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Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [ 45 ] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [ 51 ] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser.
Dress to Impress is a multiplayer dress-up video game developed for the game platform Roblox created by the Dress to Impress Group and it was released in October 2023. By mid-2024, the game had become a viral phenomenon online even with non-Roblox players.
The game was conceived and created as a more fleshed-out version of an earlier Roblox game called Prison Life. [54] It accumulated over US$1 million in revenue during its first year of operation. [55] Jailbreak was featured in Roblox ' s Ready Player One event, based around the release of the film. [56]
Roblox Corporation has been ranked on Pocket Gamer.biz ' s top lists of mobile game developers, placing sixth in 2018, [30] eighth in 2019, [31] and sixth in 2020. [32] Fortune featured it as one of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, placing it sixteenth in 2019 and fortieth in 2021.
Gamefam was founded in 2019 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by Joe Ferencz, the current CEO.Ferencz was originally involved with bringing Hot Wheels into the Forza series and Rocket League, and while doing so, he was observing Roblox's success as a free-to-play video game platform. [6]
Sonic Speed Simulator [a] is a massively multiplayer online incremental platform game developed and published by Gamefam, under license and in association with Sega of America, [1] and serves as an official entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise on the gaming and game development platform Roblox.
Event January 3 Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson became the first person known to "beat" the NES version of Tetris by reaching its killscreen. [17] 8–11 Unity Technologies, Twitch, and Discord separately announced layoffs affecting 1,800, 500, and 170 jobs, respectively. [18] [19] [20] 22 Riot Games laid off about 530 staff. [21] 25
The game platform Roblox had an outage around October 2021, during their Chipotle Event. Many users thought it was because of the event, because it received massive reception, as users could get a free Chipotle burrito during it. The outage was Roblox's longest downtime, lasting 3 days. [10] [11] [12]