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Roblox made a couple of announcements at its Roblox Developer Conference earlier this month that are reverberating around the game industry — and yet went unnoticed beyond the borders of user-generated content.
First, the company said it has enabled standalone, offline play for its games on Roblox, which previously could only run as online connected titles on the Roblox app or Roblox’s own platform.

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