Blendo Games' Brendon Chung and Riot's Laura Michet put together this free virtual pet over the course of a couple of months, using the quarantine to build a cute little world for us to play with.

Virtual fostering wasn’t the only pet tech featured at the 11th annual tech conference, which drew dozens of healthcare, business and tech experts over two days in Miami Beach.

The Vernon Hills-based subsidiary of Hasbro Inc., which is top-ranked in robotics/virtual pets sales for the first half of this year, began its onslaught with a $200 high-end robot dog called I ...

A new AR game called Peridot, which casts a virtual pet companion into the real world using your phone, arrives May 9 promising some sort of social connectivity through virtual pet ownership.

Online searches for NFT pets surged during the pandemic. The question is, are our digital furry friends here to stay as we enter the era of the Metaverse and Web 3.0, or were they just a COVID fad?

While AI-enabled virtual pets might help create meaningful connections in our increasingly digital world, they could also further normalize the replacement of real-world interactions with digital ...