Linden Lab has spent $1.3B building Second Life and paid $1.1B to creators (updated)
Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse....
The DeanBeat: How to make payments in the metaverse
Tilia recently spun out of Linden Lab with the backing of J.P. Morgan Payments to fuel payments for the metaverse. Unlock premium content and...
Players aren’t abandoning the lives they built around games during the pandemic
It is now common wisdom that video games were able to withstand the pandemic better than many other entertainment sectors. But analysts expected the...
Philip Rosedale’s High Fidelity cuts deal with Second Life maker Linden Lab
Maybe there is something behind the idea of the second coming of Second Life. High Fidelity has cut a deal with Linden Lab, the...
The DeanBeat: Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life?
The idea of the metaverse is getting more buzz than ever. I gave a speech on it yesterday to Sharad Devarajan’s class of MBA...
Upland lets players trade virtual property for real money using Tilia Pay
Upland is launching virtual asset trading using Second Life’s payment network, dubbed Tilia Pay. That means that you’ll be able to acquire real-world properties...
Upland blockchain game will use Linden Lab’s Tilia for virtual property transactions
Blockchain game developer Uplandme has teamed up with Linden Lab’s Tilia division to enable digital payments in the Upland virtual property trading game. The...
How Second Life improved its marketing ROI by 300%
Linden Lab was able to triple its return on investment (ROI) for marketing for the virtual world Second Life by targeting users with personalized pitches...
Linden Lab sells off Sansar to ‘streamline its focus’ on Second Life
Linden Lab has announced that it’s sold Sansar to San Francisco-based tech company, Wookey Project Corp., which has assumed all operations without service interruption...
Sansar social VR launches on HTC’s Viveport with more Ready Player One content
Sansar is a social VR platform from Linden Lab, the maker of the Second Life virtual world. And today, Sansar is now available as...