Jagex

Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) today announced it has acquired Jagex, a leading developer and publisher of video games. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and employing more than 450 people, Jagex is one of the largest and most successful British video game studios, developing and publishing video games on PC and mobile. The company is best known for its online role-playing living game franchise RuneScape, which has attr...

The situation was highlighted in the UK Parliament's recent report on immersive and addictive technologies, which includes a subsection on RuneScape. It mentions "a member of the public whose adult son built up considerable debts" of around $62,000.