Other games, like Second Life, allow programmers to create whatever items they can imagine. Players in that world sell everything from appliances to furniture. And after the first item is coded ...

Rosedale hopes that a fully immersive 3D world, like the OASIS world described in a more recent cult novel (Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, 2011), will be both more appealing and easier to use than ...

Second Life is a "massively multiplayer online role playing game" (MMORPG), but one that offers users total freedom to create and interact as if they were living another life. Playing the game ...

Second Life, then, is much like Roblox - a place where users build environments and invite others to play - although it has far fewer participants. Roblox's record for concurrent players is ...