The Carlyle Group Scoops Up RuneScape Dev Jagex By Wes Davis on January 26, 2021 Jagex, the UK development studio and game publisher most known for the world’s most popular free-to-play MMORPG, RuneScape, has announced that it has been acquired by The Carlyle Group. The American investment firm, known for its 90s and early 2000s investments in the weapons and machinations of war, shifted its focus in the mid-2000s to more freeform dabbling – in telecoms, automobile rental, streetwear, oil pipelines as well as cinema and semiconductor tech. Now, they seem to have turned their all-seeing, flaming-Eye-of-Sauron gaze to the ballooning world of gaming.