“It’s really hard to work in a room with eight cats.” That’s one of the first things owner Caitlin Unsell tells me as we sit down at a table shaped like a cat face along the pillow-lined bench seating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking via video conference from Hit-Point’s base city of Kyoto, Neko Atsume project manager Yutaka Takazaki tells me that the game’s success outside Japan took the company completely by surprise.

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 ...

All over the world, cats come with different beliefs and thoughts. Some say cats are evil and bring with them bad fortune and ill luck, while others say that they are bringers of love and fortune, and ...

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, ...

The maneki-neko goes by many names. The waving cat, the lucky cat, the beckoning cat. There are even more variations in its meaning. It’s generally believed a lifted left paw invites success in ...