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Roblox user-generated world moves from blocky terrain to smooth 3D

The next time you log into gaming virtual world Roblox, you may find your experience a little less … blocky.

Roblox, the Lego-like virtual world with blocky landscapes, is adding an option today for its 5 million monthly active players to roam a world with smooth 3D terrain. The new terrain is a remarkable change for a company that started out with a distinct children’s snap-together-style of art. Roblox is transforming itself to a more realistic, more adult form of art, allowing it to potentially grow up with its users and enable them to eventually build triple A-quality user-generated games.

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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.