Jagex

Gemstone dragons, are they all they’re cut out to be? Should you fight them? And what’s their real purpose for being in game? Also, a corporate rebranding of Jagex and excellent news for Jagex as a company!

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Hosts: Shane, Cireon, and Tanis
Duration: 1:49:39

• Gemstone Dragons | Documentary Airs 9th April
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• NXT – Please Update
• Jagex’s new look
• Jagex registers record-high profits during last financial year
• Listener Questions
• Google, Samsung, HTC, et al. agree on a license deal around Android
• YouTube TV
• Android overtakes Windows for first time in internet usage
• March SkotM Update and April SkotM: Hunter
• Informer’s March Into April
• Achievements of the Week
• Tanis’s Pick: PlayStation Now
• What have we been doing?

Our reaction to the news about the acquisition of Jagex by the Chinese, the Port Sarim rework and event, and our thoughts on voice acting!

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Hosts: Shane (@_ShaneA), Mr. Bistro, and Tyler
Duration: 1:24:55

• Jagex Investment & Acquisition
• Port Sarim Invasion | Eastern Lands Crew Miniquest
• Boat to the Arc Event
• Telos Change
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Chronicle | Morvan the Slayer Master | Now Live
• Listener Questions
• Pokemon GO is now the biggest mobile game ever, Nintendo is now worth $9b more than it was last Wednesday,  and account access concerns (which have been patched on iOS)
• Twitter has inked another livestreaming deal – this one with Bloomberg\
• Messenger Starts Testing End-to-End Encryption with Secret Conversations
• July SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week
• Tyler’s Pick: Tyler’s Pick – Star Trek Online
• What have we been doing?

The Hati wolf re-appears and is joined by his brother, thoughts on the new interface icons, and Jagex wins a landmark court case.

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Hosts: Shane and Trekkie
Duration: 1:28:28

• Hati & Sköll
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• “Staunchly British”
• Jagex Wins Against iBOT (iBOT Apology)
• Listener Questions
• Feds shutdown Megaupload.com
• SOPA protests [didn’t] damage Google search ratings
• Reinventing Textbooks with iBooks 2
• January SKOTM Update
• Achievements of The Week
• Trekkie’s Pick: STO
• What have we been doing?

Free trade and the wilderness came back in February, the bots followed shortly after. We are back to discuss bots once again with our bot expert, UDS Cap. We cover everything from how a bot works to what you can do to help with the problem.

Note: We recorded this episode before Jagex’s bot announcement on July 16.

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Hosts: Shane with special guest UDS Cap.
Duration: 1:57:18

• What’s a bot?
• What’s a real world trader?
• Which of these is the bigger problem currently?
• If in any way how is what we’re seeing different than 2007?
• Specific area or everywhere?
• Which skills are affected?
• What is Jagex doing?
• What could Jagex do?
• What can the average player do?
• What should a player not do?
• Does the economy need bots?
• Listener Questions

Full show notes can be found here.