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. Now it’s in a...
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...
The DeanBeat: Metaverses that aren’t really metaverses
Another week, another round of crazy acquisitions and metaverse hype in the game industry. While I’m very proud of the 30 or so sessions...
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...
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...
A $25 million grant will help Stanford Libraries preserve Silicon Valley Archives
The famous tech figures of Silicon Valley should meet Henry Lowood, because he can help them clean out their garages. As curator of the...
How game developers can figure out what they’re passionate about
NBCUniversal, Intel, Microsoft, and Unity are engaged in a developer contest dubbed the Universal GameDev Challenge, in which the companies asked indie game developers to...