When Second Life's makers ... to force Linden Lab and PayPal to hand over records revealing the real-life identity of avatar, Catteneo. Some other interesting tidbits from the Reuters article.

The $45 SexGen animates amorous avatars in erotic positions. It is software code, written in the scripting language of Second Life, and placed in virtual furniture and other objects. Avatars click ...

If you've had avatar sex in Second Life, you probably have Stroker Serpentine of Strokerz Toys to thank. Stroker, famous for creating avatar genitals and sex animations and other complex in-world ...

The only thing novel about this case is that the item in question was a piece of furniture made entirely of computer code, and it was bought and sold by 3-D avatars in Second Life, a virtual world ...

Virtual characters, known as avatars, may compete at baccarat, poker, slots or other games. San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which operates Second Life, imposed the gambling ban last week ...

For those of you who are keen on hands-free avatar expressiveness in the virtual environment of Second Life comes a surprise third-party viewer from vr-wear.com.This beta viewer for Windows or Mac ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A startup billing itself as the Better Business Bureau for virtual worlds wants to provide a rating system for avatars — players' online representations — in "Second Life." ...

That’s the way it’s been when you create an avatar, or virtual character, in places such as Linden Labs’ Second Life. But now Weblin, a Hamburg, Germany-based startup, has figured out a way ...

Artists are creating avatars and using the game's audio-streaming features to play "live" concerts on stages made of polygons. With nearly 400,000 members, Second Life is considered by some record ...