Jagex are all over cyber crime. So much so that their efforts have led to the arrest of a UK resident in connection with the theft of accounts in their hugely popular free-to-play MMO, RuneScape. Working alongside the cyber fuzz, they aim to bring down account phishing criminals one arrest at a time.
Fair play I say. While one arrest may not sound like much, it's a step in the right direction for publishers of online video games. There is literally nothing worse than investing your entire waking existence into an MMO only for some two-bit cyber crime lord to come along and nick your account.
According to a statement from the cyber fuzz (ok the PCeU) earlier today: "A 23 year-old man was arrested in Avon and Somerset on the morning of Tuesday 24th November by officers from Police Central e-Crime Unit, following an allegation that a number of RuneScape accounts had been hacked and misappropriated."
Seriously?! There are surely better things to do in Somerset in than hack people's RuneScape accounts? Surely a better use of your hacking skills would be to hack their bank account, or their PayPal account, or acquire their actual address and go round there to burgle them while they're out? Commit a real crime man from Avon and Somerset! What a ponce.
Anyway, credit to Jagex for taking action. And credit to the cyber fuzz just for existing. I wonder if they look anything like the precogs from Minority Report?
First RuneScape account phishers, tomorrow Minority Report. The future's bright, the future's precog.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
An arrest over him stealing free MMO accounts? Really?
Don't the cops have better things to do?
Doesn't HE have better things to do??
Absolutely. It's big business in the MMO world and seriously harms in-game economies. It's great that the UK police are starting to take this seriously because while it may not seem like a big deal, it is tantamout to fraud. If they can steal accounts then they would have access to other personal information I guess. It's about nipping it in the bud before they move on to more serious identity theft crimes.
But yeah @HolyOrangeCows, the dude really should get a life!