You are here: Gaia Online has built one of the biggest online hangouts for teens over the past five years. Think of it as an online shopping mall full of kids who express themselves through cartoon-like avatars. On July 1st, it was taking the hangout one step further by revealing the details of a more elaborate, connected virtual world with its own storyline and missions.
The company's Gaia Online site already generates 3 billion monthly page views and has more than 5.9 million unique users a month. While there are a dozen different things you can do when you log into Gaia Online (like meet other teens and play casual games), the place is currently not a single, continuous world.
That's going to change in the late summer as the company rolls out its "massively multiplayer online" (MMO) game, said Craig Sherman, chief executive of the San Jose, Calif.-based company. Users have been demanding this game as the top thing they want for a couple of years.
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