Old School Runescape just made new players' lives much easier without immediately killing the spirit of the classic MMO

If you're struggling to get your Gen-Z friends to try OSRS, a recent wave of new player improvements might (but probably ...
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Inside the Deep-Sea Mining Debate

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...
The New York Times

What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...
New Scientist

Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...
Adventure Gamers

If you’re looking for Pirate Shipwrecks in OSRS here’s where to find them

Sailing in OSRS has injected some exploration and mystery into the game that long time players have been looking for. You’re able to roam the high seas in search of new enemies to take on and loot to ...
Adventure Gamers

If you’re looking to start Sailing in OSRS here’s what you need to do

The brand new Sailing skill has docked in OSRS, with everyone trying to race to level 99 to reacquire those Max Capes, and leapfrog places up the leaderboards. Like any new content added to OSRS, you ...
The Conversation

The path to responsible mining in northern Ontario starts with Indigenous consent

Tamara Krawchenko consults for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and was a contributing author to the Mining Regions and Cities in Northern Ontario, Canada study. She is a ...
Polygon

RuneScape is about to do something most games wouldn't dare

Fantasy MMO RuneScape developer Jagex sure seems to trust its player base. The company announced Wednesday that it will soon remove a mechanic that has been in the game since 2014, and critically, ...
GameSpot

RuneScape's Future May Be Radically Reshaped After Fan Vote

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The daily Treasure Hunter has been a part of RuneScape since 2014, and some of the game's players openly resent it as a pay-to-win feature that ...
IGN

RuneScape Dev Really, Really Wants Its Players to Vote in Favor of Removing the Game's Least Popular Microtransactions

RuneScape developer Jagex is considering removing one of the game's least popular, yet most pervasive, layers of microtransactions. But instead of just making the decision itself, it's letting its ...
SpaceNews

The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...
USA Today

Asteroid Mining, a Gold Rush in Space

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...