Runefest a Big Success, Highlights Revealed

Jagex has announced that this year's RuneFest was a resounding success with thousands of RuneScape fans in attendance. During the convention, new information was revealed including a new RuneScape questline written by the games founders, Paul & Andrew Gower; new content is incoming for Old School; and the first closed beta for the TCG tie-in, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, will be coming soon.

Away from the thoroughfares and stages of the venue, the wider RuneScape community experienced the exhilaration of the day via a range of social media and live streaming platforms. Content on the day reached far and wide via Periscope, Twitch, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter. The live stream enjoyed more than 234,000 total plays during the course of the event, while around 3,100 tweets were posted using the #RuneFest hashtag with more than 11.7m impressions. Approximately 3,000 people tuned in to watch the backstage and roaming Periscope stream.

Read more about RuneFest on the RuneScape site.