Roblox is moving chat to a platform-integrated specification that auto-enables in February 2027 and becomes mandatory in May 2027, alongside a 28-day discovery algorithm and a one-question publishing flow. It faces pending US litigation and a pending EU Very Large Online Platform designation, and its stock fell about 25% in a day after Q2 2026 earnings.
Roblox spent 2026 rebuilding how it polices users and how it hands games to them at the same time. Roblox Kids for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select for ages 9 to 15 launched in Japan and worldwide on June 17, a week after real-time multimodal moderation that reads whole scenes rather than single items. The safety numbers landed in September: 65,381 suspected child sexual exploitation reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2025, up from 24,522 in 2024, with two US senators investigating, at least 11 states suing or probing, and 177 consolidated federal lawsuits pending. The European Commission is preparing to designate Roblox a Very Large Online Platform after it passed 45 million monthly users in the EU.
Wall Street priced the cleanup. After Q2 2026 earnings the stock fell about 25% in a day, roughly $70 billion in value off its peak, with bookings growth at 8% and daily active users down from 152 million to 123 million.
Distribution changed next. At the September 11 Developers Conference, CEO David Baszucki outlined Roblox Everywhere: games shipped as standalone apps for mobile, PC and consoles without opening the Roblox app, browser play in Chrome within 2026, and offline single-player by mid-2027. October brought the plumbing: a discovery algorithm scoring Day 1, Day 2-7 and Day 8-28 separately instead of one 7-day window, a publishing questionnaire cut from up to 30 questions to one confirmation, and platform-integrated chat that strips script-level access to chat text.
Scale held. Roblox marked 20 years since its 2006 launch with more than 132 million daily users, and creators have earned over $5 billion since DevEx began in 2013, about $1.7 billion in the 12 months through June 30, 2026. Licensed IP keeps arriving: Pop Team Epic entered the license catalog on September 9, and Studio Mayflower's Monster Battles, with character design by Pokemon director Tetsuo Yajima, released August 5.
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Roblox opened an early access program for AnimatedImage, a feature set for 2D game development, on its official developer forum. Participants can import .ase files from the pixel art tool Aseprite into Roblox Studio in one click, keeping track names and per-frame durations. A new AnimationPlayer API controls playback, track switching, speed, and looping. Places using the features cannot yet be published publicly.
Roblox announced a new specification called Platform-integrated chat on its Developer Forum on October 22, moving chat delivery and display to the platform itself. Developers will lose the ability to read or save chat text via scripts, and custom chat screens must move to Roblox's TextChannelWindow, with custom commands migrating to TextChatCommand. The new spec is auto-enabled for all games in February 2027 with an opt-out, and mandatory from May 2027.
At the Roblox Developers Conference 2026, Roblox staff and outside creators explained how the platform's recommendation system now works. The old algorithm judged games on a single 7-day window after launch. The replacement measures Day 1, Day 2-7 and Day 8-28 separately, and adds two entry-point signals: how often a Home recommendation is actually played, and how quickly first-time players leave. Brookhaven RP, which caps lifetime spending under 70 dollars, is in the top 10 for revenue across Roblox.
Pandorio Games posted footage of Escape the Walls on X on October 14, showing a game where players punch walls to escape. The post drew 2.2 million views and the studio said a Steam store page would follow. On October 15 a similar game appeared on Roblox, one user posting that school had delayed it. Creators of the clone said calling it stealing is an exaggeration; both appear to have used the AI Claude.
Roblox announced on its Developer Forum a guided publishing flow that walks creators through going live, plus an Invite Early Testers feature. For games without age-restricted content, the maturity and compliance questionnaire that previously ran up to 30 questions is reduced to a single confirmation question. Both roll out to Creator Hub and Studio over the coming weeks.
Roblox marks 20 years since its 2006 service launch. More than 132 million people use it daily. The anniversary event "The Hunt: Roblox 20" runs from Thursday, September 17 to Monday, September 28, tracing the platform's history through user-created games. Portals cover 20 games, including Lumber Tycoon 2, Jailbreak, Adopt Me! and Grow a Garden, and clearing them unlocks Year Infinity plus 20 more games. A Classic app theme recreates old logos, colors and fonts.
Roblox announced Roblox Everywhere at its Developers Conference in the United States on September 11, a plan to let creators distribute their games as standalone apps for mobile, PC, and consoles while still running on Roblox's engine and infrastructure. The company says it will become available in the latter half of 2026.
At the Roblox Developers Conference 2026 in San Jose on September 11, CEO David Baszucki outlined "Roblox Everywhere," a plan letting creators ship their games as standalone apps for mobile, PC, and consoles without players opening the Roblox app. Browser play from the Experience Details Page in Chrome is planned within 2026, with other browsers to follow. Offline single-player arrives by mid-2027, and Quick Words, fixed in-game phrases screened in advance, roll out within the year.
King Records launched Pop Team Epic into the Roblox license catalog at noon on September 9. The registration lets Roblox creators plan, build, and apply to publish games and experiential content using the manga's characters and world. Bkub Okawa's four-panel manga has run in Takeshobo's Manga Life WIN, now Takecomi!, since August 2014. The listing is positioned as a new form of IP use beyond manga and anime development.
