From War of Legends to Runescape…

<p>David Solari&comma; previously a member of Codemasters staff&comma; has moved to the makers of the popular MMORPG <em>Runescape<&sol;em>&comma; Jagex Ltd&period; <em>Runescape<&sol;em> was made by a student in his room&comma; but eventually made way for Jagex to become an immensely successful company that has since made millions from it&&num;8217&semi;s subscribers&period; Jagex is obviously a very prestigious milestone in ones career&comma; and a great company to work for&comma; particularly if you&&num;8217&semi;re moving from Codemasters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard had nothing but praise for David following announcement of his big move&comma; saying<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;<strong>David’s leadership&comma; online experience&comma; gravitas and passion for games will help fortify an already successful team&period; On a personal note&comma; David is an all round great guy and a perfect match for Jagex DNA<&sol;strong>&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Solari worked on <em>Lord of the Rings Online<&sol;em> and is eagerly looking forward to a new challenge with Jagex&period; He has not made it explicitly clear why he made such a move&semi; whether a new game is underway and such is all very much confidential&comma; of course&comma; but we will let you to your own deductions as to why he made the jump&period; He certainly has plenty of online gaming experience for Jagex to tap into&comma; what with them being the developers of Runescape&comma; and smaller games on the later developed Funorb&comma; which seems to have died down a little over the last few years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Codemasters sometimes seems to be a bigger&comma; more professional company than Jagex&comma; as the latter seems to focus on low end graphics and browser based games&period; Codemasters makes games that are played worldwide on several consoles&comma; so it could be said that the decision to move to a &&num;8220&semi;lower end&&num;8221&semi; company is a bit rash by those not close to the deal&period; Gerhard and other involved parties&comma; however&comma; seem to be pleased to have him on board&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;02&sol;06220530&sol;Jagex-jpeg&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11500" title&equals;"Print" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;02&sol;06220530&sol;Jagex-jpeg-300x91&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"91" &sol;><&sol;a><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;02&sol;David-solari-of-codemasters-moves-to-jagex&period;png"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a>Further information can be found on the following <a title&equals;"Read more on War of Legends and Runescape maker gets a big name" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;spong&period;com&sol;article&sol;26422&sol;War-Of-Legends-and-Runescape-Maker-Gets-a-Big-Name" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">page<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><strong>Like <a title&equals;"Like on BagoGames on Facebook&excl;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;pages&sol;BagoGames&sol;159779927418064&quest;ref&equals;ts" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">BagoGames on Facebook<&sol;a> and <a title&equals;"Follow BagoGames on Twitter&excl;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;&sol;BagoGames" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Follow us on Twitter<&sol;a> for further updates&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;