{"id":9797,"date":"2026-01-17T04:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/i-was-a-designer-for-runescape-its-comeback-reveals-how-old-games-can-be-rejuvenated\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:02:23","slug":"i-was-a-designer-for-runescape-its-comeback-reveals-how-old-games-can-be-rejuvenated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/i-was-a-designer-for-runescape-its-comeback-reveals-how-old-games-can-be-rejuvenated\/","title":{"rendered":"I was a designer for RuneScape\u2014its comeback reveals how old games can be rejuvenated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    I was a designer for RuneScape\u2014its comeback reveals how old games can be rejuvenated<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>RuneScape experienced a surge of popularity over the 2025 holiday season. While fan nostalgia for a game that is now 25 years old plays a role, the revival more clearly reflects recent changes to RuneScape&#8217;s controversial monetization\u2014changes that appear to be drawing players back.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-runescape-comeback-reveals-games-rejuvenated.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a designer for RuneScape\u2014its comeback reveals how old games can be rejuvenated RuneScape experienced a surge of popularity over the 2025 holiday season. While fan nostalgia for a game that is now 25 years old plays a role, the revival more clearly reflects recent changes to RuneScape&#8217;s controversial monetization\u2014changes that appear to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-gadgets","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}