Neopets returns in 2023: 2000s pet game announced ‘reboot’ with new content and history

Neopets, a free pet care and mini-game website that has been around since the early 2000s, has announced that it will be doing a “reboot,” a full relaunch starting later this year in 2023. Through video – With its text also version in this link – Entitled “A New Era for Neopets”, he explained the changes that would take place in the now semi-defunct online game.

A new Neopets development and leadership team (commonly called TNT, The Neopets Team) has been hired to revive the franchise, which has fallen precipitously in popularity over the past few years. From the looks of it, this renovation will be supported by the $4 million in funding Neopets received at the beginning of the year from various investors.

Originally created by Donna Williams and Adam Powell, a married couple who started the project as a hobby, it grew in popularity through the early 2000s until it was bought by Viacom Media Group (associated with, among others, MTV, Nickelodeon, and CBS). For $160 million. Later in 2014, developer JumpStart Games bought the Neopets brand for an unspecified amount. As they explained in the official statement, this team “has struggled to bring success to the Newpets.” For example, in 2021 there is interest in bringing the game to Nintendo Switch; However, from the looks of it, the idea was later scrapped. JumpStart Games stopped working on June 30th this year.

Obviously, the website has been running at a loss for nearly a decade. In addition, he had to deal with other difficulties: the end of support for Adobe Flash Player, the application through which most of the content on the site was played, made the site very difficult to operate, and the more aggressive introduction of payment currency caused this to happen. Do not sit well with society. Thus, the new Neopets team will prioritize fixing bugs and performance issues on the website, and introducing various features requested by players.

As part of this change, World of Neopets will be launched, a social simulation mobile application in which we will live in the perspective of one of these virtual pets and will be able to interact with other users, decorate our home and much more.

The original site will continue to operate, and new features and flash games that have been ordered will be added. The new Neopets page will be posted on July 20th. Then, for the remainder of the year, new content and story will be added.