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Neopets, the iconic virtual pet website that dominated a substantial number of mid-2000s childhoods, is staging yet another comeback - this time "free from corporate baggage." Neopets launched way back in 1999, and has continued to live under a wide array of investors and corporate sponsors ever since. In 2014, JumpStart Games bought Neopets, and in 2017, a Chinese company called NetDragon bought JumpStart. On June 30, 2023, JumpStart shut down, but there's now been a deal to unify the Neopets leadership and development teams and spin off a separate company to oversee the game. That new company is called...
