Neopets may not look entirely different, but times are changing for the beloved and sometimes troubled create-a-pet website. For the first time in nearly two decades, Neopets is run by an independent ...

The virtual reality game, Neopets, which boomed in the 2000s, has had a resurgence. Danielle Kurtzleben explores why users some users have come back and why others never left. Sponsor Message DANIELLE ...

Those of you of a certain age will remember Neopets. Arriving with a bang in 1999 as a free-to-play virtual browser game where you look after digital pets, it exploded in popularity, spawning ...

Neopets revolutionized the online virtual pet sphere when it first launched in 1999, and since then, its various iterations have placed longtime fans in a nostalgia-fueled chokehold – and the new ...

When I was 12 or so, I remember hanging out in a corner of browser-based virtual pet game Neopets known as “Evil Things and Monster Sightings” or “EMS,” and pledging to some internet strangers that ...

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Neopets is doing away with its classic website in summer 2019. A press release from JumpStart released over the holiday week teased a new future for the online pet simulator, one that "replaces" the ...

Neopets was one of the hottest destinations on the World Wide Web of the early 2000s, but the audience for its virtual pets has been in decline for years now. Neopets itself has declined, too, admit ...