversary, either. "Jagex is on a mission to OSRS Buy Gold bring the RuneScape world to more players globally," says CEO Phil Mansell. "Following our games' arrival on cellular shops, we're currently expanding the access to the desktop variants. Making them available to the Steam community is a significant step in attaining this goal. We're eager to see RuneScape debut on Steam from October 14th and look ahead to Old School RuneScape's arrival next year, as we empower even more gamers to access and explore our rich and engaging living sport worlds."