The pixelated and long-standing social game Habbo integrated Facebook Connect into itself last month, allowing people to share information about their Habbo character between the services. This ...

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 ...

Habbo Hotel users create a character and can buy furniture Thieves have struck again in the virtual world Habbo Hotel. Finnish police are investigating up to 400 cases of theft, with some members ...

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.

Four Habbo Hotel players, aged 15 to 20, debate the future of the game after Channel 4 News revealed explicit sexual language is commonplace – and rarely moderated. Amber: “I’ve been on ...

Many spaces in Habbo, a virtual world created by Finnish developer Sulake, feel like this one. The platform is loosely modeled after a hotel, but its user-designed chat rooms span a broad set of ...

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 ...

Habbo Hotel is a social network in which members get to control an avatar and a room that they can then customise to their taste. In a statement, Mr Lafontaine said the muting of chat on the site ...

Habbo Hotel sports roughly 7.5 million unique visitors every month--roughly 2 million more than the population of Finland, where its developer, Sulake Corporation, is based.

The biggest Habbo Hotel, the American www.habbohotel.com, was launched on September 2004 already attracts 1,3 million unique users per month. Currently Sulake has more than 215 employees worldwide.

Teen chat world Habbo Hotel is going all Web 2.0, and this month is launching a set of Web-based social networking features that include a Habbo homepage. MySpace, your Finnish virtual hotelling ...

Subscribers to Habbo Hotel are known as Habbos, which are animated “avatar” representations of each real-life member. The site is currently available in 29 countries.