The Upshot: RuneScape 3: Maybe the Peacock Knows

This is the third and final installment of the RuneScape 3 stories.  Earlier, Harold Goldberg found himself at Peckforton Castle, somewhat near Manchester, England. But what was good and what was lacking in the game itself?  BY HAROLD GOLDBERG As I stood gawking in this round, but dungeon-like environment, I spied three Jagex employees holding…

RuneScape 3: The Quest for The Skinny

In Part One, the stage was set for a look into RuneScape 3. But does a hands-on Alpha gameplay help or hinder the Jagex message? BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England   So there we were in this Game of Thrones-like locale outside of Manchester, England. In the bowels of PeckfortonCastle, I came upon a room…

The Insight: Will Gamers Flock to RuneScape 3?

BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England – Walking through the greenest of forests in Tarpoley, a rural town between Liverpool and Manchester, I pass daffodils and bees and newly unfolding ferns. I muck about the ruins of what may have been a cook house, and a singing blackbird flies out of a broken window. It’s the…