You’re sitting there, minding your own business, when the thought hits you. You wait for it to pass, but it lingers, forcing its way to the front of your mind. You try desperately to ignore it, but ...

Do you remember the old Flash-powered website Neopets? Because I do. In the early 2000s, as a kid, I logged on to see my virtual pets, play minigames, and participate in an all-encompassing story that ...

It might be time to log in to your Neopets account again. It might be time to log in to your Neopets account again. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in ...

For years, Neopets has had a black-market pet problem. Neopets themselves aren’t just digital pets — they’re also currency. When the website, popularized in the 2000s, got a revamp in 2007, its ...

Following a management buyout, Neopets dumped its NFT project and started restoring dead Flash games. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The heyday of Neopets has long gone. But Dominic Law, CEO of Neopets Meta, thinks the two decades-old virtual pet game has all the right ingredients to become a Web3 title. From a base in Hong Kong, ...

Neopets has been trying to get back its once substantial userbase over the past year by fixing and relaunching its classic games, holding timely events and releasing new features meant to get people ...

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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 ...

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 ...