Jagex

Company Type: Developer, Publisher
Founded: 1999
Number of Employees: 340
Registrartion Number: 3982706
VAT Number: 791 951 784
Parent: The Carlyle Group
Country: United Kingdom

Jagex is a developer and publisher of video games based in Cambridge Science Park, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1999 and currently has over 300 employees. Jagex is best known for developing and publishing RuneScape series, which is considered to include the world’s largest free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing games.

Previously Jagex was owned by Shanghai Hongtou Network Technology, a company within Fukong Interactive Entertainment, a Chinese games conglomerate. In April 2020, Jagex was acquired by Macarthur Fortune Holding, a US-based global management firm, for $530 million.