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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 -
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.
| March 24, 2013 -
Presenting The Winners of the Egg and Face Design Contests
A few weeks ago we launched several fan art contests, where we asked our artistically inclined users to submit egg textures for the upcoming and wildly popular ROBLOX Egg Hunt, and users to create their own ROBLOX faces–the prize being a 2,500 Robux
| March 22, 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 -
Physics Performance Demo: Domino Stress Test
As you may recall, we recently published an in-depth article about how we’ve sped up ROBLOX’s physics by 2-4x as a result of modeling collisions using impulses rather than springs.
| March 20, 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 -
The 2013 ROBLOX Egg Hunt Approaches!
Every year we work to make our annual Egg Hunt bigger and more creative than the year before. This year, we’re pulling out all the stops, debuting a massive custom-created level with 20+ different eggs, each of which has different attributes
| March 18, 2013 -
Weekly ROBLOX Roundup: March 17th, 2013
Every week, we’re busy telling the stories behind our platform, our technology and our place in the gaming and technology industries.
| March 17, 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 -
Six Awesome ROBLOX Places You’ve Never Seen Before
Every time I page through the creations of ROBLOX users, I find something I have to photograph, add to my favorites or somehow etch into memory. It speaks not only to the volume of content, but the quality.
| March 13, 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 -
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
| March 11, 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.
| March 11, 2013