Old School RuneScape devs are facing loot-hungry MMO players after an endgame quest yields worse items than an easy mob, so profitable it became a bot farm

Old School RuneScape

I’ve had my eye on a fascinating microcosm of MMO economics for a while now, and it’s officially reached boiling point in the Old School RuneScape community. The recent release of two new enemies – one of which spits out millions of gold despite being easy to kill and the other stuck behind an endgame … Read more

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields fossil of Denisovan

Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. Group of Dongju Zhang (Lanzhou University) For over a century, we’ve had the opportunity to study Neanderthals: their bones, the stuff they left behind, their spread across Eurasia. When we finally sequenced their genome and discovered that we shared a genetic legacy … Read more