Kart racer Dream Racers has launched on Roblox, letting players build physics-based vehicles from text prompts through Roblox Cube, the platform's generative AI system. Developer STUDSY built the game around the technology, which Roblox expanded to 4D generation in February 2026. Roblox also announced eight named titles from its fall 2026 lineup, spanning FPS, football, survival horror, racing, farming, and RPG genres.
Roblox reported 65,381 suspected child sexual exploitation cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2025, up 2.7 times from 24,522 in 2024. Two US senators opened an investigation, at least 11 states have sued or begun probes, and 177 consolidated federal lawsuits are pending. The company responded with mandatory age verification for chat, the open-sourced Sentinel detection system, and age-tiered accounts. The Philippine government requested stronger protections. Japan, where Roblox is popular with elementary schoolers, faces the same discussion.
Roblox's stock plunged about 25% in a day after Q2 2026 earnings, losing roughly $70 billion in corporate value from its peak. Bookings growth slowed to 8% year-over-year, daily active users fell from 152 million to 123 million, and monthly paying users dropped to 27 million. The company withdrew its full-year outlook, triggering large-scale selling.
UCC Japan launched 'BECOME A COFFEE FARMER' on Roblox on August 5, 2026. The game lets players collect wild coffee, grow it on a farm, process it in a factory, and sell it. The company aims to familiarize young people with coffee and its production story.
Studio Mayflower released the turn-based player-versus-player game 'Monster Battles' on the Roblox platform on Wednesday, August 5. The game is free to play with optional in-game purchases. Players raise and organize unique monsters, then battle other players in turn-based combat that emphasizes reading the opponent's actions and combining each monster's abilities. The goal was to create a title that is simple enough for beginners but deep enough for core gamers to enjoy over a long period. Animation director Tetsuo Yajima, who directed the TV anime 'Pokemon XY' and the films 'Pokemon the Movie: Everyone's Story' and 'Pokemon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle,' participated in character design. In a statement, Yajima said he joined the project because he felt Studio Mayflower CEO Taisei Tachino shared his philosophy that creating something that contributes to children's happiness is what makes anime what it is. He described Roblox as a playground for children around the world and said he looks forward to seeing the characters leap beyond the platform. Studio Mayflower, which previously worked on the Roblox horror game 'The Inn' with 'Chainsaw Man' director Ryu Nakayama, aims to develop 'Monster Battles' into a global IP, considering future video adaptations and merchandising.
The European Commission is preparing to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as 'Very Large Online Platforms' under the EU's Digital Services Act, according to Bloomberg, which cites anonymous sources. The move follows both services surpassing 45 million monthly users within the EU, the threshold for the designation. If designated, the operating companies will face new obligations, including submitting transparency reports, implementing risk mitigation measures for harmful content, and paying annual fees to the Commission. The designation could come as early as August 2026. The DSA allows for fines of up to 6% of a company's global annual turnover for violations. This potential designation comes after the Commission fined AliExpress 550 million euros in July 2026, the largest penalty under the DSA to date, for insufficient action against illegal and dangerous products. As of 2023, 19 platforms and search engines, including Amazon, YouTube, and Google, have already been designated.
Kayak Co., Ltd. published six-year trends from its annual elementary school gaming survey on June 29, 2026. Minecraft leads at 31.8%, Roblox jumps to 2nd at 12.7%, and Fortnite drops from 1st to 5th at 4.9%. The data shows a shift from competitive battle games to creation and social play.
REDEE Inc. launched the REDEE Online School, a series of self-study video lessons for learning game development in Roblox using Lua. Each 30-minute video costs 500 yen with no monthly subscription. The first lesson is available now, with two more scheduled. A PC with Roblox Studio is required.
At the Nexon Developers Conference 26 (NDC26) in Korea, Roblox Korea representatives Song Ju-hyun and Ko Myung-jae presented the platform's latest metrics and strategy. Roblox now has 144 million daily active users, a 69% year-over-year increase, with Korean DAU up 47% and the number of Korean revenue-generating creators up 60%. Total creator payouts for 2025 are projected to reach $1.5 billion. The presentation detailed Roblox's creator ecosystem, including the Jumpstart program for beginners and the Incubator program for experienced studios. Ko Myung-jae noted that 84% of surveyed Korean creators used Roblox to showcase portfolios, and 70% of those affiliated with game studios said Roblox success helped in hiring. The latter half covered the IP Licensing Program, which allows IP owners to register their properties and receive a portion of revenue from UGC games. Examples cited include Netflix's "Squid Game," Sega's "Like a Dragon," and Kodansha's "Blue Lock," the latter of which surpassed 1 million concurrent users within three months of release on Roblox, with cumulative gameplay reaching 4.7 billion times and a community of 31 million users.
Roblox announced on June 17, 2026, the launch of two age-based account types, Roblox Kids (ages 5-8) and Roblox Select (ages 9-15), in Japan and worldwide. The accounts apply automatic protective settings, expanded parental controls, and a three-tier content check system, with accounts automatically upgrading as the child ages.
Roblox has introduced a real-time multimodal moderation system that evaluates entire scenes-including 3D objects, avatars, and text-simultaneously, rather than reviewing individual items separately. The system is designed to catch violations that occur only when harmless elements are combined, such as creating inappropriate figures or outfits. Naren Koneru, head of Trust & Safety Engineering, explained the mechanism in an interview with 4Gamer.