Before you ever “Liked” a single thing on Facebook, Lane Merrifield was busy building Club Penguin into a hugely popular social site for kids, which Disney snapped up for $350 million. With his new ...

NEW YORK — Lane Merrifield vividly recalls the stress his young son felt when he got his first "C" on a report card. What made it worse was learning later that the teacher had made a mistake. "His ...

Selling your company to Disney for $350 million would mark the pinnacle for most people’s career. Not so for Lane Merrifield, who started and sold Club Penguin for that amount. He was bit by the ...

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Once upon a time, Lane Merrifield was the emperor penguin. Club Penguin, the kid-safe, virtual gaming world that Merrifield co-founded in 2005 was one of the first massively multiplayer online ...

Finishing up the GamesIndustry.biz week of special content around the massively multiplayer online genre is a look at a title that's not often considered as part of the MMO stable at all - although ...

The Austin Game Developers Conference has announced that Lane Merrifield has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the event, taking place September 15-17 at the Austin Convention Center. Merrifield ...

Club Penguin founder Lane Merrifield is leaving Walt Disney Interactive two years after a reorganization put him in charge of the entertainment giant’s online virtual worlds strategy. He is being ...