Runescape has introduced the second part of the Spirit of Summer questline. The quest requires fairly high Hitpoints and Woodcutting levels and the rewards are very interesting.

A few days ago, the browser based MMORPG Runescape joined the Kongregate game collector. Runescape has been listed as a Kongragate Featured Game during the last weekend, and in less than one week has already been favorited by more than 1.000 players and played more than 140.000 times.

1UP has published an article about the recently announced Runescape graphical improvements. They are also showing two screenshots, which help getting an idea on how the final result will be.

With a recent update, many famous Runescape NPCs received some graphical improvements. This latest devlog explains which ones.

After some improvements to the audio system released last week, the Runescape dev team informed us that they had to turn off some of the newest features because of an uninspected increased on the servers load.

In an attempt to fight gold selling and other RTM trades, Runescape has changed the policy regarding in-game trades. Starting from now, it will not be possible anymore to do any in game unbalanced trade.
The official explanation follows.

Here is the second part of the article describing how summoning will work in Runescape, once it will be released in January 2008. The first part is available here .

With this article, the Runescape developers announces the release of a new game system, scheduled for release on January 2008, which will allow players to summon creatures to fight at their side.

Player Vs player combat in Runescape begins a new era with the newest 64 players arena. Players already begin to fight each other with high hopes of winning 64 times the amount of their original stakes.

The Runescape official website has a new development diary from the Audio Team. The article introduces the people working on Runescape musics and sound effects and describes the tools they use for their job.