SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Linden Lab®, the makers of Second Life® and other shared creative spaces, today announced the ‘genesis release’ of a new product called Patterns TM. Patterns is a new ...

Having virtual sex in Second Life isn't what it used to be. The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it's hard to know ...

Inhabitants of Second Life, the virtual world run by Linden Lab, will soon have new options to customize how they see the world. The first will be the ability to filter adult content, Linden Lab said ...

Linden Lab has acquired game development studio LittleTextPeople, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not released. Linden Lab is best known for the virtual world Second Life.

Linden Lab, creator of the online virtual world Second Life, said Wednesday it was laying off 30 percent of its staff. Linden Lab did not reveal how many people it was letting go as part of what it ...

When Linden Lab chooses to shake things up, it doesn't do it by half-measures. Easter Monday saw an announcement by Linden Lab that they were introducing a new Second Life logo program, and changing ...

For a brief period the whole world seemed to be fascinated with Second Life. In 2006 and 2007, Linden Lab's online society was the recipient, and perhaps the victim, of intense media scrutiny. The ...

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Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, has acquired game development studio LittleTextPeople. The acquisition will provide Linden Lab with the talent and technology to support the launch of ...

In a profound affirmation of community commitment, Linden Lab has released the source code of its Second Life Viewer under the open-source GPL license. The Viewer, which enables denizens of Linden’s ...