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Roblox draws more than 50 million players a month to game world

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roblox has built a Lego-like virtual world where kids and teens can create their own games, and now it is drawing more than 50 million players every month on PCs, consoles, and mobile devices.

Those players come to play games that are created by other players, who can make money from the number of times their games are played. In 2017, 11 million titles were produced by two million creators on Roblox, said Craig Donato, chief business officer at Roblox, in an interview with GamesBeat. Roblox had a million creators just a year earlier.

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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.