Wonderbar Returns

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 9:15 PM
Pick up some purple prizes week with Wonderbar � only on Treasure Hunter! Open Treasure Hunter Chests from 00:00 UTC on 3rd May until the 23:59 UTC on 8th May to gain charges and unlock some awesome prizes. With every chest you open, the Wonderbar meter fills. Once you have reached the prize category you want, activate the Wonderbar and your next prize will be from that category or rarer. Activating the Wonderbar will also add charges to...

The Month Ahead - February 2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 10:14 PM
It's double XP time, with even more XP up for grabs than normal. There's a secret new quest, too, and a bunch of new perks for inventors and owners of skillcapes alike! Double XP Weekend The big news this month is the Double XP Weekend, which starts at midday on the 17th of February. The normal double XP madness runs until midday on Monday the 20th, but were also adding some further bonuses until the 27th of February, especially for those of you who have other plans that weekend. Every player will get an increased XP return during that following...

Welcome, New Hires!

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 6:26 PM
It's New Blood O'Clock over here at Giant Bomb, which is a really exciting time for us. This time around we're announcing two new additions to the staff. Let's start with the New York office, where Vinny's been looking for a new producer. Here's his dispatch: Give a warm welcome to Abby Russell who will be joining us over at Giant Bomb East next week. First, I’d like to thank all 1,000-plus of you that applied. It was great to see so many...

Dev Diaries | 120 Slayer

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 12:13 AM
Mods Joe, Daze and Manti discuss our plans for 120 Slayer in the latest edition of Dev Diaries. Coming with the release of Menaphos in June, it's an update which we think it's fair to say has divided opinion with you guys at home. So please take the time to watch some of our ideas for how we believe it can work, and let us know your feedback. This episode focuses on the past, present and future of Slayer 120. What did we want to do and achieve with the update? What feedback have we had so far? And how are we going to use that to inform our...

Lava Lanterns

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 12:13 AM
Lava lanterns will light your way to XP mastery from 00:00 UTC on 26th April until 23:59 UTC on 1st May � only on Treasure Hunter. Each lantern gives 75% of the regular XP a lamp of the same size would give, plus the same amount of Bonus XP on top � meaning 150% XP in total! For example, if a lamp would normally give you 10,000 XP, a lava lantern of equivalent size would give you 7,500 XP and 7,500 Bonus XP � a total of 15,000 XP. So load...

The Community Spotlight - 04/29/2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 2:25 AM
If you have yet to watch GBeast's video series on Tender Loving Care, boy are you missing out! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week. With the Summer months right around the corner and E3 2017 beckoning, the Giant Bomb community continues to turn out some amazing things worth talking about! The Giant Bomb Community Endurance...

Jagex Account Guardian Deactivates Soon

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 2:12 AM
After 15th May, the Jagex Account Guardian (JAG) will be retired, and will no longer operate on any account for which it is still activated. The RuneScape Authenticator is - and will remain - the best way to protect your RuneScape account. If you haven�t already, it�s easy to get the Authenticator up and running. Get the Authenticator today and be ready for the change. Need help? Visit the support centre. The RuneScape T...

The Community Spotlight - 02/04/2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 6:24 AM
Many Thanks to Humanity for the Banner This Week! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Once again I, @zombiepie, am absolutely honored to be your host this week as we look back on the best the Giant Bomb Community has to offer. In tradition of last week the community was active in expressing their creative side. From making games to compilation videos we have a ton of great community works...

Community Spotlight - 01/28/2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 6:24 AM
Vinny is the hero we deserve AND need! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, ZombiePie, am once again honored to be your host this week. As the first month of the already chaotic year we call 2017 comes to a close, a number of you managed to start the year off with a bang. Many of you fastidiously tackled your gaming backlogs, and others are participating in community events which...

The Month Ahead � May 2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 4:12 AM
Our video team are hard at work on a range of projects, which means that BTS is text-only this month. Please accept our apologies for this, and read on to find out what May has in store. Shattered Worlds Shattered Worlds is our major update this month: a huge new single player combat minigame with fantastic new rewards. Centuries of teleportation magics have created punctures in the Abyss, causing the fabric between shards and their locations...

Jagex Charity Initiatives 2017

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 4:12 AM
Jagex is proud of its charitable giving history, with regular internal staff fundraising, as well as record breaking community fundraising for some incredible causes. This year we'll be working alongside CPSL Mind, The Prince's Trust, and YMCA Right Here on a local, national and international level, with a target of raising �150,000 to support their programmes. Our three chosen charities all work tirelessly to support mental health awareness - something we're very passionate about. Throughout 2017 we'll be running a series of in-game and...

Community Game Of The Year 2016 Voting Results

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 10:23 AM
DOOM was GOOD. By most accounts, 2016 was a pretty darn good year for games, and that apparently even includes your own account! Late last year we opened up the voting for our Community 2016 Games of the Year, let people vote through early January, then tallied the results and, well...here we are. This year, 5,795 of our readers submitted a list of up to 10 games. Not everyone put ten games on their list, so the total number of...

Guest Column: Let's Hear It for the Game Givers

Posted by Dien Nguyen on 10:23 AM
Here's to you, the __game givers. In 1989, my grandma gave me my first __game Boy. Last week, my grandma died. By the time this goes up, I'm sure it'll have been a couple weeks. Maybe a month or two? There's a point where you look back at an event and suddenly remember it happened, even if the happening of that event affects you every day. She was a loving mother to my father. A loving surrogate mother to my mother, who lost...
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