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We spoke with Neopets CEO Dominic Law about his plans for the 25-year-old virtual pet game, and why a lot of them involve keeping the website exactly how we remember it.
Neopets, which came out in 1999, is relaunching. Its new owners hope $4 million of investment and a new "World of Neopets" game will return it to its "glory days." ...
Neopets’ Shop Wizard isn’t just nostalgic—he’s the heart of Neopia’s economy, and he is still the best way to save Neopoints.
Following a shaky few years, Neopets announced that it's under new management alongside plans to revitalize its brand. But exciting as this sounds for Neopians, fans are concerned this may not be ...
Viacom bought Neopets for $160 million near its peak in 2005, and in 2014 sold it to US edutainment company JumpStart, which was later acquired by Chinese game developer NetDragon.
In conversation with Vanity Fair, Dominic Law chats about how to revive a beloved 24-year-old online game—and how not to ruin a good thing.
At Neopets Meta, Law, who serves as CEO, is building a Web3 game based on the classic Neopets website. The game, dubbed Neopets Metaverse, will allow users to earn crypto tokens and digital items ...
Neopets was part of NetDragon’s acquisition of Jumpstart. “It was a neglected” property. Law reviewed the business plan and proposed to spin it out from NetDragon through a management buyout.
"The Neopets Team is, for the first time in over a decade, equipped to make meaningful changes in pursuit of a Neopian renaissance," the company said in its announcement Neopets Before there was ...
Neopets is reintroducing its old art — unconverted pets (UCs) — in a new change to the site. The community is mostly excited, but some hardcore players are upset.
You might think of Neopets as nothing more than an Internet-based Tamagotchi—a ‘90s-era web page that allowed users to care for pixelated penguins and dragons. But what if we told you that it ...