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.

You might want to sit down: The original Club Penguin game is going away. The developers of the Disney-owned online game confirmed Tuesday it will shut down the 11-year-old Club Penguin on March ...

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 ...

Club Penguin’s kid-friendly aesthetic has often lent itself to surreal shenanigans, like in November, when one server hosted a brief protest against then-President-elect Donald Trump.

Students Flock to ‘Club Penguin’ Amid Coronavirus Quarantine. From proms and graduations to group therapy sessions, high school and college students across the globe are logging onto private ...

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.

Animated penguins navigating post-war trauma proves a recipe for sublime cinema in the hands of Penguin's Memory: Shiawase Monogatari.

Disney has ordered unauthorised copies of its Club Penguin game to close, after the BBC found children were being exposed to explicit messages. Visits to fan-run Club Penguin Online surged during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Club Penguin’s Sept. 27 notice about the shutdown said it will be providing players “with all the necessary information in the coming weeks via in-game messages and updates here on Island News.” ...

Club Penguin (CBS) - Break out the Advil, parents! The popular children's gaming site Club Penguin was offline and re-directing to a parked domain site all morning.