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Machimina artist Draxtor Despres continues to showcase his explorations within Second Life this week as he discovers the deliciously demented minds behind MadPea Games. Founded by Second Life resident Kiana Writer, MadPea brings together a collective of talented designers, storytellers, and game creators from around the world to create some of the best immersive storytelling experiences on the grid. Scripters from Holland manipulate the game mechanics with 3D modelers from the United States in real-time, while designers from Germany, France, and the U.K. help test gameplay. It is truly a global collaboration! MadPea has built a strong reputation in the community for intellectually stimulating games that combine clever puzzles, cool graphics, and unexpected surprises. Watch the video interview and meet the MadPea crew .6WVDWILHOpw Next up is Mad City, a grid-wide scavenger hunt game full of dark secrets, eerie builds, and many mysteries debuting July 7. Later this year, MadPea will debut its most ambitious game yet (as previewed in the video above).Madpea’s Kiana Writer explores Second Life. For more info on The Drax Files: World Makers, be sure to check out Drax’s website at draxtor.com. If you haven’t yet watched the rest of the series, check out the past episodes at the links below: The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 1: Kriss Lehmann The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 2: Jo Yardley The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 3: Eshi Otawara The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 4: Fantasy Faire / RFL The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 5: Engrama The Drax Files: World Makers - Episode 7: Rod Humble

Check out the Second Life Pic of the Day, "SL10B Celebration" by Isabelli Anatine.Don't forget to check out Second Life on Tumblr, Facebook and Google Plus!

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As mentioned in this post, we’re ready to transition to the same payment system as the rest of Second Life. Starting today, you’ll be able to use your stored Second Life payment methods towards Marketplace purchases. You may also still choose to pay with Linden dollars or add a new payment method. To learn more about how to use the new payment system on the Marketplace, please see the Knowledge Base or the Marketplace payment system FAQ.

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We’ve hit the final stretch of this year’s Second Life Birthday celebrations! It has been a great month full of amazing events, plenty of swag, and good times, and there is still lots of fun to be had in honor of SL10B. Thank you to everyone who has participated in celebrating a decade of Second Life - we hope you’re having a great time! Don’t forget to share some of your SL10B snapshots for a chance to win a prize in the SL10B Snapshot Contest. Snapshot contest ends June 30th - so get your entry in before the 11:59pm PT deadline! Premium members - you still have time to complete the exclusive grid hunt! There is still some time to collect your limited edition inworld-exclusive items to commemorate the occasion. Visit the SL10B Community Celebration regions and look for the vending machines to collect your bears, jackets, furnished homes, and more. Regions will close to the public on June 29th. Remember to grab your special edition items on the Marketplace before they are gone. Already more than 12,000 SL10B Bear Avatars, 5,000-plus SL10B Mesh T-shirts, nearly 3,000 SL10B Fireworks, 2,800 SL10B Old Style T-Shirts, and thousands of SL10B Resizable Baseball Caps and SL10B Party Packs have been claimed! Our co-promotion with Alienware is still ongoing, and you have until July 17th to enter for a chance to win a new Alienware 14 laptop! See contest details for eligibility, rules, and legal information. As the month comes to a close, there’s still a lot of SL10B fun to enjoy inworld, including more than 80 listings in the SL10B Destination Guide Category. Here are just a few of the entries to check out this week: The Tightrope of Our Affection Welcome to Blue Tsuki's SLB10 art installation: The Tightrope of our Affection. This installation is an elegant immersive visual experience culminating in a self-referential meditation. Come see this celebration of virtual world installation art. Visit in Second Life Your Second Life Evolution Over 50 avatars share their evolution from the beginning of their second lives to today. Enjoy Your Second Life Evolution, built by Harper Beresford of A Passion for Virtual Fashion at http://slfashionpassion.wordpress.com. Visit in Second Life Burn2-Conception Burn2 celebrates 10 years of Second Life be looking at the unique role Burning Man had during its conception. See artist renderings of Burning Man's 10 principles, live music and lots of fireside chats. The principles were crafted not to dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community's ethos and culture as its organically developed from inception. Visit in Second Life

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To help celebrate Second Life’s tenth birthday, we’re running a co-promotion with Alienware , the pioneer in specialty high-performance PC gaming systems! From now until July 17, 2013, Second Life users can enter to win a brand new Alienware 14 laptop! For contest details and to enter today, visit here. Note: this contest is limited to Second Life users in the US; for full contest rules and legal information, visit the link above.

In honor of Second Life's tenth anniversary, we've released an infographic with some fun facts and stats about the virtual world over its history and today. You can check it out below, or over in the Press Release section of LindenLab.com.

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Linden Lab is excited to announce the release of the Materials Viewer! This Viewer will allow content creators to build objects using normal and specular maps and will allow users to view the effects of this new feature set. The end result is photorealistic textured objects inworld, such as the SL10B Bear Avatar, which will look even better with this Viewer. We’ve prepared to demonstrate the effect of Materials inworld and show builders how to add normal and specular maps to their creations.keFfqiDqnJg In order to view Materials, you will need to have a Viewer that supports this feature and have Advanced Lighting Model checked under your graphics options. Not all systems will support this option; please see the Materials FAQ for more information on whether or not it is supported on your system. Additional documentation, including case studies, can be found on the Good Building Practices wiki and the Content Creators Guide. We’d like to extend our thanks to developers from Exodus, Firestorm, and Catznip for their contributions to this feature. We are very excited about the result!

