Indie game developer Mawges and publisher RedDeer Games are giving Nintendo Switch players a digital pet with Wildagotchi: Virtual Pet. This game is a direct throwback to the Tamagotchi pets of old as ...

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Virtual pets are, by their very nature, a very hands-off experience. You typically can’t actually touch or interact with one. In the case of a Tamagotchi, for example, it comes down to pushing buttons ...

Neopets revolutionized the online virtual pet sphere when it first launched in 1999, and since then, its various iterations ...

This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Instagram’s new virtual pet features are now ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

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Windup Minds is a newly announced XR studio which has raised a $1.6 million seed investment for immersive experiences focused on virtual pets and companions. The quartet announced this week it raised ...

Windup Minds raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding for a game studio focused on virtual pet games in virtual reality and mixed reality. The Seattle and Los Angeles company will make games for a ...

Miami Beach’s annual tech conference went to the dogs. No, not Pitbull, though he was at eMerge Americas 2025, too. More like cute, wagging-tail pups. Rescue dogs like 3-year-old Sultan walked around ...