Dave Perry announced, during last week’s Game Developers Conference, that the cloud-streaming game service Gaikai has gone live to public beta. The service has debuted with five PC demos for Dead Space 2, Spore, Mass Effect 2, The Sims 3, and Linden Labs’ Second Life. The network claims to be “the fastest interactive proximity network […]
Philip Rosedale, company founder of Second Life-creators Linden Labs, has announced he is stepping down from the position as interim CEO. Rosedale took the position four months prior to his announcement, which he made via a post on the Second Life blog. He will remain on the board of directors during the search for a […]
Linden Labs, the creators of the leading virtual community of Second Life, have reported that they have been “entertaining” buyout offers from Microsoft. TechEye has reported on a supposed twitter message from a Linden Labs employee stating that “A little birdie told me that Microsoft may have silently offered to buy Linden Lab this week…entertaining […]
Linden Lab, the developer of the virtual social platform Second Life has announced that despite a shrinking market, the virtual world continues to grow. In 2009, user-to-user transactions were up 65% compared to the year before, to a total of $567 million. These types of transactions between players, or ‘residents’ as they are known within […]