Next week the Second Life Marketplace will be changing the way you pay for your Marketplace purchases. The Marketplace will begin using the same payment system as the rest of Second Life. In addition to providing a more consistent experience for our customers, this will allow shoppers to leverage the broader set of payment options. Do I need to do anything to prepare for this change? No, you do not. We will be failing any old orders that have not completed in preparation for the switch over, so you may see a refund appear from a stuck order over the next week prior to the release. NOTE: all carts will be emptied during this release, so please save items as favorites if you would like to save links to the items in your cart. Do I need to do any complicated set-up? No, if you plan to use Linden dollars as a payment method, the main change will be the layout of the payment submission page. The system will automatically deduct the amount of your purchase from your Linden dollar balance. If you would like to use an alternate payment method, and it is not already stored as billing information on your Second Life account, you will need to enter this information during the purchase process. What else is different? For our international users, more international payment options are supported. In addition, payment information will be automatically stored for future purchases by our payment service providers. Residents can easily remove stored payment information by removing it from their billing information on secondlife.com. Is this a new system? This system has been in use in Second Life for almost 2 years; we are now introducing it to the Marketplace. Will anything look different in my transaction history? Currency Linden will replace Commerce Linden as the escrow account for Linden dollar purchases. Those using a credit card or PayPal will also see a L$ transfer from Dollar Linden. Note that Commerce Linden will still appear on your transaction history for Product Listing Enhancement Subscription payments for the time being. What if I have a problem? Please submit a Support ticket. All issues related to billing are fully supported by Customer Support and will be addressed with appropriate priority. Edited June 21, 2013 to add comment about cart expiration.

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It’s hard to believe that we’re halfway through the month already - but we’re still in full party mode for Second Life’s 10th Birthday. To start - there is an all new party pack available on the Marketplace, chock full of great celebration items including tasty treats, party favors and a bottle of the celebratory beverage of your choice. It’s free and only available until the end of the month - so get yours now. Here is a quicklist of the other items available on the Marketplace. Get your goods before the month’s end - then they will be gone for good. SL10B Fireworks - (NEW) SL10B Mesh T Shirts (Female and Male) SL10B Bear Avatar - made using the new materials feature. Learn more about materials and get the Materials Beta Viewer now. SL10B Old Style T Shirts (Female and Male) SL10B Baseball Caps (Updated with resize option now) Starting today - Premium members can enjoy a grid-wide hunt with exclusives prizes. Not a Premium member but want to participate? It’s not too late - sign up for a Premium account, and you can join the hunt right away. Magellan Linden has uncovered an evil scheme by mad Doctor Talpa, to build some form of mind-control machines and take over the world. Magellan is busy building a machine to counter this scheme, but in the meantime YOU are needed to gather materials and components -- and to destroy any of Talpa's machines you can find. Get started now! There’s more fun to come this month, so remember to stay tuned and watch our Facebook and Twitter feeds for late-breaking details about limited items that will be available inworld at the user-driven SL10B Community Celebration soon. These items will be collectable, so get ready to claim yours fast!

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The Second Life 10th Birthday celebrations kicked off with a bang last week - and there is plenty more to come. To highlight just a few things that have been going on - here is your guide to ensure you get the maximum benefit of everything SL10B. On the Marketplace we launched some SL10B exclusive items to commemorate the occasion. If you haven’t yet had a chance to get in on the fun, here are some things you may want to check out: SL10B Mesh T Shirts (Female and Male) SL10B Bear Avatar - made using the new materials feature. Learn more about materials and get the Materials Beta Viewer now. SL10B Old Style T Shirts (Female and Male) SL10B Baseball Caps (Updated with resize option now) Already, nearly 7,500 Bear Avatars have been claimed on the Marketplace, and we’ve started to see some great snapshots being shared. Here are just a few that have been featured as Second Life Pics of the Day this week. Keep ‘em coming! We love it! “SL10 Bear Coffee" , photo by Roudoudou Hirons "This year linden bear, tell me I am a cutie!" , photo by Isanelli Anatine. "Teddy Bear Picnic" , photo by Serena Snowfield. Take your own Bear Avatar or other celebration snapshots and submit them the SL10B Snapshot Contest for a chance to win a homestead prize! Submission have started to come in for the SL10B Category of the Destination Guide - for example check out SL10B By Us - an intersim event celebrating Second Life’s 10th Birthday. SL10B By Us SL10B by Us is an intersim event for the 10th birthday of Second Life. Each day brings new ways to party: DJ's, live performances, shows, readings and much more. You'll also find loads of freebies, a hunt, even information for newbees. It opens June 9th, visit http://potpourrimarkets.wix.com/sl10b for more information. Visit in Second Life You can submit your events for consideration to this category and look out for more community events. There is more in store for the rest of the month - including the upcoming Premium members grid hunt, more limited special items, and the SL10B Community Celebration event that kicks off later this month, so continue to watch this space for the latest!

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Check out the Second Life Pic of the Day, "SL10 Bear Coffee" , photo by Roudoudou Hirons Don't forget to check out Second Life on Tumblr, Facebook and Google Plus!