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AGC: Koster Says Game Industry Dinosaur ‘Doomed’

Blogged by neoput on Thursday December 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Gamasutra - Neopets, Koster pointed out, has 150 individual Happy Meal toys in distribution at McDonald's. "Compared to that, Master Chief is an afterthought." "We are seeing a climate shift. We're hitting a wall on finances, it's not a sustainable curve. We're ...

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Blogged by neoput on Wednesday December 27th, 2006 at 6:23 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Gamasutra - French-headquartered mobile entertainment company In-Fusio, which is creating mobile titles based on the Halo franchise, as well as Age of Empires 2 , Neopets , and The Terminator titles, has announced that it has divided the company up into two ...

Latest News

Blogged by neoput on Monday December 25th, 2006 at 11:30 am in Neopets | 0 Comments »
dBusinessNews.com - MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 100 interactive properties worldwide, including Atom Entertainment, GameTrailers.com, IFILM, Neopets, Xfire, Y2M, and online, broadband ...

MTV Wants Mobility

Blogged by neoput on Thursday December 21st, 2006 at 1:36 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Motley Fool - With made-for-mobile programs such as Comedy Central's Clip Joint and Sway's Hip Hop Owner's Manual , and with such innovations as the NeoPets web-to-wireless application mentioned in the release, Viacom has a good footprint with its demographic. As new ...

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Blogged by neoput on Thursday December 21st, 2006 at 12:25 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Gamasutra - In addition, as part of the new partnership, Nexon and MTV Networks will also work to enhance MTV Network's popular online casual game property Neopets by introducing premium virtual items for purchase for customization and personalization, in ...

December >>

Blogged by neoput on Tuesday December 19th, 2006 at 4:02 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
CNET News - In fact, it reminds me more of--dare I say it--Tamagotchis or NeoPets. Participants select an avatar of a real contestant, and complete a series of "challenges" that resemble the TV show's modeling training. To mix things up a bit, a "least favorite ...

Viacom’s MTV Networks Creates MTVN Mobile Media

Blogged by neoput on Monday December 18th, 2006 at 11:13 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
PR Newswire - And Neopets introduced the first entertainment-based web-to-wireless application of its kind, letting Neopets members engage with their Neopets characters, stories and activities on their handsets just as they would online. In addition to Clayman ...

Virtual Profit

Blogged by neoput on Sunday December 17th, 2006 at 6:56 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Red Herring - ... office of Forrester Research. “Few other companies have done this to date, but the field is going to get a lot busier in the next 12 to 18 months.” Linden Labs’ Second Life (with more than 1.6 million users) and Viacom’s Neopets, which has ...

From Lips of Children, Tips to Ears of Investors

Blogged by neoput on Sunday December 17th, 2006 at 4:04 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
New York Times - Niki is not only teaching, it seems, but also learning about business. A couple of years ago, Ms. Roizen said, her daughter was looking at Neopets.com , a Web site where people play with virtual pets. “She said, ‘I don’t get their business model ...

mtvU to Acquire College Online Advertising Network

Blogged by neoput on Sunday December 17th, 2006 at 3:33 am in Neopets | 0 Comments »
MarketingVOX - Following MTVN's recent purchases of XFIRE, Gametrailers, IFILM and Neopets, this acquisition demonstrates the company's continued commitment to being a premier multi-platform media company across every screen consumers use," the company said. "This ...