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Spotlight: Juliane14 and Group ITA Recreate Rome
As soon as I spawn into City of Rome, Italia , there’s a person waiting for me in some sort of militaristic get up. The stranger walks up to me and says, “where can I take you sir?” I’ve never been called “sir” in ROBLOX before, but I ...
| March 30, 2013 -
Get a Stylishly Local ROBLOX Fedora with Your BLOXcon Pass
BLOXcon passes have been on sale for about two weeks now and in that time we’ve sold almost 50% of them across all three events. The early-afternoon Main Stage Presentation slots for BLOXcon London and New York City are already booked solid, an...
| March 28, 2013 -
Rendering Changes and Improved Performance Are Coming Soon
Next week, we’ll be releasing new rendering code that will boost performance by up to 3X, enabling more people to play games that have tens of thousands of parts. Part of the performance boost will stem from turning off bevels, which round the c...
| March 27, 2013 -
Play the One and Only ROBLOX Egg Hunt 2013 Today
Welcome to the 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt ! Are you ready for a challenge? We hope so, because collecting each and every one of these eggs will be no small feat — they all behave in very distinct (and sometimes dangerous) manners. Click here to start...
| March 26, 2013 -
Come Meet ROBLOX at GDC 2013
There’s been a buzz within the game industry — ROBLOX HQ included — over the past few days’ lead-up to Game Developers Conference 2013 , which kicked off today in San Francisco. The self-proclaimed largest and longest-running professionals...
| March 25, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 24th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| March 24, 2013 -
Beta Testing Now: Own and Trade Multiple Copies of Limited Items
We’re always looking for ways to make the ROBLOX economy more flexible and dynamic. In the past year, we’ve introduced and enhanced our trading system, added affiliate gear sales and game passes, and created a group treasury, among other thing...
| March 21, 2013 -
Spotlight: Unprecedented Place Detail With TacoConsumer
Every now and again, we like to show you some awesome places in ROBLOX you’ve probably never seen before. It’s a joy jumping into these virtual worlds, and bearing witness to stunning vistas and huge castles and…a busted up office building?...
| March 19, 2013 -
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With a Sale and New Gear
Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend! In the spirit of the holiday, we’ve created some exclusive St. Patrick’s Day gear for you, and put several of our, how should we say this, greener items on sale. You don’t have to be a leprechaun to score ...
| March 16, 2013 -
Get Your BLOXcon Pass Today!
Did you spend a long, grueling week watching our countdown clock? The hour of BLOXcon ticket sales has finally arrived! You can now purchase passes to all three events: BLOXcon Chicago (7/13), BLOXcon London (7/27) and BLOXcon New York City (8/10)...
| March 15, 2013 -
Play Nerf Battle: Double Your Blasting Target Challenge Today
ROBLOX and Nerf have teamed up to make Nerf Battle: Double Your Blasting Target Challenge! The game launched earlier this week, and has picked up some serious traffic. At the time of this writing, over 250,000 people have played it! In case you ha...
| March 15, 2013 -
Pushing ROBLOX Place Data Faster Than Ever Before
Have you noticed that you’ve been jumping into ROBLOX games quicker? That’s because our networking team has been hard at work exploring ways to make our network more stable, secure, and most importantly, fast. After a ton of experimenting, we�...
| March 14, 2013 -
Spotlight: Nexx Launches Crowd-Sourced ROBLOXReviews.com
Long time ROBLOX user Nexx recently launched ROBLOXReviews.com , a website that compiles and sorts user-based reviews of ROBLOX games. Riffing off of ROBLOXHQ.com, a legacy ROBLOX game reviews site that is no longer running, ROBLOX Reviews feat...
| March 12, 2013 -
ROBLOX: Helping Cultivate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
In late February, Code.org published a video , in which several tech-industry luminaries – from Bill Gates and Gabe Newell to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey – extol the values of being able to write code. While the video has an underlying go...
| March 11, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 10th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries. For those of you who catch up with ROBLOX over the weekend, the Weekly ROBLOX Roundup collects the best stuff t...
| March 10, 2013 -
Our Content Team Critiques Your Works in Progress
About a week ago, we asked users to submit their best and most creative places via the ROBLOX Game Design forum . We told them that the top picks of the litter would receive critiques by our very own ROBLOX developers, and we’re here to do just ...
| March 9, 2013 -
BLOXcon Is the New RGC 2013
If you’ve been around ROBLOX for a while, you might know a thing or two about our annual fan convention. First, it was the ROBLOX Rally. Then it was the ROBLOX Game Conference. For 2013, we’ve decided to debut a new name: BLOXcon! This year, ...
| March 8, 2013