Jagex Games Studio, The UK’s largest independent games developer and publisher, today announced that Jon Hare has joined the company as Head of Publishing. Hare, who has extensive industry experience spanning over three decades, has been appointed to oversee publishing at Jagex, with a particular focus on further developing FunOrb.com, Jagex’s integrated gaming website targeted at time-pressed gamers.

Over the last 24 years Hare has developed more than 30 games on over 20 formats from Sinclair Spectrum to the Nintendo Wii, and he was named as one of the top 10 Britons who changed the video game industry by The Times newspaper earlier this year.