Hi Players!

Hope that you've had a great month. To kick off the news, Spring has come and Winter has ended in the Pixpet Realm. Meaning to say that the Vinteralgk has now gone away to hibernate til the next Winter arrives.

To welcome Spring, a new legendary has been discovered, the Vernavre has been sighted in the PixRealm.



EDIT: One of the colors for Venrevre has been altered from Cyan -> Aqua. We apologize for the mix up. The same change has also affected Vivid Oecko.

Not to be totally overshadowed by the Vernavre, you may also find Vivid Cappukins out in adventure mode as well (finally! oh my gosh.)
Both Cappukin & Vivid Cappukin are available for use in adventure mode.

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As some of you might have noticed, version 1 of the Match 3 game is now live. You can now play Baluna's Biscuits over on the arcade page. There's still more that we want to revisit with this game but that will have to come with updates as we did not want you to have to wait much longer for it. We hope you enjoy it!



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In less exciting news, for those of you not using ad blockers you might have noticed that the ads have suddenly changed positions and what not. We have officially moved away from our previous ad partner so you should not be seeing anymore of those unsavory ahem/gambling ads that kept sneaking through the cracks despite not being approved on our settings, if you do, please send in a bug report so that we can relay it to our new partner. Thank you for your understanding.

We made arrangements with the new partner so that the ads will continue to be placed in unobstructive areas of the site so as not to take away your gaming experience, just please understand that we do need them on the site to help us keep adding content as well (plus we have sort of a quota to hit so ad placement and such is subjective as we trial the initial month going forward with this new partnership).

Patreon users will continue to have the option to display or not display ads, do let us know if there is any issue.

Edit : Based on feedback, we are discussing with the partner on how to handle the bottom ad placement. Please bear with us as we figure out the best placements for the site. Thank you.

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The design contest for feb has ended and winners will be announced in a week or two after the judges have time to make their decisions.
Thank you for your wonderful submissions. :D

Thank you all for your continued support of PixPet and see you next news update!

~The PixPet Team

Hi Players!

Wishing you all a Happy Valentines & Singles Day!

We are releasing Vivid Oecko into the wild. I heard it likes cold places.

Hi Players!

Thank you for welcoming yet another new year with us. Thank you for the support especially through the later half of last year when things were a little rough for us, we've truly appreciated your kind words and patience especially when we've had to keep delaying content. Hopefully this year things go a little more smoothly for us. (boy we have so much on adventure to catch up on.)


Next up is an update on the long awaited match 3 game. After the change of hands in coders for this, we've significantly changed up the layout so this will appear more cleanly on your mobile browsers as well. We've introduced 3 difficulties in which you'll be collecting requested cookies in random orders and numbers depend on difficulty with a limited amount of moves.

We are in the midst of adding a time attack mode, so that you can choose whichever mode suits your fancy for your daily plays.

We do believe that this game does have more potential in the long run to perhaps add a map/levels in maybe a version 2 or something like that. What are your thoughts on this? Would this interest you guys?

That said, once we finish up with the time attack mode implementation and final testing, the game will be ready for launch, so we're looking at sometime in Feb. The rewards will be PC at launch, since we're still in the middle of setting up the arcade shop, eventually the newer games and this one will convert over to arcade coins for you to exchange for arcade items or convert to PC/food etc.



As with the recent release of the Vinteralgk, we decided to introduce it originally as a Christmas Legendary pet, but due to the time strain on players trying to get it, we switched it up into being our first Seasonal Pet. Going forward (this will not affect existing pixpets), we plan to introduce more seasonal pets that come out for a few months during the year alongside regular pixpets that are year round or Holiday specific. We've already got some new designs in the pipeline and are quite excited for their seasonal release eventually when it's finally their time.




As Feb is the 'season of love', we decided to kick it off with a new contest (sorry that it's taken awhile to launch another.) The theme is:

Design Furniture Set OR Wall & Flooring Set inspired by Love &/or Friendship
Link to Contest : Here

You do not need to be good at art, just have fun expressing yourself and your idea.
You do not need to pixelate your designs as this is merely conceptual.
Do describe your idea clearly if you're unable to draw it out to give us a better idea of what you're trying to convey. Try simple doodles.

-Anyone can participate (except judges kek)
-Nothing lewd please
-No entering traced, stolen art or AI generated art (please use your own efforts)
-All art must be created by yourself, no using F2U or P2U bases
-Entries will be vetted for plagiarism during judging phase, will be disqualified if found to be doing so.
-No use of downloaded textures or clipart
-Scoring is not weighted on how well you draw, your ideas is where it's at.
-You may submit more than 1 design, but will only be awarded for 1 if you win.
-Disclaimer: Please be aware that by entering the contest that the final product is property of pixpet.net. You will however be credited for your creation should you win.

Entries submitted to the wrong place will not be valid.
Late entries wil not be entertained.

Contest Submission ends
28th Feb, 2023. 11:59 PM, EST. (UTC-5)

Judging Period will be inhouse amongst staff for about a week at most.
Winners will be announced in news & contacted privately as well to arrange for shipping.

With regards to the past contest items, we are deliberating for a way to introduce them to the site so that they remain somewhat exclusive, especially to contest winners, but yet attainable eventually by players at a later date.


Prizes are as follows (All winners will receive a badge)
Winner : Items + 150 PPT + 15,000 PC (value $30)
Runner Up : Items + 70 PPT + 5,000 PC (value $20)
3rd Place: Items + 30 PPT + 2,500PC (value $15)

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We are aware that players were having problems registering via gmail, that has been addressed.

We have also encountered some old inactive accounts suddenly becoming bot/spammers. Please make sure not to share your email/username & passwords. If you do so, please do so at your own risk. We are implementing a measure whereby we will be able to forcibly reset and request for the user to change up their password via your email in the event your account is suspected of being affected by such malicious activity so that you can recover your account should the need arise. This is currently in testing and will be pushed to live once we make sure it works properly since we take your account security very seriously.

Thank you for sitting through this long start of the year post. Thank you for your continued support :D more to come soon!

~The Pixpet Crew