Christmas has arrived and the RuneScape community is getting involved with the festivities! You’ll be passing gifts around Gielinor and finding a new home for a stray dog, but that’s just the start!

RuneScape Advent Calendar

What’s better than chocolate? JMod messages, of course! Head on over to the forums to reveal a new message from a JMod each day in December until Christmas Day.

The Skypouncer and Blazehound arrive in Gielinor

Two faithful new companions have arrived in RuneScape this week and we’re offering you the chance to win your own to take care of! Find out more and enter the competition here!

New Ship Names Ahoy!

Following the Player-Owned Ports Rename your Ship contest we ran last week, we’ve selected a handful of winning names, which will be announced soon and added into the game in a future update.

Fansite News

Jumping straight into the Christmas spirit of giving, platinum-ranked fansite RuneZone are giving away heaps of prizes in their Ultimate Christmas Giveaway.

RuneHQ are also getting involved with the gift-giving in their huge Twelve Days of Christmas giveaway. With lots of awesome prizes including RuneCoins and membership, you won’t want to miss out!

RuneHQ’s content manager, Darkblitz, recently visited the Jagex Studio and met the team! You can read about his experience here.

Community Events

Caelestinus and a selection of RuneScape’s PMods are having a huge Christmas event in which you’ll be able to win some great prizes! To find out more and get involved head on over to their event thread on the forums.

That’s all for this week’s Community Round-Up! On behalf of all of the RuneScape Community Team, we’d like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

The RuneScape Community Team

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