HELSINKI (Reuters) - Habbo Hotel, a hit online networking game more than a decade ago, is drawing back hundreds of thousand of players as locked-down millennials look to rediscover a childhood ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. I have a lot of fond memories from playing Habbo ...

Habbo Hotel occupies a strange place in the mind—the same dusty corner of my brain where Runescape and Miniclip reside. I played it at a time where I was still quite small and, like many memories from ...

On November 27 2020, Alastair took a step back from the screen in his Singapore home and, as he puts it, refocused himself on the real world. The 27-year-old had finally recouped the heavy losses he’d ...

Sulake is diving into the metaverse with a plan to launch a new, fully integrated web 3 Habbo server, dubbed Habbo X. That means it will create a new hotel for socializing in a world fueled by ...

"I'm Unicorn_farts and welcome to your official Habbo Intelligence Agency Training Session!" I was in a strange room filled with black couches, ebony walls and various elevators trapped behind glass ...

And then it goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like "blockchain." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a ...

Habbo Hotel, an online game beloved among young people in the 2000s, has returned. But the revival has proven so popular that new players are struggling to get into the game, because of the “huge” ...

The end of Flash was a bittersweet moment for many in the industry. Fertile ground for small creators and lucrative for a great many businesses, Adobe's decision to finally bring its 25-year run to an ...

If you were a kid who grew up using the internet in the early 2000s, there is a good chance that you heard of Habbo Hotel. Once a massively popular virtual world with millions of players, the game ...

Since a Channel 4 News investigation two months ago into the online game Habbo, lots has changed both on the site and behind the scenes. Here is what has been happening. Back in June, Channel 4 News ...

Readers of a certain vintage will file the name 'Habbo Hotel' in the same mental filing cabinet as games like Club Penguin, The Matrix Online, and that one game on Newgrounds where you fling a plump ...