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 ...

Virtual pet website Neopets is planning a comeback. Launched in 1999 by British developers, the site let users care for cartoon pets, chat and play games. But after Viacom bought it, for $160m (£ ...

At Club Penguin, I adopted colorful pets called puffles and purchased kitsch furniture for my virtual igloo. In the Neopets haven of Neopia, I visited the money tree to collect items others had ...