Bloxy Awards 2020
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Roblox’s in-game Bloxy Awards draw 600,000 spectators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roblox announced that its seventh annual Bloxy Awards drew more than 4 million concurrent players during the peak of the show, and 600,000 watched it. The event ceremony, staged inside Roblox’s game world, raised $100,000 for nonprofits.

The San Mateo, California-based Roblox enables young programmers to make a living creating games within the blocky world of Roblox. And its annual Bloxy Awards is aimed at rewarding player creators.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.