RuneFest
13 announcements from RuneFest 2025 including Golden Gnome Awards winners, new OSRS skill, Project Zanaris, Havenhythe Expansion and more
RuneFest 2025, the world’s biggest celebration of RuneScape, returned to the Birmingham NEC last weekend with plenty of announcements, […]
March 4, 2025
Top 10+ UK esports events happening in 2025
Photo by Jonathon Yau Through all of esports ups and downs in 2024, it was one of the best […]
December 25, 2024
RuneFest 2025 rearranged dates, venue and ticket info confirmed as Jagex makes more tickets available for standalone event
RuneScape developer Jagex said this afternoon it’s delighted to confirm that RuneFest 2025 will take place at the […]
July 3, 2024
Some creditors start receiving Insomnia Gaming Festival payments, RuneFest delayed to 2025
Some of those owed for their work with Insomnia Gaming Festival have started to receive payments this week. […]
June 20, 2024
Subsidiary company behind Insomnia Gaming Festival enters liquidation, with £8m owed
Supernova Events and Esports Limited, the company trading as Player1 Events which ran Insomnia Gaming Festival, has entered […]
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May 25, 2024
Life after LAN: What’s next after the Insomnia news? Former Insomnia managers set up LANcraft Events, emails sent to creators confirm Player1 Events is no more, community Discord set up
Two former managers at Insomnia Gaming Festival are setting up their own venture, known as LANcraft Events Ltd. […]
May 16, 2024
Mass redundancies at Player1 Events leave future of Insomnia Gaming Festival uncertain
Staff at Player1 Events, the UK-based organiser of Insomnia Gaming Festival, have been made redundant. Several sources close […]
May 14, 2024
RuneFest 2024 heads to Insomnia 73: Runescape festival returns to UK after five years – all info revealed so far around dates, tickets and location (update – event delayed to 2025)
Update: The fate of RuneFest 2024 is uncertain after redundancies were made at Player1 Events, the organisers of […]
March 1, 2024
Top 10+ UK esports events coming up in 2024
This year has flown by, and with Christmas now upon us, we’d like to wish all of those […]
December 25, 2023
Gross Gore banned by Twitch again after Runefest controversy
What’s he done now… The amount of times I’ve typed the words ‘UK League of Legends streamer Ali […]
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October 17, 2018
Gross Gore vows never to talk to women at events again following harassment accusations around Runefest
Update (January 2nd 2025): Gross Gore says him and Skiddler have made up over the situation, in this […]
October 9, 2018Old School RuneScape Deadman Invitational winner disqualified following Jagex investigation
The winner of the $20,000 Old School RuneScape Deadman Autumn Invitational has been disqualified. 5PLUS50K12, who finished first […]
September 28, 2017
$20,000 Deadman Invitational winner crowned at RuneFest 2017 in London amidst controversy
UPDATE (September 28th 2017): The Old School RuneScape Deadman Invitational winner has been disqualified following an investigation. […]
September 25, 2017