Neopets, the beloved pet-collecting game that first became a global phenomenon in 1999, has been spun off under a new independent company called World of Neopia, Inc. The Neopets team announced the move in a post on Medium, which details how the site became independently owned for the first time in over two decades. The story takes a lot of strange turns, including brief management under the Church of Scientology.
Read all about it over at Game Developer.