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Neopets, the beloved virtual pet website that launched in 1999, announced a \u201cnew era\u201d on Monday. The Neopets Team (TNT) said that it will be launching a new \u201cunified website\u201d this week and fixing some of the old Flash games shortly after, per an extensive blog post on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The new website, which will launch on July 20th, will \u201cserve as a one stop shop for all brand announcements, links to our different games and products, a repository of Neopets articles and related links, and anything else Neopian you can think of!\u201d TNT says in the post. Neopets.com<\/a> \u201cisn\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d TNT says, but the team will be giving the site some \u201cextra care\u201d to fix up some issues with the site, \u201cincluding the Flash games.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The team is bringing back some of the games by integrating the Ruffle emulator<\/a> for the now-defunct Adobe Flash<\/a>, and more than 50 games will be brought back starting on July 25th. Over the long term, \u201cwe hope to convert many of the most beloved games to HTML5,\u201d TNT says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But you won\u2019t just have the old Neopets games to look forward to; TNT is also announcing a brand new Neopets mobile game, World of Neopets<\/em>. TNT describes it as a \u201csocial life-simulation game\u201d where you play as a Neopet, and the game is set to launch next year, according to a video<\/a>. TNT promises the game will \u201cnot be crypto-focused,\u201d which may come as a relief for fans who didn\u2019t like the brand\u2019s foray into NFTs<\/a>. TNT is also \u201ctransitioning away\u201d from its Neopets Metaverse game<\/a>, which I\u2019ll admit I didn\u2019t even know existed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe Neopets Team is, for the first time in over a decade, equipped to make meaningful changes in pursuit of a Neopian renaissance\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The blog post also outlines some of the organizational changes resulting in the new direction. Neopets used to be under the management of JumpStart Games, but JumpStart \u201chas struggled to find success for Neopets\u201d and shut down on June 30th<\/a>. However, Dominic Law, who apparently played Neopets in the early 2000s, pushed JumpStart parent company NetDragon to save Neopets ahead of the shutdown, and \u201ca management buyout deal was struck\u201d that has allowed Neopets to strike out as an independent company called World of Neopia, Inc. Law heads up the new leadership team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe Neopets Team is, for the first time in over a decade, equipped to make meaningful changes in pursuit of a Neopian renaissance,\u201d TNT says in the blog post. Moving forward, the team is promising monthly updates, regular AMAs, and a brand ambassador program \u2014 the latter of which will launch in \u201cthe next couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n