Roblox: all the news about the popular social and gaming platform

Roblox is a massive app — as of September 2023, Roblox says it has more than 65 million daily active users — and it’s becoming an increasingly interesting platform to watch amid growing competition from social and metaverse platforms like Epic Games’ Fortnite and Meta’s Horizon Worlds.

While Roblox has traditionally been associated as a platform for kids, the company has done a lot of work as of late to make it more appealing to older audiences. The platform now allows developers to make experiences that are exclusively accessible to users that are 17 and over, for example, and is introducing its own spin on video chat. It even has ambitions to be a place where adults can meet and date.

The company is also investing heavily into generative AI tools to help creators make experiences more easily, including a new Roblox Assistant AI chatbot.

Here’s all of our coverage of Roblox.

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Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group

Some Robux casinos have shut down.

Find your next favorite song… on Roblox?

Roblox tries to skirt app store fees by making Robux worth more on other platforms

Roblox will restrict kids under 13 from chatting outside of games

Roblox is banning kids from ‘social hangout’ spaces

Roblox is making changes for pre-teen users after reports that it failed to protect children

Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research

Roblox’s CEO on getting to 1 billion users

Roblox will start sharing more revenue with creators

Ikea will pay 10 Roblox players to roleplay as employees in its virtual store

Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is ‘a gift’

Roblox heads to Washington

Roblox releases real-time AI chat translator

Roblox has a new music-themed metaverse experience, too.

Roblox’s chatbot assistant for developers is available now in beta.

You can now buy subscriptions in Roblox experiences that offer them.

Roblox is launching its take on video calls.

Roblox is still popular — and still growing.

Roblox is taking less money from subscriptions, but for a limited time.

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Roblox says employees must return to office because the metaverse still isn’t good enough

Roblox is now available on PlayStation.

The CEO of Bumble says that the metaverse is “kind of contrary to everything I believe in in terms of getting humans to look each other in the eye.”

I asked David Baszucki about the potential of interoperability between different virtual worlds platforms.

Roblox hasn’t given up on China.

Roblox is rolling out in-experience subscriptions, but you can’t buy them yet

Roblox is finally coming to PlayStation

Roblox is going to let creators that make assets and tools keep nearly all of their sales

Roblox is putting its own spin on video chat

Roblox’s new AI chatbot will help you build virtual worlds

Roblox is about to let users sell custom-made avatar bodies and heads

Roblox makes an in-Roblox career center that’s all about Roblox

Roblox is aiming for Westworld-like ease of design with generative AI tools

Roblox on Quest VR headsets has gotten ‘well over’ 1 million downloads

Roblox is now available to try on Meta Quest VR headsets

Data breach exposes personal information of 4,000 Roblox developers

Roblox is going to let developers offer subscriptions in their experiences

Roblox is coming to Meta’s Quest VR headsets

Roblox will allow exclusive experiences for people 17 and over

Roblox goes to college

Roblox really wants you to know that it isn’t just for kids

Roblox creators can now make and sell limited-run avatar gear

Fortnite and Roblox are dueling for the future of user-built games

Roblox is working on generative AI tools

Roblox’s new Creator Hub could make things a lot easier for developers

How are these fake Roblox and Ohio governor Twitter accounts still up?

Roblox and Parsons School of Design are creating a digital fashion course

Anti-social media lawsuits are coming for Roblox and Discord

Walmart launches ‘metaverse’ experience in Roblox to sell toys to children

Roblox is ready to grow up

Roblox’s new ‘oof’ sound is a big oof

Gucci built a persistent town inside of Roblox

Spotify brings music-themed islands to Roblox

Roblox’s Game Fund games don’t look like most Roblox titles

Roblox is hiring a PlayStation engineer

Roblox shuts down Chinese mobile app to work on a new version

Roblox sues YouTuber for temporarily shutting down conference with fake terrorist threat

Roblox is back online after an outage that lasted three days

Roblox was down all weekend, and not because of Chipotle

Roblox is negotiating with music publishers after settling a copyright lawsuit

Roblox is getting voice chat, starting first with ‘Spatial Voice’

The game makers and artists pushing Roblox to its limits

Roblox, explained

Roblox signs music partnership with Sony

Stranger Things’ Starcourt Mall comes to Roblox

Music publishers sue Roblox for letting users upload pirated songs

You can now explore a surreal Gucci garden inside Roblox

Apple said Roblox developers don’t make games, and now Roblox agrees

Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content

Gucci designed virtual sneakers for hypebeasts in Roblox and VRChat

YouTube hit Ryan’s World comes to Roblox

Roblox is hosting a Ready Player Two treasure hunt inside its own virtual universe

Roblox goes public so that it can build a bigger metaverse

Lil Nas X’s Roblox concert was attended 33 million times

Roblox has big plans for virtual music events

Over half of US kids are playing Roblox, and it’s about to host Fortnite-esque virtual parties too