Linden Lab just released a video showing off the new tools made for Linden Realms, which SL developers will get to play with soon -- watch below:

While cool, the tools in the demo aren't news (and were discussed here last month). What is news, at least news to me, comes at around 1:10: As of March 6, there's been about 250,000 Linden Realms players, from 5,000 daily unique visitors. Presumably that's 250K players since the game quietly launched in early November '11. That's an interesting data point: