Then Club Penguin took off in a way the eponymous birds can't, and in 2007, Mickey Mouse maker Disney swooped in, clutching (with white gloves) an acquisition pot of $350 million.

Disney's first major extension of Club Penguin since buying the hugely successful kids virtual world for up to $700 million last year turns out to be a satisfying, kid-friendly point-and-click ...

In August 2007, the Walt Disney Company shelled out up to $700 million ($350 in cash and up to another $350 million in bonuses for targets set two years out) for Club Penguin, the massive ...

Lance Priebe, the creator of Club Penguin, was asked on Twitter if he ever regretted selling the game to Disney, which marked its future demise. “No regrets,” he wrote in a Tweet.

Rather than being a space designed for all generations of Club Penguin player, it is a curated space to look as it did for those who were kids in the early 2000s – now all grown up. (The creators also ...

City of London police have arrested three people for running an unofficial version of Disney's game Club Penguin. Police, acting on the wishes of Disney, took down the website, which claimed to ...