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Jagex Ltd. (or Jagex Software) is a United Kingdom-based producer of Java-based online computer games. According to developer Paul Gower, Jagex stands for Jews and Gays Extreme. The company is best-known for its MMORPG, RuneScape.

History

The name Jagex Software has been in use since at least 1999, and was originally described as a "small software company based in England specialise in producing top-quality Java-games for webpages". According to Companies House, Meaujo (492) Limited was incorporated on 28 April 2000 and changed its name to Jagex Limited on 27 June 2000.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). In 2006, founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth £32 million. On "The Rich List 2007" Andrew and Paul are under claims to be worth £106 million ($190 million USD). Andrew Gower is also known for his varieties of Java games. Jagex received an investment from Insight Venture Partners in October of 2005. The company had been self-funded before this investment. RuneScape has since been translated into a German open beta version, which was released on 7 March 2007. Jagex was ranked 59th on the list of The Best 100 Companies to work for by the Sunday Times.

Future development

Jagex have stated on their website that they "intend to become a significant online operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide" by developing new games using their own technologies.

Operation

Jagex has grown since the founding of the company in 2001. They currently have offices in Cambridge and London. The company had been recruiting heavily in 2006 and has over 300 employees, grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame, and Customer Relations teams.

They maintain about 140 servers for RuneScape in various locations around the United States, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. One of the most recent additions to the servers was the addition of the two German beta servers, which are currently the only servers for a non-English version of the game. Their current major focus is on translating RuneScape into non-English markets, primarily working on a recently-released German translation of the game.

Beyond RuneScape

While most of the work by Jagex staff now deals with RuneScape, they still maintain a few other games that one can play online at their website. These games are:

• Meltdown
• Vertigo
• Flea Circus
• Gold Mine
• Monkey Puzzle

These games can be accessed at the company's website.

Other games have often been hinted at by the company's employees during interviews, however so far there have been no official statements regarding future products.

References

1. Companies House WebCHeck. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
2. "What is Jagex?". RuneScape knowledge base. Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
3. "Jagex Software". Jagex. 1999-11-29. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
4. "Rich List 2006". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
5. "RuneScape Developers Jagex Ltd. Secure Investment from Insight Venture Partners". GamingBlog. 28 October, 2005. Retrieved 2007-01-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
6. ^ Jagex (14 February, 2007). "RuneScape: German Language Beta Launch". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
7. Jagex (2007-02-07). "Hereinspaziert - die Open Beta der deutschen Version beginnt!" (in German). Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
8. "The Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
9. "Jagex Company History". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
10. "Jagex front page games index". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.

External links

• Jagex's games index site
• Jagex corporate homepage
• Members of the Jagex Team
• RuneScape homepage

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