Scum
GameBy Gamepires · Released Jun 17, 2025
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RuneScape CEO: We Want to Be Bigger than World of Warcraft
Jagex is undergoing a strategic transformation to establish the RuneScape franchise as the preeminent force in the massively multiplayer online gaming sector, with the explicit objective of surpassing World of Warcraft in global market share.
- Jagex has rebranded itself as "Jagex: The RuneScape Company," selling off its non-RuneScape game, Scum, and its developer, Gamepires, to focus exclusively on the RuneScape franchise.
- The company's strategy, RS25, has three main goals: stabilize the declining RuneScape MMO, heavily invest in the successful Old School RuneScape, and fully release the survival game RuneScape: Dragonwilds.
- Old School RuneScape has broken multiple records across major metrics in the last 12 months, experiencing an "unbelievable kind of heater."
The Game BusinessJul 2026
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Video Game Extremism: Digital Hives of Scum and Villainy
This analysis explores the intersection of digital gaming spaces and political extremism, specifically focusing on how online platforms may facilitate radicalization.
- Gaming platforms are increasingly scrutinized as social hubs where extremist ideologies can normalize through peer-to-peer bonding rather than top-down recruitment.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has allocated a $700,000 grant to investigate the exploitation of gaming environments by extremist groups.
- German authorities report a 27 percent increase in politically motivated right-wing criminal offenses over the last 14 years, driving heightened government oversight of digital social spaces.
SuperJoostSep 2022
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