RuneScape: Dragonwilds is here after years of work.

Jagex takes survival game RuneScape: Dragonwilds into Steam early access

Jagex announced that its open world survival game RuneScape: Dragonwilds is now available in early access on Steam.

Jon Bellamy, who took over as CEO of Runescape publisher Jagex on March 4, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game is a big bet on a new type of gameplay for RuneScape fans.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.