For the uninitiated, cat cafés have been around since 1998, when the first cat-themed café opened in Taiwan–a country that, unsurprisingly, is also home to a popular cat village. Despite its origins ...

The game, by Hit-Point, is simple. Incredibly simple. You attract animated cats to your virtual yard by purchasing toys (rubber ball, scratching log, zebra grass gadget), snacks (thrifty bitz, tuna, ...

Walk into any store, restaurant or even doctor’s office, and customers are most likely to find a Maneki Neko beckoning for attention. Company President Robert Iida believes that the lucky cat’s ...

Please stop abandoning your old fake pets in deference to new fake pets. It is very heartless, and only a slight variation from the plot of Toy Story, which certainly moved you to emotion at some ...

Recently, there’s been a lot of critically important talk about the convergence of sexism and violence in the videogaming world. For those of us whose brains need a break from attempting to break down ...

SEATTLE — It’s the purrfect place for cat lovers. Neko Cat Cafe opened on Capitol Hill earlier this month providing small bites and drinks for patrons while in the company of cats that are eligible ...

Publisher Flyhigh Works and Banchou Tactics developer Secret Character have announced Neko Odyssey, a cat photography adventure game coming to PC via Steam in 2024. Here is an overview of the game, ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Speaking via video conference from Hit-Point’s base city of Kyoto, Neko Atsume project manager Yutaka ...

Both of the Hatsune Miku figures feature the Vocaloid figure in outfits inspired by Maneki Neko lucky cats seen in Japan. Each one features three face plates. The original one has a standard one, one ...

A pair of lesbian cats were almost separated until a cat cafe stepped in and reunited the sweet couple just in time for them to celebrate Pride Month together. The NEKO Cat Cafe in Seattle shared the ...

People had been telling me my entire life that being an adult is hard. I brushed off these warnings. I assumed I'd be okay, despite studying something basically useless in the job market. I thought ...

The Internet has been devoted to cats since its very beginning. We’ve had cat focused forums, cat-themed flash games, art and even a website dedicated to pictures of cats in sinks, aptly named Cats in ...