David Baszucki interview — How Roblox plans to outpace the growth of Minecraft
Roblox has been on a tear. It grew from 48 million monthly active users last year to more than 70 million now. And it...
Roblox raises $150 million as its user-created game world surpasses 70 million players
Roblox has raised $150 million in a new round of funding aimed at expanding the international growth of its social platform for user-generated games....
NPD: U.S. game spending up 40% in first half of 2018
U.S. consumers spent $19.5 billion on gaming in the first half of 2018, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This is up 40 percent...
Roblox expects to pay content creators $70 million this year
Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world due to its popularity with younger audiences. It is a free-to-play online experience for...
Roblox launches education initiative to get kids to code
Roblox is turning its expertise from making a blocky virtual world entertainment platform for kids and teens to education with a coding push. Roblox Education is...
Roblox launches Spanish support for game tools
Roblox’s blocky game world has grown to more than 60 million monthly active players, and what’s amazing about that is the virtual world has...
The Leisure Economy: Where we all get paid to play games
Of all the ideas at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018, I loved the notion of The Leisure Economy. This is about a utopia we...
Ready Player One film review — Not bad for a Spielberg film with a lot of new licenses
The tech, game, and virtual reality industries have a lot of hopes tied to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, which debuts on March...
Roblox draws more than 50 million players a month to game world
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...
Where teens spent their gaming money this summer
Over the summer, the video game industry may lose out a bit to theme parks and museums, movies, and device-free summer camps, but video...