Millennials were raised by the internet. Now their internet parents are gone. When I was 9 and first ventured online in 2005, the internet was my playhouse. Every evening after school, I would jump ...

How do social networking sites measure up on standards such as privacy, age barriers and staff that responds to complaints? Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children's media organization, came up with ...

When I found out that a hacker leaked millions of Webkinz usernames and passwords earlier this week, somehow, I wasn’t surprised. If there was ever a time for something like this to happen, it should ...

Want green skin and purple hair? No problem — if you’re exploring Nickelodeon’s recently launched virtual world, Nicktropolis. Prefer to waddle? Try Club Penguin, where you take the form of the ...

If your kid’s obsessed with Webkinz and Club Penguin but you can’t get them to do their chores, you may want to take a look at a new entrant into the virtual worlds scene called Handipoints. Founder ...

Online communities for children — like Webkinz, Club Penguin and Whyville — get the parental stamp of approval by closely monitoring their users and trying to keep out grown-ups with predatory ...

Move over, Club Penguin. Pudgy Penguins, the NFT-linked toys that waddled into Walmart earlier this year, are marching into a new industry: online gaming. They'll be chilling in "Pudgy World" – an ...