Roblox is set to have its best year ever by a wide margin, with its developer community expected to earn $250 million in 2020 alone and its active player count reaching a new record high. Roblox players are free to develop and even sell their own games made within the Roblox Studio creator, sometimes finding runaway success. That was the case recently when a game made in Roblox called Adopt Me! announced that it was adding Pet Rocks and gained over 680,000 concurrent players, later reaching more than 1.6 million concurrent play

Roblox creator DreamCraft decided to run an April Fools' Day joke update themselves this year, offering players of Adopt Me! a free temporary pet rock that could be acquired in the game. According to PC Gamer , this anecdote unexpectedly resulted in Adopt Me! having over 680,000 concurrent players. These numbers are almost triple what the current most popular game on Steam, the RPG Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, had on the same day, with that game logging roughly 230,000 concurrent players. Those who decided to obtain their free new pet were humorously treated to a pet rock with the visuals of a toddler’s drawing. Adopt Me! has had over 5.3 billion visits to the game since its creation in 2017, which is no surprise considering Roblox has over 100 million active users . Check out a video of the rock in action below, as shared by the game's official Twitter acco

For the uninitiated, Roblox is less of a traditional game and more of a creation tool along similar lines as products like RPG Maker , Little Big Planet , and the recently released Super Mario Maker 2 . Using Roblox Studio , players can create, modify, and sell their own unique games, experiences, and items, with the current number of such totaling upwards of 69 million games from over 2 million different developers. Many of the games created in Roblox have gone on to become quite popular, including Jailbreak and Welcome to Bloxburg, and most are geared toward child

The work Roblox Corporation has done to build its developer community and creators make money is clearly paying off. In a press release, roblox story guide|https://robloxrealm.com/ Corporation announced today that its community creators are on track to make a collective $250 million in 2020 alone. That’s more than double the $110 million that Roblox developers earned in 2019. Roblox Corporation also says that its new Premium payout system netted developers $2 million just in June. The massive increase in payouts for creators is at least partially due to an explosion in players. Roblox now has 150 million monthly active users, a 50 percent increase over what it had this time last y

Now, Roblox developer Roblox Corporation says it's offering players free in-game cosmetic items for members of the newly dubbed Prime Gaming service. Players can pick up one free cosmetic item each month, now through March of next year. The inaugural in-game item for this month is the Banandolier accessory, which is of course an incredibly useful bandolier for holding multiple bananas at once. Prime Gaming is included with Amazon Prime, which costs $12.99 per mo

Beginning this month, Roblox is offering players one free exclusive in-game item per month through Amazon Prime Gaming . Amazon rebranded its previous Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming this month, but it will continue to offer the same types of free in-game bonuses for subscribers as before. Amazon says it will offer even more incentives to subscribers than bef

One day after Roblox 's stock hit the market, and things are looking up. The Roblox stock was reported to go public a couple of weeks ago, but it finally opened its doors to the public this afternoon. Many had expected the stock to go live as the market opened at 9:30 AM ET or at noon, but it didn't go live until much later in the aftern

Fortnite V-Bucks mentions on an official government website prompted in-game currency tax fears, but the IRS has decided not to tax virtual currencies - for now. Since virtual currencies like V-Bucks and Roblox Robux have actual cash value, the IRS had decided it wants a piece of the action - especially from those who receive said virtual currencies as part of their jobs. Its website recently spurred controversy when the taxman said it wanted a piece of every V-Buck purcha

Since its release in 2006, Roblox has quietly amassed a massive and dedicated group of fans. Roblox serves as both a game creation tool and a platform for playing those creations, not unlike the more recently released Dreams for PlayStation 4. Roblox ’s creation engine is incredibly versatile, letting its community of developers create a huge variety of experiences and even monetize them. The most popular Roblox creations can reach more than 1 million concurrent players, and that translates to earnings for their creators. In 2020 alone, the members of Roblox ’s developer community are expected to collectively rake in more than $250 million for their in-game creations, more than doubling the total from last y